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Brown, Thomas

statesman. He was governor of Florida from 1849 to 1853.

Brown, Thomas

naval officer, was born in Delaware. He entered the service as midshipman in 1801, was promoted a lieutenant in 1807, master in 1815, and captain in 1825. He commanded the schooner Gov. Tompkins in several engagements with the enemy on Lake Ontario in 1814. In 1819-21 he commanded the ship Peacock in the Mediterranean.

He died Nov. 28, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Brown, Thomas

colonial author, was born about 1740. He was a resident of Charlestown, Mass. In 1757 he was captured by the Indians, after being wounded in an engagement between the French and English. He was held in captivity for nearly four years, and then returned to his father's house. The narrative of his adventures, written by himself, is perhaps the rarest of American books of its class.

Brown, Thomas

lawyer, journalist, was born about 1819 in Ohio. He took a prominent part in the free-soil movement of 1848, and in 1850 abandoned the profession of law, and, in connection with Col. John C. Vaughn, established the True Democrat, the free-soil organ of northern Ohio. In 1853 he withdrew from that paper, which, in the course of the next year, became the Cleveland Leader, and established the Ohio Farmer. He died June 13, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brown, Thomas Edwin

clergyman, author, was born in 1841 in District of Columbia. He is a baptist clergyman of Rochester, N. Y.; and the author of Studies in Modern Socialism and Labor Problems.

Brown, Thomas H

manufacturer, public official, was born April 3, 1839, in Milwaukee, Wis. He was mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., from 1880 to 1884. His business is that of carriage manufacturer.

He made an unsuccessful run on the republican ticket for congress.

Brown, Thompson S

civil engineer, was born in 1807 in Brownsville, N. Y. He was chief engineer of the New York and Erie railroad in 1838-42, and subsequently employed as consulting engineer of the St. Petersburg and Moscow railroad in Russia. He died Jan. 30, 1855, in Naples, Italy.

Brown, Thurlow Weed

journalist, author. He was a Wisconsin journalist prominent as a temperance advocate; and the author of Why I Am a Temperance Man; Minnie Hermon, the Landlord's Daughter; and Temperance Tales. He died May 4, 1866, in Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Brown, Titus

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1786 in Cheshire county, N. H. He was a member of the legislature of New Hampshire from 1820 to 1825; and was elected a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1825 to 1829. In 1842 he was elected to the state senate and made president. He died Jan. 31, 1849, in Francistown, N. H.

Brown, Will Gay

lawyer, state senator, was born April 8, 1867, in Warrick, Ga. He has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of Alabama at Cullman; and in 1896 was elected a member of the state senate of the Alabama legislature for a term of four years. • BROWN, WILLIAM, congressman, was born in Frederick county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1819 to 1823.

Brown, William Hill

poet, was born in 1766. He wrote a tragedy, founded on the death of Major John André, and a comedy. His Ira and Isabella was published in 1807. He died Sept. 10, 1793, in Murfreesborough, N. C.

Brown, William King

educator, lawyer, was born June 28, 1865, near Red Springs, N. C. He received his education at the university of North Carolina and the university of Nashville. For many years he was engaged in educational work as principal of the high school of Burlington, Ala.; and as instructor in the Centennial graded school of Raleigh, N. C.

He has attained prominence as one of Alabama's ablest lawyers; and has an extensive practice in Birmingham.