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ISAAC NEWTON BROWN, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1177-1178

A quarter century of continuous practice is sufficient to establish
a claim as one of the pioneer physicians of the new State of
Oklahoma. Doctor Brown, who since 1905 has been located at Davis, and
is now president of the Murray County Medical Society, is a physician
and surgeon of more than thirty years, and his work has been in old
Indian Territory of Oklahoma since 1890, when he located at Ardmore.
He was one of the Leading physicians of that city until his removal
to Davis in 1905.

Representing an old southern family, Doctor Brown was born in Selma,
Alabama, October 14, 1860. Both his father and grandfather had
important military records. His grandfather, Hitson BROWN, was a
native of Ireland, and on coming to America settled in Alabama. In
1837 he went to Texas, during the early days of the republic, and
afterwards served as a soldier in the Mexican war. When he died at
Big Sand, Texas, in 1871, he was a little past a century in age. His
career had been one of great activities and at one time he owned a
large plantation and was an extensive stock raiser.

B. W. Brown, father of Doctor Brown, was born in the vicinity of
Selma, Alabama, in 1828. He grew up in his native state and was a
young man of recognized prominence in the community when the Civil
war broke out. He became a captain in the First Alabama Regiment of
Infantry and went through the entire war. During the first battle of
Bull Run, while leading his company, he had seven bullet holes shot
in his hat and his sabre was shot from his hand, but he sustained no
bodily injuries. He also participated in the entire three days'
battle at Gettysburg. In 1865, soon after the close of the war,
Captain Brown removed to Longview, Gregg County, Texas, and lived
there until his death in 1901. He was elected a representative to the
first Texas Legislature after the war, and sat in that body for
thirteen successive terms. During Governor Ireland's administration
he was superintendent of the state penitentiary. His chief business
was as a planter and rancher, and he owned several farms in Texas. He
was also a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church South and
naturally was identified with the democratic party. He also attained
thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry. Captain Brown married
Nancy COX, who was born in Alabama in 1835 and died at Longview
Texas, in 1908. Their children were: Mary, who married Tom
STINCHCOMB, a Texas farmer, and now deceased; Mattie became the wife
of Thomas CARROLL, formerly a real estate man in Longview, and they
also are deceased; Emma, who lives at Longview, is the widow of Joe
BORING, who was a merchant there; Oscar, whose home is at Marshall,
Texas, is engineer on one of the fastest trains between Longview and
Texarkana; the fifth in age is Doctor Brown of Davis, Oklahoma; Lula
is the wife of Ed CRANE, who has been a general merchant and is now a
druggist at Longview; Walter lives in Houston, Texas, and has active
charge of the House estate in and near that city; Mittie is the wife
of Robert BRUCE of Longview.

Dr. Isaac Newton Brown was born in the home of his parents at Selma,
Alabama, October 14, 1860. He grew up at Longview, Texas, and was
graduated from the Alexander Institute at Kilgore in Gregg County, A.
B., in 1878. Then followed two years of clerical experience in a drug
store at Longview, and from there he entered the Kentucky School of
Medicine at Louisville, where he was graduated M. D. in 1884. Before
taking up private practice he served two years as interne in the City
Charity Hospital at Louisville. Doctor Brown began practice in Bell
County, Texas, in 1886, and remained there until his removal to
Ardmore, Indian Territory, in 1890. In his long experience as a
physician he has gradually contracted his practice and specializes
largely in surgery, obstetrics and gynecology. He took special
courses in 1903 in Tulane University at New Orleans. He is examining
surgeon for the Phoenix Life, the American Life, the Bankers and the
Oklahoma State Life Insurance companies at Davis. He is also a member
of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, is
affiliated with Lodge No. 120, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at
Davis, and with Cedar Camp No. 420, Woodmen of the World, at Davis.
He and his family are members of the Christian Church.

At Longview, Texas, in 1886, soon after graduating in medicine,
Doctor Brown married Miss Iris BOYD, a daughter of James Boyd, now
deceased, who was a farmer and stockman. They had one child, Lynn,
who died at Davis in 1908 at the age of twenty-two.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Marti Graham, 22 October, 1998.