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1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Robert J Brown
Age in 1870: 4/12
Birth Year: abt 1870
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1870: Subdivision 8, Bibb, Georgia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Macon
Household Members:
Name Age
Willis Brown 19
Mary Brown 17
Robert J Brown 4/12
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Mary C Brown
Age: 51
Birth Date: Jan 1849
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1900: Militia District 716, Bibb, Georgia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: John W Brown
Marriage Year: 1870
Years Married: 30
Father's Birthplace: Georgia
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Mother: number of living children: 2
Mother: How many children: 4
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John W Brown 51
Mary C Brown 51
1880 Census Mt. Sterling, Choctaw Co., AL, ED #17, Image 15, (?)
enumerated 7 Jun 1880,
Jerry Brown is found in the household of S. S. Mellen, as a boarder:
Brown, Jerry, w, m, 19, boarder, b. AL, f. b. AL, m. b. AL.
Gerald Brown worked for the Mills in Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., GA.
He died of Tuberculosis in about 1894, when Estelle was only three
years old. (Source: Carolyn Reid Love Simpson - 2003)
1880 United States Federal Census (possible Gerald)
Name: W. G. Brown
Age: 20
Birth Year: abt 1860
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1880: Americus City, Sumter, Georgia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: P F Brown
Father's Birthplace: Georgia
Mother's Name: E A. Brown
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Household Members:
Name Age
P F Brown 60
E A. Brown 43
W. G. Brown 20
Blanche Brown 18
C. Hugh Brown 15
P. F. Brown 8
Harrold Brown 4
Ethe Brown 2
Gerald Brown & Elizabeth Crenshaw worked in the Mills near Columbus, GA.
Early History of GA Cotton Mills:
Bibb Manufacturing Company, known for its quality textile products, originated in Macon in 1876. Named for Bibb County, the enterprise was initiated in 1876 by three cotton merchants, Hugh Moss Comer of Savannah and brothers Major John F. Hanson and I. Newton Hanson of Macon.
The merchants set up their first factory for yarn production in a freight warehouse formerly used by the Central of Georgia Railway. Comer served as president and Major Hanson as secretary and treasurer.
In 1878 they acquired their second mill by purchasing a former cotton factory, Macon Manufacturing Company. (Most probably where Gerald & Elizabeth worked)
In 1895 the Bibb Manufacturing Company employed 700 workers and consumed 20,000 bales of cotton annually. By 1898 it had acquired additional Georgia mills: Macon Knitting Company, Taylor Manufacturing near Reynolds, the Cordele Manufacturing Company, and two already established mills at Porterdale.
In 1900 Comer died, and Major Hanson succeeded him as president. That year Bibb Manufacturing purchased a dam site on the Chattahoochee River near Columbus from the Columbus Power Company. A new mill was built called the Columbus Mill; the surrounding community was named "Bibb City." In time this facility would become the largest cotton mill in the country. Another new factory opened in 1905, the Payne Mill, located in Vineville. It would be the last outside acquisition made by Bibb Manufacturing for thirty-two years. Hanson served as president until 1908. During his years with Bibb, he was also named head of both the Central of Georgia Railway and the Ocean Steamship Company.
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