Brown, Buckminster – Brown, Foster Vincent
Brown, Buckminster
surgeon, author, was born July 13, 1819, in Boston.
Devoting himself to orthopedic surgery, he has attained experience and skill that places him among the foremost living specialists in that line. He is the author of many technical treatises, including a full account of the instance of the doublehip displacement.
Brown, Calvin Scott
educator, clergyman, missionary, was born March 23, 1859, in Winton, N. C. In 1886 he graduated from the Shaw university. He has been secretary and president of the baptist state convention; president of the Baptist State Ministers' association, and has been pastor and is now president of Waters Normal institute and general missionary secretary of the baptist state convention. He is connected with various societies as secretary, superintendent and grand chaplain; and is also the editor of the Baptist Pilot.
Brown, Charles
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1849. He subsequently held the office of collector of the port of Philadelphia; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.
Brown, Charles Brockden
author, was born Jan. 17, 1771, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a novelist of Philadelphia, and the first of native authors who adopted literature as a profession. In his novels probability plays a very small part, the local color is faint, though the scenes are American, and all are overshadowed by an overpowering element of mystery. In spite of extravagances and faults, his work possesses undeniable power of a very high order, and does not deserve the neglect into which it has fallen. Wieland; Ormond, or the Secret Witness; and Arthur Mervyn, are in some respects the most powerful of his works.
He is the author of Edgar Huntley, or the Memories of a Sleep Walker; Clara Howard, reprinted in England as Philip Stanley; and Jane Talbot. He died Feb. 22, 1810.
Brown, Charles Elwood
lawyer, soldier, congressman, was born July 4, 1834, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted in the union army; served throughout the civil war, attained the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. In the Atlanta campaign, in 1864, he commanded his regiment and lost a leg. In 1872 he was appointed United States pension agent at Cincinnati, serving four years; and in 1884, was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Brown, Charles Lincoln
lawyer, state senator, was born July 6, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of Philadelphia; was a member of the common council in 1891 and 1893; a member of the select council in 1894; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Pennsylvania state senate.
Brown, Charles Rufus
theologian, author, was born in 1849, in New Hampshire. He has been a professor of Old Testament interpretation at Union Theological seminary since 1883. He is the author of An Aramaic Method, a Text and Grammar. .
Brown, D. Russell
manufacturer, governor, was born March 28, 1848, in Connecticut. In 1880 he was elected to the common council of Providence, and served four years. In 1886 he was tendered the nomination of mayor, but declined; and two years later was elected presidential elector. In 1892 he was elected governor of Rhode Island, and for many years filled that high office to the entire satisfaction of the people. In 1870 Mr.
Brown moved to Providence and took charge of the Mill supply store of Cyrus White, which business he subsequently purchased. He is now the president of the Brown Brothers' company, general mill furnishers. He is connected with numerous charitable and educational institutions in his city and state; and a prominent member of various fraternal orders.
Brown, David
was noted as the hermit of Newfane. He was a noted book collector, and left one of the largest and most costly libraries in the state. He died Jan 31, 1873, in Newfane, Vt.
Brown, David Paul
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia lawyer and the author of two tragedies, Sestorius; and The Trial; a melodrama and a comedy; and The Forum, or Forty Years' Practice at the Philadelphia Bar. His Forensic Speeches were edited by his son in 1873. He died July 11, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Brown, Duncan
soldier, clergyman, college president, was born June 6, 1844, in Hannibal, Mo. He served as a union soldier from 1861 to 1865, and in 1868 graduated from Pardee college, Mo.; and from the Princeton Theological seminary in 1871. He has held pastorates in Mound City, St. Joseph, Macon and Tarkio, Mo.
He has been president of the Highland university of Kansas, and is now president of the Brookfield college of Tarkio, Mo.
Brown, E. Scott
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 3, 1846, in Allen county, Ky. During 1869-75 he was a merchant and postmaster in Scottsville, Ky.; and in 1876 was one of the founders of the city of De Land, Fla. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, and has since successfully practiced that profession. For six years he was clerk of the Allen circuit court; and during 1886-91 was president of the Bank of Allen County. In 1887-88 he was a member of the lower house of the Kentucky legislature and served with distinction in that body. In 1888 he was chosen a delegate to represent the national farmers' congress in the Paris exposition; the same year was a delegate to the republican national convention, and during 1894-97 was police judge of the city of Scottsville, Ky.
Brown, Edward Josiah
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 14, 1851, in Burke, Vt. In 1874 he graduated from Dartmouth college, and graduated from the medical department of the university of New York in 1878. He also studied medicine in the university of Berlin. He has held chairs of chemistry, hygiene, ophthalmology and otology in the Minneapolis college of physicians and surgeons. In 1888 he was president of the Hennepin County Medical society, and has held various other positions of honor.
Brown, Edwin Lee
architect, business man, humanitarian, was born in March, 1827. In 1860 he moved to Chicago, where he was engaged in the manufacture of sidewalk and vault lights. He has held other positions, as president of the Western Sand Blast and Western Seed companies, and the gas company of Evanston; he has been president of the Young Men's Library association. He was active in establishing the Western Lecture bureau; and has been president of the Interstate Industrial exposition, the Illinois Humane society, and the American Humane association.
Brown, Edwin N
educator, author, was born in 1860, in Lansing, Mich. He graduated from the university of Michigan, and has since been superintendent of the schools of Jonesville and Allegan, Mich., and Hastings, Neb. He is the author of Treasury of Latin Gems, and other works.
Brown, Egbert Benson
soldier, was born Oct. 24, 1816, in Brownsville, N. Y. He served through the civil war, mainly in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and left the army with one shoulder al-- most wholly disabled and a bullet in his hip. The legislature of Missouri officially complimented the troops of his command for their conduct at the battle of Springfield. From 1866 till 1868 he was United States pension agent at St. Louis.
Brown, Elias
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1829 to 1831; and a presidential elector in 1820, 1828 and 1836.
Brown, Ellsworth Lincoln
lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 31, 1862, in Milan, Ill. He was elected to the Washington state senate from the seventeenth district; was also court commissioner, and has attained an enviable reputation as a brilliant lawyer.
Brown, Emma Elizabeth
author, poet, was born Oct. 18, 1847, in Concord, N. H. Her works include lives of Washington; Grant; Garfield; Wendell Holmes; Russell Lowell; From Night to Light, a story of Bible times; The Child Toilers of Boston Streets; and An Hundred Years Ago, a volume of poems.
Brown, Ethan Allen
jurist, governor, United States senator, was born July 4, 1776, in Darien, Conn. He was judge of the supreme court of Ohio from 1810-18; governor of the state from 1818-22; and United States senator from 1822-25. He was United States minister to Brazil from 1830-34, and commissioner of the general land office in 1835-36. He removed to Indiana in 1836, and was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1842.
He died Feb. 24, 1852, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Brown, Fletcher
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 2, 1850, in Guernsey county, Ohio. He was educated at the Central university, Drew Theological seminary, and Simpson college. He served as a member of the Des Moines conference for eight years; was vice-president of Simpson college for five years, and was also its president for five years.
Brown, Foster Vincent
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1854, in White county, Tenn. He was elected attorney-general of the fourth Chattanooga judicial district in 1886, and held the office for eight years, his term ending in 1894.
He removed to Chattanooga in 1890, and continued the practice of law with Judge Charles D. Clark. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1884 and voted for James G. Blaine for president; and was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.