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Brown, John, patriot, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1736, in Providence, R.I. He was one of the men who captured the Gaspee in Providence river in 1773. He took an active part in the revolution; and was an ardent friend of the constitution. In 1789-93 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the first and second congresses. He died Sept. 20, 1803, in Providence, R.I. Brown, John, soldier, state legislator,

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was

surer and director of the Barry dock company; and president of the Cleveland-Sohaefer company. He is a trustee of the Illinois college of law; and a member of numerous

and societies. Brown, John Alexander, banker, philanthropist, was born May 21, 1788. He was a director of the old United States bank. He acquired a large fortune, and gave more than half a million dollars to benevolent objects. clubs

born Oct. 19, 1744, in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary war; and was a member of the Massachus-

The Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia received a donation from him of three hundred

etts state legislature in 1778. He was killed in battle Oct. 19, 1780, near the Mohawk riv-

Philadelphia, Pa.

er.

16, 1807, in Richfield,

Brown, John, lawyer. United States senatwas born Sept. 12, 1757, in Staunton, Va.

or,

He was

elected a member of the Virginia legislature; and in 1787-88 he was a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress. He was a representative from Virginia to the first federal congress from 1789-91. In 1791-

1805 he was a United States senator; and was the last survivor of the old congress, and was the first member from the Valley of the Mississippi.

He

Ky. Brown, John,

died Aug. 28, 1837, in Frank-

fort,

soldier,

clergyman, educator,

college president, was born June 15, 1763, in Ireland. In 1779 he joined the revolutionary

army

as a volunteer; and fought under GenSumter. In 1809 he was elected professor of logic and moral philosophy in the university of South Carolina. In 1811 he became eral

president of the university of Georgia. He died Dec. 11, 1843, in Fort Gaines, Ga. Brown, John, congressman. In 1810 he was a representative from Maryland to the eleventh congress. 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 October 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 Dee. 2, 1859. Brown, John, congressman, was born in Mifflin county, Pa. In 1821-25 he was a representative from Pennsyvania to the seventeenth and eighteenth congresses. He died in

Pennsylvania.

Brown, John A., lawyer, business presidwas born June 31, 1876, in Tannersville, N.Y. He was educated under private tuition; attended North Division high school ent,

of Chicago, 111.; received the degree of LL. B. Kent college of law; and the degrees of LL. B. and LL.M. from the Illinois college of law. He was clerk in the circuit court of Cook county; and is now engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, 111. He is secretary, trea-

thousand

He

dollars.

died Dec. 31, 1872, in

was born July N.Y. In 1849 he removed to Virginia, where he became prominent in politics in that state. In 1856 he was one of the electors for Fremont; and in 1860 was a delegate to the Chicago convention, where Lincoln was nominated. On his return he was thrown into prison on the charge of circulating incendiary documents. At the beginning of the civil war the confederate authorities offered one thousand dollars for his apprehension. He subsequently received an appointment in Washington. He died Dec. 9, 1867, in Washington, D.C. 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 Brown, John

B., politician,

He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat to fill a vacancy. Brown, John Biindy, banker, state senator, was born May 31, 1805, in Maine. He was president of the Portland savings bank. The board of trade made him its first president; and he was president of the Maine general hospital. He was prominent in the organization of the republican party in Maine; was elected to the Maine state senate in 1856; and was 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 throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major-general. He was president of the state constitutional convention of 1870; and in 1871-75 was the eighteenth governor of Tennessee. In 1876 he was elected vice-president of the Texas and pacific railway company. He died on Aug. 17, 1889, in Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. Brown, John Carter, merchant, philanthropist, was born Aug. 28, 1797, in Providence, R.I. He was part owner of several cotton factories and was interested in business enterras.



New York, Rhode Island, and elsewhere. He gathered a fine library of Americana prior to 1800, which was considered the most complete in the world. He gave one hundred and sixty, thousand dollars to Brown university and on his death left fifty thousand dollars to charitable institutions in

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