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Title: A history of Texas and Texans
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884 Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Subjects: Texas -- History Texas -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Irish beauty in her time. Both grandfathers were
planters and slave holders and men of more than ordinary
ability and influence. Judge Brown's father was at one
time commonwealth attorney in Virginia and for years
served as an elder in the Presbyterian church. He was
a forceful and able man and did much to impress his
personality on his community. Of the six children of
Robert M. Brown and wife, Thomas L. and Alfred L.
are now deceased. The living, besides Judge Brown, are:
Mrs. Collin Stokes, a widow, living at Covington, Vir-
ginia; A. D. Brown of Amhurst county, Virginia, and
Benjamin W., a surgeon in the United States Marine
Hospital and Health Service, who spent two years in
China and now has charge of the United States Station
at Yokohama, Japan. Judge Brown comes of a long-
lived family. His father lived to be eighty-two and
his mother died at the age of ninety-one years, she
passing away in January, 1914. William P. Gorsuch, a
son of his sister by a former marriage, is now professor
of oratory in the University of Chicago.
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TEXAS AND TEXANS 1599

Robert Meriwether Brown when a boy attended school
at Higginbotham Academy until he was fifteen years old.
Then, like many other Virginia boys, his youth was in-
terrupted by the outbreak of the great war between
the states and he was at once thrown into the most
serious responsibilities of existence. At the age of six-
teen he volunteered in Company E of the Second Virginia
Cavalry, under General Mumpford and also served under
Fitzhugh Lee and under Judge J. E. B. Stuart, and
fought all through the war in the army of Northern
Virginia. Altogether his army record comprises twenty-
one engagements and among these he fought at Cold
Harbor, the Wilderness, Seven Pines and at Yellow
Tavern. At Yellow Tavern a bullet struck him in the
head and for three months he lay critically ill in a
hospital. How near he came to being a sacrifice to
the cause of the south is indicated by the deep scar
which still plows his forehead.
At the close of the war Mr. Brown returned home,
still a young man, though a veteran soldier, and took

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