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Brown, John Henry

author, was born Oct. 29, 1820, in Pike county, Miss.

He is the author of Two Years in Mexico; Early Life in the Southwest, Indian Wars and Pioneer of Texas; The Life and Times of Henry Smith; and is now completing a history of Texas from its discovery, 1685, to 1885.

BROWN, JOHN HENRY HOBART, protestant episcopal bishop, was born Jan. 1, 1831, in New York city. He was chosen to be the first bishop of the diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis., and was consecrated in Cohoes, Dec. 15, 1875. He published a number of sermons and addresses. He died May 2, 1888, in Fond du Lac, Wis.

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