Brown, Samuel Gilman – Brown, William Mason
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, Seth W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1843, in Waynesville, Ohio. He was a member of company H, seventyninth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Warren county in 1880 and re-elected in 1882.
He was elected representative in the general assembly in 1883 and re-elected in 1885, being member of the finance committee of a a the house for four years and chairman of that committee during his second term.
He was chosen presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in 1888 and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
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.
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, Thomas S
lawyer, author, was born June 5, 1852, in Zanesfield, Ohio.
In 1873 he graduated from the Earlham college of Richmond, Ind.; and was admitted to the bar in 1881. He practiced law in Bellefontaine, Ohio, until 1889, when he moved to Topeka, Kan. In 1893 he continued his law practice in Kansas City, Mo., giving special attention to patent law and law of municipal bonds. He is the author of a number of articles and papers on Tariff and other economic and legal questions; and many poems of rare merit have emanated from his pen.
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, Walter L
merchant, state senator, was born Sept. 5, 1845, in Carlisle, N. Y. For twenty years he conducted a hardware store in Oneonta, N. Y., covering a whole block, and was the largest of its kind in his county. For a number of years he has been first lieutenant in the New York state guards; was president of the town board; and during 1888-91 served with distinction in the New York state assembly; and subsequently was elected to the state senate.
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 G
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1801, in Preston county, Va. In 1832 he was elected to the legislature of Virginia; served again in that capacity from 1840 to 1843; and and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1845 to 1849. In 1850 he was a member of the Virginia state convention; in 1860 a delegate to the Charleston convention, and also to that held in Baltimore; and was also a delegate to the Virginia convention of 1861, and opposed the action of the secessionists. On his return home he was elected a representative to the thirtyseventh congress; and in 1863 was reelected to the thirty-eighth congress as a representative from West Virginia.
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 J
journalist, public official, congressman, was born in 1805 in Kentucky. He was at one time secretary of state for Indiana, and a member of the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1849 to 1851.
He was assistant postmaster-general under President Polk. He was editor of the Indiana Sentinel; state librarian of Indiana; and, at the time of his death special agent of the post office department for Indiana and Illinois. He died March 18, 1857, in Indianapolis, Ind.
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.
Brown, William Mason
landscape painter, was born Sept. 14, 1826, in Troy, N. Y. He received his education in the Lancasterian school of Troy, N. Y. At the age of twentyfive he began the study of art, and has attained eminence as a painter of landscapes and still life.
His paintings have been exhibited in the various expositions for the past quarter of a century; and he has received numerous awards. His studio is in Brooklyn, N. Y., in which city he is an honored member of the various art institutes. /