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Brown, Charles Rufus

theologian, author, was born in 1849, in New Hampshire. He has been a professor of Old Testament interpretation at Union Theological seminary since 1883. He is the author of An Aramaic Method, a Text and Grammar. .

Brown, David

was noted as the hermit of Newfane. He was a noted book collector, and left one of the largest and most costly libraries in the state. He died Jan 31, 1873, in Newfane, Vt.

Brown, David Paul

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia lawyer and the author of two tragedies, Sestorius; and The Trial; a melodrama and a comedy; and The Forum, or Forty Years' Practice at the Philadelphia Bar. His Forensic Speeches were edited by his son in 1873. He died July 11, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Brown, Duncan

soldier, clergyman, college president, was born June 6, 1844, in Hannibal, Mo. He served as a union soldier from 1861 to 1865, and in 1868 graduated from Pardee college, Mo.; and from the Princeton Theological seminary in 1871. He has held pastorates in Mound City, St. Joseph, Macon and Tarkio, Mo.

He has been president of the Highland university of Kansas, and is now president of the Brookfield college of Tarkio, Mo.

Brown, Edward Josiah

physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 14, 1851, in Burke, Vt. In 1874 he graduated from Dartmouth college, and graduated from the medical department of the university of New York in 1878. He also studied medicine in the university of Berlin. He has held chairs of chemistry, hygiene, ophthalmology and otology in the Minneapolis college of physicians and surgeons. In 1888 he was president of the Hennepin County Medical society, and has held various other positions of honor.

Brown, Edwin N

educator, author, was born in 1860, in Lansing, Mich. He graduated from the university of Michigan, and has since been superintendent of the schools of Jonesville and Allegan, Mich., and Hastings, Neb. He is the author of Treasury of Latin Gems, and other works.

Brown, Egbert Benson

soldier, was born Oct. 24, 1816, in Brownsville, N. Y. He served through the civil war, mainly in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and left the army with one shoulder al-- most wholly disabled and a bullet in his hip. The legislature of Missouri officially complimented the troops of his command for their conduct at the battle of Springfield. From 1866 till 1868 he was United States pension agent at St. Louis.

Brown, Elias

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1829 to 1831; and a presidential elector in 1820, 1828 and 1836.

Brown, Ellsworth Lincoln

lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 31, 1862, in Milan, Ill. He was elected to the Washington state senate from the seventeenth district; was also court commissioner, and has attained an enviable reputation as a brilliant lawyer.

Brown, Emma Elizabeth

author, poet, was born Oct. 18, 1847, in Concord, N. H. Her works include lives of Washington; Grant; Garfield; Wendell Holmes; Russell Lowell; From Night to Light, a story of Bible times; The Child Toilers of Boston Streets; and An Hundred Years Ago, a volume of poems.

Brown, Ethan Allen

jurist, governor, United States senator, was born July 4, 1776, in Darien, Conn. He was judge of the supreme court of Ohio from 1810-18; governor of the state from 1818-22; and United States senator from 1822-25. He was United States minister to Brazil from 1830-34, and commissioner of the general land office in 1835-36. He removed to Indiana in 1836, and was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1842.

He died Feb. 24, 1852, in Indianapolis, Ind.