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 HERBINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Brown, George, naval

officer,

was born June

He

participated in the hazardous ascent of the Mississippi river under Farragut ; and in the first attck on Vicksburg in 1862. He was promoted lieutenantcommander in 1862; and shortly afterward was placed in charge of the Indianola ironclad, which was captured by the confederates Feb. 24, 1863. He was promoted commander in 1866, captain in 1877, commodore in 1887, rear-admiral in 1893, and was retired in 1897. Brown, George Eugene, educator, college president, was born May 18, 1867, in Mason City, Iowa. He has occupied positions of teacher, county superintendent, editor and president of the Midland normal school; and is well known as a writer on educational topics. Brown, George H., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a member of the convention which formed the state constitution of 1844. In 1851-53 he was a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-second congres^. In 1861 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. He died in New Jersey. Brown, George Loring, painter, artist, was born Feb. 2, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He spent twenty years in Antwerp, Kome, Florence, Paris and London; and returned to the United States in 1860 with a high reputation as a landscape painter at home and abroad. Among his more important pictures are The Bay 19, 1835, in Indiana.

of

New

York; The Crown of

New

England;

Venice; Sunset, Genoa; Niagara by Moonlight; Capri; Doge's Palace at Sunset; and Doge's Palace at Sunrise. He died June 25, 1889, in Maiden, Mass. Brown, George Pliny, educator, publisher, author, was born Nov. 10, 1836, in Lenox, Ohio. Since 1855 he has been engaged in educational work as superintendent of city schools and as president of the normal school. Since 1886 he has been president of the Public school publishing company of Bloomington, 111.; and is the editor of the School and Home Education. He is the author of Story of Our English Grandfathers; The King and His Wonderful Castle and Elements of Eng;

lish

Grammar.

Brown, George Warren, merchant, manufacturer, was bom March 21, 1853, in DanN.Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools and through private tuition. He is president of the Brown shoe company of St. Louis, Mo.; a director in the Mercantile trust company of St. Louis; and in several other organizations for the upbuilding of that city. He has taken a leading part in maintaining religious and charitable institutions; has been president of the St. Louis young men's christian association; president of the board of trustees of the Union methodist episcopal church; and is a leading member of various other organizations. ville,

Brown, George William,

was bom

soldier,

lawyer,

Oct. 13, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. He became mayor of Baltimore in 1860; and was instrumental in restoring jurist, author,

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the peace of the city during the riots that occurred at the beginning of the civil war. He was a member of the Maryland constitutional convention in 1867; and was chief judge of the supreme court of Baltimore city in 1873-88. He was the author of The Origin and Growth of Civil Liberty in Maryland. He died Sept. 6, 1890, at Lake Mohawk, N.Y. Brown, Glenn, architect, author, was born Sept. 13, 1854, in Fauquier county, Va. Since 1879 he has been engaged in architectural work in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland and South Carolina. He is the author of A History of the United States Capitol.

Brown, Goold, educator, author, was born 7, 1791, in Providence, R.I. He removed to New York City in 1813, where for over twenty years he conducted an academy. He was the author of Grammar of English

March

Grammars; Institutes of English Grammar; and First Lines of English Grammar. He died March 31, 1857, in Lynn, Mass. Brown, Grace Mann, educator, author, was born April 16, 1859, in Pippin, Wis. She is a student and teacher of occult philosophy. She is the author of Studies in Spiritual Harmony; Food Studies; Seven Steps; Life Lessons; and Soul Songs. Brown, Harvey, soldier, was born in New York. He enlisted in the United States army in 1818 as second lieutenant in the light artillery. In 1861 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier -general; and in 1866 became major-general.

He

died

March

31, 1874.

Brown, Helen Dawes, lecturer, author, was born in Concord, Mass. She is a lecturer on English literature in New York City. She is the author of The Petrie Estate, a novel; Two College Girls; Little Miss Phoebe Gay; and A Civilian Attache. Brown, Henry Armitt, lawyer, orator, author,

was born Dec.

1,

1844, in Philadelphia,

He was a lawyer and orator of Philadelphia. He -lA'as the author of Four Historical Orations. He died Aug. 21, 1879, in PhiladelPa.

phia, Pa.

Brown, Henry

educator, college presidOct. 6, 1847, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In 1871 he graduated from the national normal university of Lebanon, Ohio. In 1886 he was professor of mathematics in the northwestern normal school of Republic, Ohio. In 1873 he ent, founder,

B.,

was born

founded

and

became

president of the northern Indiana normal school at Valparaiso, Ind. In 1901 the name of this institution was changed to the Valparaiso college; and in 1904 to the Valparaiso university. This institution ias become wellknown throughout the United States and has been a blessing to thousands who have