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Peyton R. Brown, M. D. Source: Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Atlanta: Southern Historical Publishing, 1907. Vol. III. Pages 103-104.Brown,
Peyton R., M. D.,
physician and surgeon, is engaged in the active practice of his
profession in Clay county, being one of the leading practitioners
of that part of the State. Dr. Brown was born near Crystal Springs,
Copiah county, Miss., on Aug. 27, 1856, and is a son of Dr. William
J. and Armenta (Shamburger) Brown, the former native of Florida
and the latter of Mississippi. Dr. William J. Brown was a physician
of high attainments and was engaged in practice in Mississippi
at the outbreak of the Civil war. He forthwith enlisted in the
Confederate service, becoming surgeon in the Forty-first infantry,
with which he remained until his death, which occurred in Vicksburg,
Miss., in 1862. He was a lineal descendant of that historic character,
Commodore Perry, on the maternal side. His wife, the mother of
the subject of this review, died Aug. 14, 1902, aged sixty-eight
years. Dr. Peyton R. Brown completed the curriculum of the common
schools and then entered Vanderbilt university, at Nashville,
Tenn., where he was a student in the literary department for
a short time, after which he entered the medical department of
the same institution and was graduated as a member of the class
of 1885, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1880 he initiated
the active practice of his profession in his home county, Copiah,
and in 1882 he removed to Liddell, Montgomery county, where he
was engaged in practice until 1891, after which he was for two
years successfully established in practice at Eupora, Webster
county, whence he came to West Point in February, 1893. There
his success has been excellent and he has a representative clientage,
while he stands high in the esteem of his professional confreres.
He is a member of the American medical association, the Mississippi
State medical association and the Oktibbeha & Clay county
medical association, of which last mentioned he is president.
His political allegiance is given to the Democracy, and he is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, Woodmen of the World, and
Knights of Honor. Himself and wife are members of the Baptist
church. On Dec. 12, 1882, Dr. Brown was united in marriage to
Miss Drusilla E. Ellis, daughter of Elijah and Rhoda (Thrailkill)
Ellis, of Montgomery county, and the children of this union are
five in number, namely: Alma, William J. Howard, Mabel, Peyton
and Addie. Howard is a practicing physician, having passed the
examination before the State board before reaching his twenty-first
year. Alma graduated at the Industrial institute and college
at Columbus, in the musical department in 1903, being a member
of the first class in music. She is now teaching in Winona. |
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