Atlanta Constitution - 17 May 1942
George Brown, Savings Bank President, Dies
George Marion Brown, 77, last survivor of Georgia's Civil War Governor Joseph Brown and president of the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company, died yesterday at his residence, 40 Muscogee avenue.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. The Rev M Ashby Jones and the Rev Ryland Knight will officiate. Burial will be in West View cemetery.
Mr Brown was born in the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville. He organized the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company in 1899. He was president of the Joseph E Brown Company from 1906; organized and was first president of the Miller Union Stock Yards of Atlanta, southeastern agent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad and assistant traffic manager from 1885 to 1892.
In 1900 Mr Brown became a member of the board, Sinking Fund Commission, of the City of Atlanta, a position which he held for four years.
Interested in educational advancement, Mr Brown established the Mary Brown Fund at Vassar College, the Corrie Hoyt Brown Fund at the Georgia State College for Women, and the Elizabeth Grisham Brown Benevolent Fund and the Sally Eugenia Brown Fund of the Ponce de Leon Avenue Baptist church in Atlanta, a church which he himself organized in his own home, at 584 Peachtree street.
A pension fund for employes and officers of the Georgi Savings Bank and Trust Company was organized by Mr Brown. The fund carries its originator's name.
Mr Brown's church activities extend far beyond his organization of the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. He was chairman of the board of deacons of that church for 15 years, trustee of the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home and the Georgia Baptist hospital, and moderator of the Atlanta Association of Baptist Churches for two years.
Educated at the University of Georgia, Mr Brown was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Georgia Historical Society, the American Forestry Association, the Capital City Club and the Chi Phi social fraternity. His wife was the late Mrs Elizabeth Grisham Brown. [Wife's name is incorrect. That was his mother's name. His wife was Cornelia "Carrie" Hoyt whom he married on 10 Feb 1887 in Fulton Co GA.]
He is survived by one daughter, Miss Corrie Hoyt Brown; two grandchildren, Marion Brown III, and Matt Briggs Brown, and one great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Grisham Brown.
George Brown, Savings Bank President, Dies
George Marion Brown, 77, last survivor of Georgia's Civil War Governor Joseph Brown and president of the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company, died yesterday at his residence, 40 Muscogee avenue.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. The Rev M Ashby Jones and the Rev Ryland Knight will officiate. Burial will be in West View cemetery.
Mr Brown was born in the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville. He organized the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company in 1899. He was president of the Joseph E Brown Company from 1906; organized and was first president of the Miller Union Stock Yards of Atlanta, southeastern agent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad and assistant traffic manager from 1885 to 1892.
In 1900 Mr Brown became a member of the board, Sinking Fund Commission, of the City of Atlanta, a position which he held for four years.
Interested in educational advancement, Mr Brown established the Mary Brown Fund at Vassar College, the Corrie Hoyt Brown Fund at the Georgia State College for Women, and the Elizabeth Grisham Brown Benevolent Fund and the Sally Eugenia Brown Fund of the Ponce de Leon Avenue Baptist church in Atlanta, a church which he himself organized in his own home, at 584 Peachtree street.
A pension fund for employes and officers of the Georgi Savings Bank and Trust Company was organized by Mr Brown. The fund carries its originator's name.
Mr Brown's church activities extend far beyond his organization of the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. He was chairman of the board of deacons of that church for 15 years, trustee of the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home and the Georgia Baptist hospital, and moderator of the Atlanta Association of Baptist Churches for two years.
Educated at the University of Georgia, Mr Brown was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Georgia Historical Society, the American Forestry Association, the Capital City Club and the Chi Phi social fraternity. His wife was the late Mrs Elizabeth Grisham Brown. [Wife's name is incorrect. That was his mother's name. His wife was Cornelia "Carrie" Hoyt whom he married on 10 Feb 1887 in Fulton Co GA.]
He is survived by one daughter, Miss Corrie Hoyt Brown; two grandchildren, Marion Brown III, and Matt Briggs Brown, and one great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Grisham Brown.
