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SENATOR JOSEPH E. BROWN, 



Born in old Pendleton District, S. C; married Miss Elizabeth Greshain, who was born at 

 old Pendleton; made the law his profession. Elected to the Georgia Senate, next Gov- 

 ernor of Georgia for four consecutive terms. From that position he went to a Federal 

 prison, next Chief Justice of Georgia. Elected President of the Western and Atlantic 

 Railroad, and to the United States Senate. Senator Brown gave fifty thousand dollars to 

 the education of the poor young men of Georgia, and fifty thousand dollars to the Baptist 

 Theological beminary of the South ; and has, in his day, wielded more power in Georgia 

 than any other man alive or dead. 



