Lawrence Bernard Brown (September 12, 1856 – June 16, 1941) was a self-made businessman, community leader, and master carpenter.
Brown was born in Wacahoota, Florida[1] the sixth of seven children by Peter (a "plantation minister") and Catherine Brown.
[2] Brown along with the rest of his family lived as enslaved peoples until slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
He died in Bartow, Florida in 1941.