Julius L. Brown » Employees of the Western & Atlantic Railroad

Biographical Info

Julius L. Brown was a well-known attorney from Atlanta, Georgia. He was also one of the founders of the Metropolitan Street Railroad and the brother of Georgia’s governor and senator, Joseph E. Brown.

Brown was born in Canton, Georgia, on May 31, 1848. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1864 and served until the Civil War ended.

He attended Georgia State University and was admitted to the bar in September 1869. Later, in June 1870, he graduated from Harvard Law School. Brown became the Western and Atlantic Railroad general counsel in 1872.

He lived in the Washington–Rawson neighborhood in Atlanta, which no longer exists, and passed away there on September 4, 1910.