Brown, John Young – Brown, Samuel
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.
Brown, Joseph Emerson
lawyer, jurist, governor, United States senator, was born April 15, 1821, in South Carolina. In 1849 he was elected to the Georgia state senate; in 1852 he was a Pierce elector; in 1855 he was elected judge of the superior courts of the Blue Ridge circuit; and in 1857 he was elected governor. He was re-elected in 1859 over Hon. Warren Aiken. He was a secessionist in 1860, and was active and energetic as a war governor after the state had seceded. In 1861 he was again elected governor over the Hon. Eugenius A. Nisbet, and in 1863 he was again elected. During 1868-70 he was chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia, which position he resigned to accept the presidency of the Western Atlantic Railroad company.
During 1880-91 he was United States senator. He died Nov. 30, 1894, in Atlanta, Ga.
Brown, Julius L
lawyer, businessman, was born May 31, 1848, in Canton, Ga. He was general counsel for the Western and Atlantic railroads; and is now master in chancery of the United States circuit court; and president of The Georgia Mining, Manufacturing and Investment company.
Brown, Junius Flag
merchant, was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Conneaut, Ohio.
He went to Denver in 1870, and estab-- lished a wholesale grocery business, under the firm name of J. S. Brown and Bro., which has greatly prospered. He was vice-president of the City National bank for fifteen years, and is a large shareholder in the Denver Tramway street car railroad.
Brown, Lewis Henry
legislator, public official, was born March 24, 1857, in Hayward, Cal. He has served as city treasurer of San Francisco, Cal.; has been a member of the state legislature; and filled the high office of secretary of state.
Brown, Mary L
poet, was born in Griswold, Conn. Has written extensively for the periodical press, and many of her poems have appeared in standard works.
Brown, Mason
jurist, was born Nov. 10, 1799, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the circuit court of his district for many years, and from 1855 till 1859, during the administration of Gov. Morehead, he was secretary of state. To his public spirit Frankfort was largely indebted for works of public utility and ornament. He died Jan. 27, 1867, in Frankfort, Ky.
Brown, Matthew
educator, college president, was born in 1776 in Northumberland county, Pa. In 1801 he was ordained pastor of the united congregations of Mifflin and Lost Creek, and in 1805 became pastor of the presbyterian church at Washington, Pa., and principal of the academy there. When the academy was chartered as Washington college, in 1806, Mr. Brown was made its first president. He resigned in 1816, still retaining his pastorate. After refusing the presidency of Centre college, Danville, Ky., he accepted, in 1822, that of Jefferson college, Cannonsburg, Pa. He died July 20, 1853, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Brown, Milton
congressman, was born in Ohio. He removed to Tennessee; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1847.
Brown, Milton
lawyer, legislator, was born May. 12, 1854, in Raysville, Ind.
He received his education in the common schools of Indiana and at Knightstown academy. During 1876-80 he was deputy recorder and recorder; and the four succeeding years was clerk of the circuit court in Indiana. During 1892-96 he served in the Kansas legislature as state senator with distinction. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Kansas; was vice-president of the Medico-Legal congress; and a member of the committee of the American Bar association for the uniformity of land and code revision.
Brown, Morgan W
jurist, was born in Tennessee. In 1834 he was appointed United States judge for the district comprising that state.
Brown, Nathan W
soldier, was born Jan. 15, 1819, in Brownsville, N. Y.
He entered the service as paymaster in 1849; was made assistant paymaster-general with the rank of colonel in 1866; and in 1880 was appointed paymaster-general with the rank of brigadier-general.
Brown, Neill S
soldier, legislator, governor, was born July, 1810, in Giles county, Tenn. He was a volunteer in the Florida war of 1836-37. In 1842 he was elected a representative in the Tennessee legislature, serving two years; in 1844 was a presidential elector; in 1847 was the candidate of the whig party for governor of Tennessee, and was elected. In 1850 he was appointed minister to Russia, serving four years. In 1855 he was elected to the Tennessee legislature, and became speaker of the house. He died January, 1886, in Nashville, Tenn.
Brown, Nicholas
philanthropist, was born April 4, 1769, in Providence, R. I.
In honor of Nicholas Brown and in recognition of his gifts, amounting nearly to $100,000, Rhode Island college changed its name to Brown university. He afterward gave two buildings to the university.
He died Sept. 27, 1841.
Brown, Obadiah
merchant, philanthropist, was born July 15, 1771, in Providence, R. I. His benefactions were extended to worthy enterprises in all Christian bodies, although his principal donations were to the Friends' boardingschool, founded by his father, to which he left $100,000 by his will, to form a permanent charitable fund. He died Oct. 15, 1822, in Providence, R. I.
Brown, Oliver Huff
merchant, was born Dec. 12, 1852, in Farmingdale, N. J. He established a house furnishing business in Spring Lake Beach, which is one of the largest of its kind on the New Jersey coast. He is a director of the Spring Lake and Sea Girt Land and Improvement company, and the Deal Beach Land company.
Brown, Olympia
minister, lecturer, was born Jan. 5, 1835, in Prairie Ronde, Mich. Entering the Universalist Theological school at Canton, N. Y., she was graduated and ordained in 1863, and in 1864 was installed as pastor of a church in Weymouth, Mass. In 1869 she became pastor of a church in Bridgeport, Conn., and afterward married Henry Willis. She has since been pastor of churches in the west, lectures frequently, and became president of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage association.
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
physician, was born Jan. 30, 1769, in Rockbridge county, Va.
From 1819 till 1825 he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky.
In medical practice Dr. Brown was instrumental in introducing in the United States the process of lithotrity shortly after its first successful application by French surgeons. He established a medical society in Lexington, and framed for it a code of medical ethics. This body, at first a secret society, was the original of the medical associations of Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore. He died Jan. 12, 1830, in Alabama.