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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Brown, Jacob, educator, surveyor, soldier, 9, 1775, in Bucks county, Pa. He entered the army in the war of 1812; and

was born May

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1813 was made brigadier-general in the regular army, and in 1815 assigned to the army of the Niagara, with the rank of major-general. He was appointed general-inchief of the United States army, which position he held until his death. He and his brother Samuel surveyed and founded Brownville, N.Y.; and under his direction roads to Utica and Rome were opened. He died Feb. 27, 1828, in B'rownville, N.Y. Brown, James, publisher, was bom May 19, 1800, in Acton, Mass. He was a member of the publishing house of Charles C. Little

and company, afterward Little and Brown, and remained in connection with it until his death. The specialty of the firm to which Mr. Brown belonged was the publication of law books and the importation of foreign editions in the general trade. A life of Mr. Brown, by George S. Hillard, was published in Boston in 1855. He died March 10, 1855, in Acton, Mass. Brown, James, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born on Sept. 11, 1766, near

Staunton, Va. He was secretary of the territory of Louisiana after its acquisition. This led him to New Orleans, which became his home. He was appointed United States attorney for the district of Louisiana. He was appointed a territorial judge in 1804; and in 1813-17 and 1819-25 he was United States senator from Louisiana. He died April 7, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. Brown, James, banker, was born in February, 1791, in Ireland. He became one of the representative bankers of New York City. In the panic of 1837, the English branch of the firm was able to secure a loan of ten million dollars from the Bank of England, which enabled the local firm to weather the financial storm without suspension, and placed them in the front rank of the bankers of the world. The house had branches in Baltimore and Philadelphia in this country and in Eng;

land.

He

died Nov.

1,

1877, in

New York

City.

Brown, James Henry, lawyer, statesman, was born Dec. 25, 1818, in Cabell co-

jurist,

unty, Va.,

now West Va. He was educated at the Marietta college of Ohio; and in 1840

he duly graduated from the Augusta college of

Kentucky. He was commissioned a captain in the Virginia militia by Governor Gilmer ; and during the civil war adhered to the

union.

He has been

member

a

numerous conventions; he was a of

member of the state legislature of Virginia in 1861-62; and was at the same time a member of the constitutional convention which framed the first con-

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West Virginia. He next was elected a judge of the Kanawha circuit; then became one of the justices of the supreme court of appeals; and subsequently became president of the court. He died in 1907 in Charleston, W.Va. Brown, James Allen, educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1821, in Lancaster county. Pa. He was professor in Gettysburg seminary in 1864-77; and became sole editor of the Lutheran Quarterly. He was the author of The New Theology and other religious works. He died June 19, 1882, in Lancaster, Pa. Brown, James Muncastor, banker, donor, was born Dec. 8, 1820, in Baltimore, Md. In 1877 he became head of the banking house of Brown brothers and company of New York City. He was donor to many religious and charitable institutions. He was president of the New York hospital and of Bloomington asylum. He died July 19, 1890, in Manchester, Vt. 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 1863-65 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-eighth congress. He died in 1878 in stitution of



Milwaukee, Wis. Brown, James W., manufacturer, congressman, was born July 4, 1844, in Pittsburg, Pa. All his life he has been connected with the iron and steel business at Pittsburg, Pa. In 1903-05 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-eighth congress. Brown, Jason Brevoort, lawyer, orator, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1839, in Dillsboro, Ind. He took part as a public speaker in all of the political campaigns in his state since 1862; and was a member of the Indiana house of representatives in 1862-66. 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. In 1889-95 he was a" representative from Indiana to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fiftycongresses as a democrat. He died 10, 1898, in Seymour, Ind. Brown, Jeremiah, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1776 in Pennsylvania. He served in the state legislature of Pennsylvania; and was a member of one or two state conventions. He was the first associate judge elected by the people. In 1841-45 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses. He died March 2, 1848, in Lancaster, Pa. Brown, Jessie 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 in Ohio. He is the author of Norman McDonthird

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Woman's Doing; Roderick Wayne; and Runaway.

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