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Brown, John Newton

clergyman, was born June 29, 1803, in New London, Conn. In 1833 he moved to Boston, where he edited the Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge, which was republished in England. He died May 15, 1868, in Germantown, Pa.

Brown, John Porter

oriental scholar, was born Aug. 17, 1814, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was a frequent contributor to American newspapers and magazines, and wrote Dervishes, or Oriental Spiritualism; and also translated Ahmed Ben Hemden's Turkish Evening Entertainments; and Constantine's Ancient and Modern Constantinople. He died April 28, 1872, in Constantinople, Turkey.

Brown, John R

soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1842, in Franklin county, Va. He entered the confederate army as a private in company D, twenty-fourth Virginia volunteers. In 1870 he formed a copartnership with his father as manufacturers of tobacco at Shady Grove, and in 1882 removed to Martinsville, where the firm and business has since been continued. He was elected mayor of Martinsville in 1884, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as an independent republican.

Brown, John Sidney

merchant, was born June 10, 1833, in Ohio. He and his brother built the first grain elevator and roller flour mill in Colorado, and they are now engaged in the grocery business under the firm name of J. S. Brown and Brother. He was president of the City National bank of Denver, and vice-president of the Union Pacific and Gulf railroad for several years.

Brown, John W

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1797 in Dundee, Scotland. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1820; elected a representative in congress from New York in 1832, and reelected in 1834. In 1849 he was elected a justice of the supreme court of that state, and re-elected in 1857, retiring from the bench in 1865. He died Sept. 6, 1875, in Newburg, N. Y.

Brown, John Walker

clergyman, poet, was born in 1814 in New York. He was an episcopal clergyman, and the author of Christmas Bells, a Tale of Holy Tide, and Other Poems. He died in 1849.

Brown, John Wesley

journalist, lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 15, 1852, in Lee Valley, Tenn. He received his education at the Hiwassee college, Tennessee, and for many years was engaged in the government service as pension clerk and file clerk. He was private secretary to Congressman A. H. Pettibone; delegate to the national republican convention in 1884; an alternate in 1880; and during 1884-87 served with distinction as state senator in the Tennessee legislature.

Brown, John Young

lawyer, congressman, was born June 28, 1835, in Claysville, Ky. In 1859 he was elected to congress, but not having attained the constitutional age, declined to take his seat. In 1867 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortieth congress, but in March, 1868, his claim to a seat was rejected by the house. He was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses, serving on various committees.

Brown, Joseph

manufacturer, scientist, was born Dec. 3, 1733, in Providence, R. I. He was greatly interested in the science of electricity, and his knowledge of that subject was remarkable for the time. At his death he left an electric machine of his own construction, then unsurpassed by any other in the country. He devoted considerable study to mechanics and was proficient in astronomy. He died Dec. 3, 1785, in Providence, R. I.

Brown, Joseph

soldier, was born in 1773 in North Carolina. He fought in the war of 1812, as colonel of the twentyseventh Tennessee regiment. When eighty-six years of age he wrote an account of his captivity and the destruction of Chickamauga. He died in 1862 in Tennessee.