Harris Brown, clerk of the Sumner County Court, was born in said county in 1858. He is one of four (three living) children born to William B. and M. J. (Harris) Brown. Both parents were of English descent and natives of Sumner County, born in 1825 and 1838 respectively. The father was an agriculturalist. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Second Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, Bennett's brigade, and was elected orderly sergeant. At the battle of Harrisburg, Miss., in 1863, he received a wound in the leg, from the effects of which he died a few days later. In 1883 his widow married the Hon. W. G. Pond, an ex-member of the State Legislature. The grandfather of subject, George T. Brown, was a native of Albemarle County, Va. He came to Sumner County at an early day, and was magistrate of the First District for thirty years. Harris Brown received an excellent education at the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville. He graduated in 1877, with the highest honors of his class; also of the military department, being captain of Company A, the banner company of the school. He returned to his native home and taught school two years. In 1879 he became bookkeeper for C. Levy & Bro., Gallatin, remaining with them two years. In 1881, in partnership with his brother-in-law, J. H. Butler, he established a grocery store, continuing in the business fifteen months. From 1883 to 1885 he clerked for C. Levy & Bro. In August, 1886, he was elected to his present position by a majority of 206 over two of Sumner County's strongest men. April 29, 1881, he married Miss Carrie H., daughter of John A. Patterson. Mrs. Brown was born in Sumner County, in 1859, and is the mother of two children: John P. and William T. Capt. Brown is a man of fine morals, a worthy, respected citizen. He is a stanch Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for Hancock in 1880.

[TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This biography was alphabetized with the H's instead of with the B's.]