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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LIOGRAPHY. now president judge. He Wit and Humor; Wit and Well -Known Quotations; Wit and

gheny, Pa.; and is the author of

Humor Humor

of of

is

Bench and Bar; Humor of Bulls and Blunders; and also numerous poems in current literature.

Brown, Marshall Stewart, educator, authwas born Nov. 6, 1870, in Keene, N.H. In 1893-94 he was professor of history in the university of Michigan; and since 1894 has been professor of history and political scior,

ence in the New York university. He is the author of History of the Zeta Psi Fraternity;

and Epoch Making Papers

in

United

States History.

Brown, Martha McClellan, educator, lecwas born April 16, 1838, in Baltimore, Md. In 1867 she organized and conducted a lecture system; in 1870 originated the temperance cadet movement; in turer, founder,

1869 was an organizer of the prohibition party; in 1877-83 was organizer and lecturer of the national prohibition alliance; in 1874 organized the ftrst woman's temperance association; and in 1874 she founded the national woman's christian temperance union. Brown, Martin Bartholomew, printer, pu-

was born June 25, 1838, in Ireland. In 1856 he established a printing business; and for many years did the greater part of the official printing of the city of New York. In 1868-71 he was warden of the port of New York. He died Dee. 23, 1893, in New York City. Brown, Mrs. Mary L., litterateur, poet, was born March 3, 1840, in Griswold, Conn. She was educated in the public and private schools of New England. She was the daughter of Captain Joseph Frink of Stonington. Conn.; and was the wife of Homer A. Brown of Brownsdale, Minn., prominent in the public and busihis of ness affairs blic oiEcial,

community. She wrote extensively for various magazines and the periodical

press

gen-

and her poems have appeared in local and National Poets of America and other standard works. These poems are to be collected and published in book form, which erally ;

will be a valuable acquisition to poetical literature. She died Aug. 3, 1900, in Brownsdale, Minn.

Brown, Mason, lawyer, Nov.

jurist,

10, 1799, in Philadelphia,

Pa.

was born He was a

judge of the circuit court of his district for many years; and in 1855 he was secretary of state. To his public spirit Frankfort was largely indebted for works of public utility and ornament. He died on Jan. 27, 1867, in Frankfort, Ky. Brown, Matthew, educator, clergyman, college president, was born in 1776 in Northumberland county, Pa. When Washington

college

was chartered

its first president.

He

457

in 1806 he was made resigned in 1816, still

retaining his pastorate. In 1822 he accepted the presidency of Jefferson college of Cannonsburg. Pa. He died on July 20, 1853, in Pittsburg, Pa. In Brown, Melville C, lawyer, jurist. 1901-02 he was judge of the United States district court of Alaska for the first district and was also district judge of the United States court of appeals for the nineteenth distrlot.

Brown, Milton, congressman, was born in He removed to Tennessee; and in 1841-47 he was representative from TennesOhio.

see to the twenty-seventh, the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses.

Brown, Milton, lawyer, statesman, was born May 12, 1854, in Raysville, Ind. In 1876-80 he was deputy recorder and recorder; and the four succeeding years was clerk of the circuit court of Indiana. In 1892-96 he served in the Kansas state senate. He 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., lawyer, jurist, was born in Tennessee. In 1834 he was appointed United States judge for the district comprising that state. Brown, Moses, merchant, historian, was born Sept. 6, 1738, in Providence, R.I. The Alwy and Brown manufactory of Providence has "the merit of being the first in introducing into the United States the celebrated cotton mill. He was a member of the Rhode Island historical society; and wrote for it a sketch of his mill. He died Sept. 6, 1836, in Providence, R.I. Brown, Moses, naval officer, was born Jan. 20, 1742, in Newburyport, Mass. During the revolutionary war he commanded some of the largest privateers of New England; and was engaged in several battles. On the establishment of the United States navy, the merchants of Newburyport built the Merrimack by subscription for the government; and Captain Brown was placed in command. He died Jan. 1, 1804, at sea. Brown, Moses True, educator, author, was born in 1827 in Deerfield, N. H. For thirty years he was professor of oratory at Tufts college of Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of The Synthetic Philosophy of Expression. He died in 1900 in Sandusky, Ohio. Brown, Nathan, lawyer, jurist. In 1825-36 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island. 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; in 1880 was appointed paymaster-general with the rank of brigadiergeneral; and about 1886 he was retired from active service. Brown, Neill S., soldier, diplomat, governor, was born July, 1810, in Giles county.