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[Identification of item], in the Joseph E. Brown Papers, #1183-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894.
• Connelly family.
• Families--Georgia.
• Genealogy.
• Georgia--Genealogy.
• Spalding family.

Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894) was the governor of Georgia between 1857 and 1865 and a United States senator from 1880 to 1891.

The collection contains clippings and genealogical data, 1927-1930, pertaining to the family of Joseph Emerson Brown including material on the Spalding and Connally families and from his wife, Elizabeth Grisham Brown; a few pictures; and mimeographed copies of seven letters, 1858-1861, from Reverend Joseph Brown of Tennessee to Joseph E. Brown, chiefly giving family information.