Brown, James S – Brown, John Wesley
Brown, James S
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1824, in Hampton, Maine. In 1846 he was chosen prosecuting attorney for Milwaukee county, Wis.; in 1848 was elected attorney-general of the state; and in 1861 was mayor of Milwaukee. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-eighth congress. He died in 1878, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Brown, Jason Brevoort
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1839, in Dillsboro, Ind. He has taken part as a public speaker in all of the political campaigns in his state since 1862; was elected to the Indiana house of representatives from Jackson county in 1862, and was re-elected in 1864. He was elected to the state senate in 1870 from the counties of Jackson and Brown, and was re-elected in 1880 from the counties of Jackson and Jennings. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Brown, Jeremiah
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1776, in Pennsylvania. He served in the legislature of that state, and as a member of one or two state conventions. He was the first associate judge elected by the people, and was a representative in congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1841 to 1845. He died March 2, 1848, in Lancaster, Pa.
Brown, Jesse Hunter
journalist, author, was born Aug. 31, 1861, in Hiram, Ohio. He received his education at Hiram college. He has been the editor of several publications, and is the author of Norman McDonald; A Woman's Doing; Roderick Wayne; The Ironclad Pledge; and Runaway.
Brown, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1809 to 1810.
Brown, John
congressman, was born in Mifflin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1825.
Brown, John
congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1736, in Providence, R. I. He was one of the men who captured the Gaspee in Providence river, in 1772. He took an active part in the revolution, and was an ardent friend of the constitution.
He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1799 to 1801. He died Sept. 20, 1803.
Brown, John
soldier, was born Oct. 19, 1744, in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary war. He was killed in battle Oct. 19, 1780, near the Mohawk river.
Brown, John
lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 12, 1757, in Staunton, Va. He was elected a member of the Virginia legislature from the district of Kentucky, and was appointed a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress, from 1787 to 1788. He was a representative from Kentucky to the federal congress from 1789 to 1791; a United States senator from 1793 to 1805, and was the last survivor of the old congress, and the first member from the Valley of the Mississippi. He died Aug. 28, 1837, in Frankfort, Ky.
Brown, John
clergyman, college president, was born June 15, 1763, in Ireland. In 1779 he joined the revolutionary army as a volunteer and fought under General Sumter. In 1809 he was elected professor of logic and moral philosophy in the university of South Carolina. In 1811 he became president of the university of Georgia. He died Dec. 11, 1842, in Fort Gaines, Ga.
Brown, John
abolitionist, was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Conn. In 1855 he emigrated to Kansas, where he took an active part in the contest of that state, caused by the passage of the Kansas- Nebraska bill, advocating squatter-sovereignty. In 1859 he formed the bold plan of freeing the slaves in Virginia, and on the night of Oct. 16 he surprised Harper's Ferry, seized the arsenal and armory and took forty prisoners. But his small band was soon overpowered and captured. He was tried in November, and hanged Dec. 2, 1859.
Brown, John Alexander
banker, was born May 21, 1788. He was elected a director of the old United States bank under the presidency of Nicholas Biddle.
He acquired a large fortune, and gave more than $500,000 to benevolent objects.
The Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia received a donation of $300,000. He died Dec. 31, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Brown, John Brewer
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 13, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected to the state house of delegates in 1870; was elected to the state senate in 1887 and served three terms. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat to fill a vacancy.
Brown, John Bundy
banker, state senator, was born May 31, 1805, in Maine.
He was president of the Portland Savings bank. The board of trade made Mr. Brown its first president; and he was president of Maine General hospital. He was prominent in the organization of the republican party in Maine, and was elected to the Maine senate in 1856 and a presidential elector in 1860. He died Jan. 10, 1881, in Portland, Maine.
Brown, John Calvin
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 6, 1827, in Giles county, Tenn. In 1861 he entered the confederate army, and was made captain; and served with distinction throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major-general. He was a delegate to, and was elected president of the state constitutional convention of 1870; and in that year was elected governor of Tennessee, and was re-elected in 1872. serving until 1875. In 1876 he was elected vice-president of the Texas and Pacific Railway company. He died Aug. 17, 1889, in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn.
Brown, John George
artist, was born Nov. 11, 1831, in England. He is noted as a painter of strictly American subjects, and particularly of the street boys and bootblacks of New York city.
He was president of the American Water Color society for ten years, and chairman of art commission to judge of fine arts at the world's fair. Among his best known works are His First Cigar; Curling in Central Park; The Passing Show; The Dress Parade; A Merry Air and a Sad Heart; The Thrilling Moment; and The Old Folks at Home.
Brown, John Hamilton
inventor, was born July 28, 1837, in Liberty, Maine.
In 1875 he conceived the idea of the segmental tube wire-wound gun, and since 1886 he has given his entire time to the perfecting of the wire gun, which has been generally introduced in America and Europe.
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.
Brown, John Jackson
educator, journalist, was born Feb. 7, 1820, in Amenia, N. Y. In 1865 he accepted the chair of natural science in the Falley seminary at Fulton, N. Y.; in 1870 was elected to the chair of chemistry and industrial mechanics in Cornell university; for five years was editor of the Humphrey Journal of Photography; and for eleven years editor of the scientific department of the Northern Christian Advocate. He died Aug. 15, 1891, in Syracuse, N. Y.
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.