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He was a volunteer in the Florida of 1836-37. In 1842-44 lie was a representative in the Tennessee state legislature, and in 1844 was a presidential elector. In 1847-49 he was the eleventh governor of Tenn.

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Tennessee. In 1850-54 he was minister to Russia. In 1855 he was elected to the Tennessee state legislature ; and became speaker of the house. He died Jan. 30, 1886, in Nashville,

Tenn.

Brown, Nicholas, donor, philanthropist, was born April 4, 1769, in Providence, R.I. In honor of Nicholas Brown and in recognition of his gifts, amounting nearly to one hundred thousand dollars, Rhode Island college changed its name to Brown university. He afterward gave two buildings to the university.

He

died Sept. 27, 1841, in

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Brown, Norris, lawyer. United States senwas born May 2, 1863, in Maquoketa, Iowa. In 1883 he began the practice of law; and in 1907 was elected United States senator from Nebraska for the term of 1907-13. Brown, Obadiah, merchant, philanthropist, was born July 15, 1771, in Providence, R.I. His benefactions were extended to worthy enterprises in all Christian bodies. His principal donations were the Friends boardingschool, founded by his father, to which he left one hundred thousand dollars by his will to form a permanent charitable fund.

ator,

He

died Oct. 15, 1822, in Providence, R.I.

Brown, Obadiah Buren, educator musician, composer, was born July 2, 1829, in Washington, D.C. He was a teacher of music in the state normal schools at Salem, Bridgewater, and at Framingham, Mass. He was an organist in Boston and Maiden, Mass. He is the author of several popular collecttions of school songs.

Brown, Oren Britt, lawyer, jurist, was born June 22, 1853, in Orleans county, N.Y. He received his education at the Denison university of Granville, Ohio; and at the Princeton college of New Jersey. Since 1878 he has been engaged in the practice of law and is one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Dayton, where he is a judge of the common pleas court for the second Ohio district. Brown, Orville Harry, physician, pharinacologist, scientist, was born July 18, 1875, in Sabetha, Kan. He graduated with the degree of A.B. from the university of Kansas studied medicine and science at the university of Chicago and at the university of St. Louis; and has received the degrees of M.D. and Ph.D. He is physician-in-chief of the Missouri state sanitarium for incipient tuberculosis; and was associate medicinal director of the Mount Rose hospital for consumptives. He has traveled abroad; and taken post-graduate studies and made medicinal researches. He is the author of Monographs on physiological, pharmacological and medi;

cinal subjects.

Brown, Orvon sident,

Graff, educator, college pre1, 1863, in Greensburg,

was born July

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Pa. In 1882-85 he was professor of science in the Cincinnati Wesleyan college, of which institution his father, the late Rev. W. K. Brown, was president. He organized and procured the charter for Twin Valley college of Germantown, Ohio, of which institution he has been president since its organization.

Brown, Paul, manufacturer, philanthropwas born Aug. 20, 1848, in Eldora, Ark. He engaged in the general merchandise business; and then engaged in the manufacture ist,

of tobacco. He is the president of the Brown tobacco company of St. Louis, Mo. Brown, Mrs. Phoebe Hinsdale, hymn writer, was born in 1783 in Canaan, N.Y. She was a hymn writer remembered for her popular religious lyric, I Love to Steal Awhile Away. She died Oct. 10, 1861, in Henry, III.

Brown, Philip Perry, soldier, was born in York. In 1862 he was colonel in the one hundred and fifty-seventh regiment New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died on

New

April

9,

1881.

illustrator, artist, was born July 16, 1865, in Groton, Conn. For awhile he taught manual training and woodwork at the normal training school for Indians at Sante Agency, Neb. He was at various times in charge of the art department of the Chicago Times-Herald, New York Evening Journal and New York Morning Journal; and is now acting as art director of Everybody's Magazine of New York City. He has illustrated a Book of Child's Songs; Stage Lyrics; and American Merchant Ships and

Brown, Ray,

Sailors.

Brown, Robert,

soldier, state senator, con-

gressman, was born in 1745 in Northampton county. Pa. He was appointed at the beginning of the revolution an officer in the Pennsylvania flying; and was made prisoner on Long Island. He was made brigadier-general of the state militia; and was a member of the state senate for some time. In 17981815 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifth to the thirteenth congress-

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es.

died Feb. 26, 1823, in Northampton,

Pa.

Brown, Mrs. Ruth Mowry, writer, author, was born June 16, 1867, in Providence, R.I. She is the author of Corner Stones of America; and The Bible in Lessons and Stories. Brown, S. Lockwood, soldier, was born in Ohio. In 1861 he was captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers; in 1864 was colonel and quartermaster assigned; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

Brown, Samuel, physician, was born Jan. Rockbridge county, Va. In 181925 he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Transylvania university of Lexington, Ky. In medical practice he was instrumental in introducing in the United States the process of lithotomy shortly after its first successful application by French sur30, 1769, in