Negative group portrait taken of faculty at Fargo Agricultural School in 1934-1935. Standing (l to r): Mrs. Washington, music; Mr. Wilson, Dean; Miss M.Z. Chandler, home economics; Joe F. Walker, vocational education secretary. Seated: Mrs. L.N. Brown, President Floyd R. Brown, Mother Thomas, matron; Mr. W.S. Hayes, math. Mrs. Lillian Nora Epps Brown was born November 1, 1894, in Olyphant, Independence County, Arkansas the daughter of Joseph and Emma Epps. She graduated from Shorter College in North Little Rock, Arkansas and the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama. After returning to Arkansas and working as a teacher, she met and married Floyd B. Brown. Together they founded the Fargo Agricultural School at Fargo, Arkansas in 1919, and operated it until 1949. As a teacher of Home Economics, Brown's knowledge and skill provided extensive teaching and mentoring support to the Fargo Agricultural School. The school was an African American owned and operated boarding school for African American boys and girls with a flexible curriculum. She passed away December 9, 1994, in Newport, Jackson County, Arkansas. Floyd Brown was born April 27, 1891 at Stampley, Jefferson County, Mississippi and died September 11, 1961 in the Baptist Hospital in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas while a resident of Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. He attended Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama and Tennessee State College. In 1915, he came to Arkansas selling books to raise funds to finish school and decided to start the school at Fargo. In addition to teaching math at Fargo, Wesley S. Hayes was a teacher at Green Grove near Hazen and a high school principal at Brinkley, Monroe County for 29 years. A native of Georgia, Hayes moved to Arkansas in 1891 to teach and preach at Hazen, Prairie County. He served as pastor at numerous churches including the First Baptist Church at Malvern, where he served for 14 years. Hayes attended the Consolidated White River Academy at Brinkley, Arkansas Baptist at Little Rock, Pulaski County and Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. Hayes died in January of 1965.
