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Andrew Jackson Brown
Vol. 3, Pages 1914-1915

     Andrew Jackson Brown, of Wewoka, has gained as much distinction in commercial
affairs as his brother, John F. Brown, in the public life of the Seminole Nation.  As a
matter of fact, however, Andrew J. Brown and John F. Brown have for many years been
closely associated in business affairs, and these two brothers, with Mr. C. L. Long, own
and control the two largest business institutions at Wewoka-the Wewoka Trading
Company and the Wewoka Realty & Trust Company, which is incorporated with a
capital of $100,000.

     On other pages will be found a record of John F. Brown, the principal chief of the
Seminole Nation.  Governor Brown is about thirteen years older than Andrew Jackson
Brown, who was born at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, March 3, 1856.  He was fifth in a family
of four sons and three daughters, and their parents were Dr. John F. and Lucy
(Graybeard) Brown.  Doctor Brown was a distinguished character in old Indian Territory
and some of the more important details of the family record will be found in the sketch of
Governor Brown.

     When Andrew J. Brown was in infant his parents moved to that section of Indian
Territory between Muskogee and the old Creek agency, and in 1866 when he was ten
years of age they moved to the old Seminole Agency in Pottawatomie County.  He
acquired his education by attending the day schools operated by the Government, was
also a student at Sasakwa, the town founded by his brother, Governor Brown, and in 1873
completed a course in the Jones Commercial College at St. Louis.

     He then returned to Indian Territory and from 1874 to 1880 took an active part in the
management of the store at Sasakwa, operated under the name of John F. Brown &
Brother.  Andrew J. Brown has been a leader in business affairs at Wewoka since 1880.
At that time there was one store and a blacksmith shop comprising all the commercial
activities of the little village.  Soon afterward C. L. Long entered the partnership, and for
a number of years the firm conducted two stores, one at Wewoka and the other at
Sasakwa.  Later they organized the Wewoka trading Company, and the store at Sasakwa
was turned over to Governor Brown, who, however, still continued an active member of
the partnership at Wewoka.  The Wewoka Trading Company, not incorporated, operates
the largest general department store in Seminole County and they also built the largest
business house in the town, a two-story brick 90 by 100 feet, in addition to the old store,
which occupies ground 80 by 40 feet.  In this store are employed from six to twelve
persons, and the trade extends all over Seminole County.  The management of the
business is in the hands of Andrew J. Brown and Mr. Long.

     these three parties also own all the stock in the Wewoka Realty & Trust Company, of
which Andrew J. Brown is president, John F. Brown vice president, and Mr. Long
secretary and treasurer.  Mr. Brown and family also have allotments of land in Seminole
County and the control extensive stock and farming interests.

     Andrew J. Brown for the last twenty years has been treasurer of the Seminole Nation,
though that office since statehood has been of nominal importance only.  For two terms,
eight years, he was also superintendent of tribal schools.  Like his brother, Governor
Brown, he is a minister of the Gospel, of the Baptist faith, and was active in preaching
and disseminating the Gospel truths for about fifteen yers.  He is pastor of the Buckeye
Baptist Church on Little River.  He was also one of the organizers and a leader in the
building of that church.

     In 1879 he married Miss Mamie Jacobs, who was born near Eufaula in 1861m a
daughter of Frank Jacobs.  Mrs. Brown is a half-blood Creek.  They had one child,
Clarence W. Brown, who was born January 24, 1880, and died June 9, 1911.  This son
married Rebecca Bell, and at his death he left three children who have their home with
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Brown.  Their names are Lucy, Ruth and John.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Norma Capehart March 5, 2003.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).