Early Life
Albert Gallatin Brown was born to Joseph and Elizabeth (Rice) Brown, a poor farming family, in the Chester District of South Carolina at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains on May 31, 1813. In 1823, when Albert was only 10 years-old his family moved to the new State of Mississippi. The Brown family settled Copiah County south of the State Capital of Jackson, Mississippi. Raising cotton in the new frontier state of Mississippi proved to be lucrative for the Brown family. In 1824, just one year after settling in Mississippi, Joseph Brown was elected Justice of the Peace in Copiah County. By 1825, two years after arriving in Mississippi, Joseph Brown was third largest taxpayer Copiah County, owning 18 slaves. By 1832, he was farming a plantation of 1,600 acres and owned 23 slaves.
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