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2932 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSalso at Metter and at Garfleld, completing his school year after he had beenadmitted to the bar. This ceremony took place in 1909, when he received hisadmission papers from Hon. B. T. Rawlings, of Sandersville.In 1910 Mr. Brown entered upon the practice of law at Swainsboro, wherehe has ever since continued, having now so widely extended a practice, including the United States courts, that he numbers many clients not only in hisown, tie Middle Circuit, but in the Oconee, Dublin, Atlantic and Toombs circuits, comprising fourteen or more counties in Southern Georgia. His localconnections are large and he is attorney for the Board of Roads and Revenue,of Emanuel County, having served in this capacity for the past two years,and is attorney for the Farmers and Merchants Bank, of Nunez, Georgia. Hisbusiness interests are entirely centered in the practice of his profession, butMr. Brown is too intelligent and too public spirited to ever have let his private concerns blind him to his conceptions of public duty. Hence he hasbeen active in explaining the principles of the democratic party in manycampaigns, this party from his maturity having had his allegiance, and insupport, of such sterling candidates for office as Hoke Smith and WoodrowWilson, has made many eloquent speeches.On May 27, 1908, at Stillmore, Georgia, Mr. Brown was married to MissWillie C. Dudley, who was born at Riddleville, Georgia, a daughter of CharlesH. and Elmira (Hyman) Dudley. The father of Mrs. Brown is deceased butthe mother lives at Swainsboro. Mrs. Brown is a graduate of Bessie TiftCollege, at Forsyth, Georgia. She is gifted in music and prior to her marriage taught classes in this art. She takes a leading part in the city's pleasantsocial life. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have three children: Thomas N., Jr., whowas born July 25, 1911; William Dudley, who was born June 8, 1913; andCarmen Elmira, who was born July 30, 1915.During the lifetime of his beloved mother, Mr. Brown entertained noproject of establishing a domestic hearth of his own, bestowing upon thattenderly idolized parent the love which he has since, in such large measure,given his own wife and children, his home circle rounding out for him thesum of human happiness. He is a man of kind and sympathetic nature,admired and beloved by his own kindred, his elder brother reading law underhis careful supervision, and during his long'period as a school teacher, notonly wisely instructed but through genuine interest and willing help, gainedthe affection of his pupils, many of whom are in positions of importance todayand entertain for him their old schoolday regard. Perhaps no children havea more delightful companion and playmate than the Brown three, Mr. Brownbelieving in this close association and thereby exerting an influence that itwill take strenuous worldly lures in the future to dissipate. In this beautifulconception of family life, Mrs. Brown is in perfect accord with him.. For twelve years Mr. Brown was a leading member of the MissionaryBaptist Clmrch at Swainsboro and for eight years he taught a Sunday schoolclass, a work he particularly enjoyed. A man of wide and varied reading,never having ceased being a student, Mr. Brown naturally became interestedin all sound literature, devoting hours to books and magazines of practicalvalue. Thus was brought to his attention one of the most remarkable religiousrevelations of modern times, a treatise dealing with what has become knownthe civilized world over as Christian Science. Accustomed as a lawyer toponder and weigh evidence, he studied further and became convinced of thetruth of many of the claims made for this new and comforting belief, and itwas while seeking still further light that very definite proof of its efficacycame under his immediate observation.In 1914 his brother, to whom he is bound in the warmest of fraternal ties,became dangerously ill and noted physicians, from the profundity of theirmedical knowledge, diagnosed his alarming malady as incurable tuberculosis.Mr. Brown, remembering the remarkable cures that he had heard of as the