Susan Hallock

   Goodspeed's Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas 1891 Pope Co

D C Brown, merchant of Dover, Ark. In the preparation of this brief outline
of the life history of one of the most worthy residents of Pope County
appear facts which are greatly to his credit. His intelligence, enterprise,
integrity as well as many other qualities, have acquired for him a popularity
not derived from any factitious circumstances, but a permanent and
spontaneous tribute to his merit. He was born in Randolph Co NC April 12
1837 and with his father Samuel Brown a mechanic came to Arkansas when five
years of age and as he was compelled to labor on a farm in his youth he
received only the advantages of the common schools near his home. At the
age of twenty-one years he began doing business for himself entering the
general mercantile store of D James as a clerk and after remaining there
two years he severed his connection with this establishment and went to
Clarksville where he entered the store of B F Hershey two years also being
spent there, at the end of which time he had been elected sheriff of Pope
County and in August 1860 gave up his clerkship and entered upon his
duties as a public official which position he filled in a highly satisfactory
manner for two years. He then resigned his office to enter the Confederate
Army as first lieutenant of Company A, Williamson's Battalion of Arkansas
Volunteers and was sent to Mississippi where in the fall of 1862 he was
discharged on account of disability resulting from sickness. In December
of the same year he had recovered sufficiently to re-enlist and was
elected first lieutenant of Company A, Hill's regiment Arkansas Cavalry
and was immediately placed on active service and was in the battles of
Pine Bluff, Poison Springs, Mark's Mills, and was with Price on his raid
in Missouri in 1864. While on that raid near Dover he was promoted to the
rank of Captain after which he took part in the battles of Pilot Knob,
Booneville, Jefferson City, Independence, Fayetteville, afterward going
to Camp Monroe where they remained for some time. They were dismounted
near Spring Hill Ark and were assigned to duty in Gen Roan's infantry
regiment and were marched to Camp Magruder, La thence to Shreveport and
afterward to Marshall, Texas where they were discharged. Mr Brown then
returned home to find his property scattered and everything laid waste.
After teaching a three month term of school on Big Piney Creek he returned
to Dover and entered into partnership with D P West in the merchangile
business, but this partnership was dissolved by mutual consent after a
few years. Since that time Mr Brown has been in business alone. Although he
began with a very small capital at the close of the war he has accumulated
a good property and is the owner of a tract of land comprising eighty acres
lying near the town. He was married on January 10, 1858 to Miss R E Hagins
of Dover but she and their infant child died while Mr Brown was in the
Army. He was remarried on February 7, 1866 to Mrs A J Rankin of Dover
and one child, a daughter named Marie blessed this union she being now
the wife of J A Miller of Russellville. Mr Brown and his wife are
members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in which
he holds the office of Sunday School Superintendent. He is chaplain in
the A F & A M lodge of Dover, is a Democrat politically, and at all times
give liberally of his means in the support of worthy enterprises.