City: Erwin
BROWN, Albert R., banker; born Knox Co., Tenn., July 7, 1863; son of William L. and Nancy C. BROWN; paternal grandparents John and Polly (Gossett) BROWN, maternal grandparents Benjamin and Martha (Cusic) BROWN; received common school education; married Tuppy BURLESON July 19, 1893; Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner; father killed on steamboat Sultana in 1865, when the subject of this sketch was two years of age, was taken to the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, Washington, D. C., in 1867, where he remained seven years; at the age of thirteen worked in a drug store, and at fifteen entered the hardware business in the employ of W. W. Woodruff & Co., Knoxville, remained with this firm fifteen years, seven years of which were spent as traveling salesman; opened business at Erwin, Tenn., in 1893; Republican (Prohibition); former Alderman and former Mayor of Erwin, president of the First Nat. Bank, Erwin, and Unicoi Banking & Trust Co., Erwin Water Co., Erwin Mfg. Co., and vice-president of Unicoi Telephone Co. and president Unaka Academy, Erwin, Tenn., and trustee of Carson and Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn.; Deacon in Baptist church.
