{"id":206,"date":"2010-01-17T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/wake\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2015-03-14T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T18:13:14","slug":"bio-joseph-gill-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/biographies\/bio-joseph-gill-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio: Joseph Gill Brown (1854-1927)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrownJosephGill\"<\/a>The subject of this sketch is a \u00a0native of Raleigh, born November 5, 1854, and is the son of Henry J. and Lydia (Lane) Brown<\/strong>. \u00a0 He comes of distinguished colonial and early State ancestry, being the great-grandson of Joel Lane, the original owner of the site of the capital city, at whose house in Bloomsbury (now included in the city) the Revolutionary Committee of Safety met. \u00a0He is also descended from Col. Needham Bryant<\/strong>, of Johnston County, who was a representative in the Provincial Congress and during the Revolutionary was a staunch patriot.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brown was educated at Lovejoy Academy, in Raleigh, and at Trinity College when that prince among great educators, Dr. Braxton Craven<\/strong>, took boys and made men of them. \u00a0 Before he was of age young Joseph Brown secured a subordinate position in the Citizens National Bank, in Raleigh, and within a few years, through rapid promotion, he rose to the head of this important financial institution. \u00a0Under his management the business of the bank has expanded wonderfully. \u00a0In ten years the deposits increased from $333,000 to $925,000 and the resources nearly trebled.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brown has been an active worker in the Methodist Church. \u00a0He has been a member of Edenton Street Sunday School half a century. \u00a0It was an appropriate celebration of the fiftieth year of his connection with the school that its magnificent new building was completed and opened in the spring of 1912. \u00a0 He has been a delegate to the North Carolina Conference regularly for many years, and has also been a delegate to several sessions of the General Conference. \u00a0He has been superintendent of his home Sunday school twelve years, and is chairman of the board of church stewards. \u00a0He is a trustee and treasurer of the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brown is prominent in the membership of the National Bankers Association. \u00a0He has been grand master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. \u00a0 In civic capacities he has served as alderman and treasurer of the city of Raleigh.<\/p>\n

In 1881, Mr. Brown married Miss Alice<\/strong>, daughter of Rev. L.S. Burkhead<\/strong>, D.D., a prominent minister of the M.E. Church, South. \u00a0He has two sons and two daughters.<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/span><\/p>\n