Atlanta Constitution - 17 May 1942
George Brown, Savings Bank President, Dies
George Marion Brown, 77, last survivor of Georgia's Civil War Governor Joseph Brown and president of the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company, died yesterday at his residence, 40 Muscogee avenue.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. The Rev M Ashby Jones and the Rev Ryland Knight will officiate. Burial will be in West View cemetery.
Mr Brown was born in the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville. He organized the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company in 1899. He was president of the Joseph E Brown Company from 1906; organized and was first president of the Miller Union Stock Yards of Atlanta, southeastern agent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad and assistant traffic manager from 1885 to 1892.
In 1900 Mr Brown became a member of the board, Sinking Fund Commission, of the City of Atlanta, a position which he held for four years.
Interested in educational advancement, Mr Brown established the Mary Brown Fund at Vassar College, the Corrie Hoyt Brown Fund at the Georgia State College for Women, and the Elizabeth Grisham Brown Benevolent Fund and the Sally Eugenia Brown Fund of the Ponce de Leon Avenue Baptist church in Atlanta, a church which he himself organized in his own home, at 584 Peachtree street.
A pension fund for employes and officers of the Georgi Savings Bank and Trust Company was organized by Mr Brown. The fund carries its originator's name.
Mr Brown's church activities extend far beyond his organization of the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. He was chairman of the board of deacons of that church for 15 years, trustee of the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home and the Georgia Baptist hospital, and moderator of the Atlanta Association of Baptist Churches for two years.
Educated at the University of Georgia, Mr Brown was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Georgia Historical Society, the American Forestry Association, the Capital City Club and the Chi Phi social fraternity. His wife was the late Mrs Elizabeth Grisham Brown. [Wife's name is incorrect. That was his mother's name. His wife was Cornelia "Carrie" Hoyt whom he married on 10 Feb 1887 in Fulton Co GA.]
He is survived by one daughter, Miss Corrie Hoyt Brown; two grandchildren, Marion Brown III, and Matt Briggs Brown, and one great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Grisham Brown.
George Brown, Savings Bank President, Dies
George Marion Brown, 77, last survivor of Georgia's Civil War Governor Joseph Brown and president of the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company, died yesterday at his residence, 40 Muscogee avenue.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. The Rev M Ashby Jones and the Rev Ryland Knight will officiate. Burial will be in West View cemetery.
Mr Brown was born in the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville. He organized the Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company in 1899. He was president of the Joseph E Brown Company from 1906; organized and was first president of the Miller Union Stock Yards of Atlanta, southeastern agent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad and assistant traffic manager from 1885 to 1892.
In 1900 Mr Brown became a member of the board, Sinking Fund Commission, of the City of Atlanta, a position which he held for four years.
Interested in educational advancement, Mr Brown established the Mary Brown Fund at Vassar College, the Corrie Hoyt Brown Fund at the Georgia State College for Women, and the Elizabeth Grisham Brown Benevolent Fund and the Sally Eugenia Brown Fund of the Ponce de Leon Avenue Baptist church in Atlanta, a church which he himself organized in his own home, at 584 Peachtree street.
A pension fund for employes and officers of the Georgi Savings Bank and Trust Company was organized by Mr Brown. The fund carries its originator's name.
Mr Brown's church activities extend far beyond his organization of the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist church. He was chairman of the board of deacons of that church for 15 years, trustee of the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home and the Georgia Baptist hospital, and moderator of the Atlanta Association of Baptist Churches for two years.
Educated at the University of Georgia, Mr Brown was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Georgia Historical Society, the American Forestry Association, the Capital City Club and the Chi Phi social fraternity. His wife was the late Mrs Elizabeth Grisham Brown. [Wife's name is incorrect. That was his mother's name. His wife was Cornelia "Carrie" Hoyt whom he married on 10 Feb 1887 in Fulton Co GA.]
He is survived by one daughter, Miss Corrie Hoyt Brown; two grandchildren, Marion Brown III, and Matt Briggs Brown, and one great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Grisham Brown.
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