My Genealogy Hound

Fred E. Brown is a prosperous general merchant of Des Arc, Ark., and by his superior business qualities has done much to advance the reputation which the county now enjoys as a commercial center. He was born in Choctaw County, Miss., August 27, 1858, and is a son of A. J. and Elizabeth (House) Brown, who were born, reared and married in Alabama, and removed to Arkansas in 1869, settling on a farm near Hickory Plains, where they are now residing. Fred E. Brown grew to manhood in Prairie County, and was educated in the schools of Des Arc and in a commercial college at Little Rock. He began the battle of life for himself as a clerk in Des Arc in 1879, but at the end of a few years he became a traveling salesman for a St. Louis and Memphis wholesale house and continued this occupation until 1888, when he purchased a stock of goods and engaged in business for himself. His store is now well established and his stock of goods is large and well selected, and as he possesses good judgment, business ability and efficiency, his efforts are meeting with well deserved success, and his outlook for the future is bright and promising. He was married in December, 1882, to Miss Ada Morrell, a daughter of J. C. Morrell, who was one of the early settlers of the State, and who established and edited the Des Arc Citizen for a number of years. Mrs. Brown was born, reared and educated in Prairie County, and is, the mother of one child, Charles Frederick. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.