Background
Brown, Lucius Polk was born on August 1, 1867 in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Campbell and Susan R. (Polk) Brown.
Brown, Lucius Polk was born on August 1, 1867 in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Campbell and Susan R. (Polk) Brown.
Graduate University of Virginia, 1889. Post-graduate work in chemistry.
Engaged in farming, 1890-1893. In private practice as member firms of Memminger & Brown and Lucius P. Brown & Company, analytical chemists, 1894-1908. President Brown laboratories, Incorporated., 1908-1915.
Acting chemist, Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1889-1890.
Food and drugs commissioner of Tennessee, 1908-1915. Director bureau of Food and Drugs, Department of Health, City of New York, 1915-1920.
Captain Nutrition Division, Sanitary Corps United States Army, 1918-1919.
Member firms of Memminger & Brown and Lucius P. Brown & Company
Married Susan Catherine Massie, December 12, 1903.