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Brown, Oren Britt

lawyer, jurist, was born June 22, 1853, in New Orleans county, N. Y. He received his education at the Denison university of Granville, Ohio; and the Princeton college, New Jersey. Since 1878 he has been engaged in the practice of law, and is one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Dayton, where he is a judge of the city police court; and has filled various public offices of honor.

Brown, Orvon Graff

educator, college president, was born July 1, 1863, in Greensburg, Pa. In 1882 he was elected professor of science in the Cincinnati Wesleyan college; and in 1885 was elected president of Twin Valley college, which he named from its location in the Twin Valley.

Brown, Philip Shelley

lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1833, in Bedford county, Pa. He engaged in the practice of law in Kansas City, Mo., and retained for years a prominent position at the bar.

BROWN, MRS. PHOEBE (HINSDALE), hymn writer, was born in 1783, in Canaan, N. Y. She was a hymn writer remembered for her popular religious lyric, I Love to Steal Awhile Away. She died Oct. 10, 1861, in Henry, Ill.

Brown, Robert

soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1745 in Northampton county, Pa. He was appointed at the beginning of the revolution an officer in the Pennsylvania flying camp, and was made prisoner on Long island. He was made brigadier-general of the state militia, filled several civil stations, and was a member of the state senate for some time. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1798-1815. He died Feb. 26, 1823, in Northampton, Pa.

Brown, Robert C

merchant, was born in Cohocton, N. Y. He is a member of the Owl Cigar company of New York and Florida, and has been trustee of the Mercantile Benefit association, and of the Excelsior Savings bank.

Brown, Samuel Gilman

clergyman, college president, author, was born Jan. 4, 1813, in North Yarmouth, Maine.

He was a congregational clergyman and president of Hamilton college in 1867-81.

He was the author of Biography of Self- Taught Men; and Life of Rufus Choate.

He died in 1885.

Brown, Samuel R

soldier, author, was born in 1775. He was a volunteer during the war of 1812. He was the author of A View of the Campaigns of the Northwestern Army; and History of the War of 1812, in two volumes. He died Sept. 15, 1817, in Cherry Valley.

Brown, Samuel Smith

soldier, merchant, was born Dec. 15, 1842, in Pitt, Pa. He studied at different normal schools and at Jefferson college in Canonsburg, Pa.; and then enlisted in the union army as a member of the tenth Pennsylvania reserves, serving through the early part of the war in the army of the Potomac.

He is the owner of valuable coal lands.

Brown, Solyman

author, was born Nov. 17, 1790, in Litchfield, Conn. He published an essay on American poetry, together with some miscellanies; and Dental Hygeia, a poem on the general laws of health. He was co-editor of the Journal of Dental Science. He died about 1865 in New York.

Brown, Tarleton

soldier of the revolution, was born in 1754 in Barnwell district, S. C. He served through the war of independence, attaining the rank of captain. His Memoirs, with notes by Charles J. Bushnell, contain interesting and original information in relation to the events of his time in the Carolinas.

He died in 1846.

Brown, Theron

clergyman, author, poet, was born April 29, 1832, in Willimantic, Conn. For ten years he was a clergyman of the baptist church in Boston, Mass. For over a quarter of a century he has been one of the editors of the Youth's Companion. He has written a number of books for young people, the most notable of which are The Blount Family; and Walter Neil's Example. He is also the author of a collection of poems entitled Life Songs.