Men of America, a Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries
Edited by John W. Leonard
Published by L. R. Hamersley & Company, New York City. 1908

Page 313, Calvin Brown

Professor of Romance languages; born in Obion County, Tennessee, February 13, 1866; son of Calvin S. Brown and Margaret (Martin) Brown, and a descendant of Virginia stock. He was graduated from high school in Obion County, Tennessee; from Vanderbilt University; studied at the University of Paris, France, and the University of Leipzig, Germany; and he received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has held chairs in Vanderbilt University, the University of Missouri, the University of Colorado, and the University of Mississipi; and he has been professor of Romance languages in the University of Mississippi since 1905. He has traveled extensively in the United States, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, Italy, Greece, Asia, Russia, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Canada. He is an Independent Democrat in politics. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Modern Language Association of America, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His favorite recreations are geologizing, botanizing and collecting. He is editor of: the Later English Drama, and of Tennyson’s Poems. He married at West Point, Georgia, in 1905, Maud Morrow, of Georgia, formerly professor of Greek and Latin in the Agnes Scott College at Atlanta, Georgia, and they have a daughter, Edith Brown, born in 1906. Residence and postoffice: University, Mississippi. Express address: Oxford, Mississippi.

1880 Census, Obion County, Tennessee
14th Civil District, ED: 111, hw-page #5, stamped page #141A
Lines 12-23; Enum-Dwelling #39; Enum-Family #40
BROWN, Calvin S. age-53, Farmer, TN-VA-VA
“, Mary, age-22, dau, Keeping House, TN-TN-TN
“, Nancy, age-20, dau, at home, attended-school, TN-TN-TN
“, William, age-18, son, works on farm, attended-school, TN-TN-TN
“, Charles, age 17, son, works on farm, attended-school, TN-TN-TN
“, Calvin, age 14, son, works on farm, attended-school, TN-TN-TN
“, Robert, age 11, son, works on farm, attended-school, TN-TN-TN
“, Margaret, age 8, dau, attended school, TN-TN-TN
“, Ruth, age 4, dau, at home, TN-TN-TN
CARHILL, John, age 55, Hierland, works on farm, IRE-IRE-IRE
KELLEY, Jack, age-40, Hierland, works on farm, KY
RAY, John, age-25, Hierland, works on farm, TN-TN-TN