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Brown, James (Banker was born in February)

banker, was born in February, 1791, in Ireland. He became one of the representative bankers of New York. In the panic of 1837, the English branch of the firm was able to secure a loan of $10,000,000 from the Bank of England, which enabled the local firm to weather the financial storm without suspension, and placed them in the front rank of the bankers of the world. The house has branches in Baltimore and Philadelphia in this country, under different names, and in England under the name of Brown, Shipley and Co. He died Nov. 1, 1877, in New York city.