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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. He established a medical society in Lexington, and framed for it a code of medical ethics. This body, at first a secret society; was the original of the medical associations of Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore. He died Jan. 12, 1830, in Alabama. Brown, Samuel Oilman, clergyman, college president, author, was born Jan. 4, 1813, in North Yarmouth, Maine. He was a congregational clergyman; and president of Hamilton college in 1867-81. He was the author of Biography of Self -Taught Men; and Life of Rufus Choate. He died in 1885 in Maine. Brown, Samuel Horton, physician, author, was born No. 16, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1899-1900 he was resident physician at the Howard hospital. He has been assistant dermatologist in Philadelphia and University hospitals; dermatologist in the Northern and Southern dispensaries; and consulting dermatologist in the Methodist orphanage. He is the author of Eczema and It's Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment. Brown, Samuel R., missionary, author, was born in 1810, in Conneticut. In 1838 he went as a missionary to China; and founded the first protestant school in that country, the Morrison Chinese school for boys, at Canton, of which he was the head in 1838-47. He translated the bible into Japanese; and prepared grammars entitled Colloquial JapanHe died in 1880 in Monson, Mass. ese. Brown, Samuel R,, soldier, author, was born in 1775. He was a volunteer during the View war of 1812. He was the author of of the Campaigns of the Northwestern Army; and History of the War 1812, in two volumes. He died Sept. 15, 1817, in Cherry Valley, N.Y. Brown, Scott, soldier. He attained the rank of brigadier-general during the civil war. He died Dec. 28, 1891, in Frankfort,

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Ky. Brown, Seth W., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1843, in Waynesville, Ohio. He was a member of company H. seventy-ninth regiment of Ohio volunteer infan-

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Brown, Solyman, clergyman, dentist, auwas born Nov. 17, 1790, in Litchfield, Conn. In 1832 he removed to New York City where he preached Swedenborgianism; in 1832 began to practice dentistry; and was co-editor of Journal of Dental Science. He published an essay on American poetry, together with some miscellanies and Dental Hygeia, a poem on the general laws of health. thor,



died in 1876 in New York City. Brown, Stimson J., educator, mathematician, was born in 1854 in Penn Yan, N.Y. In

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1879-81 he served in the United States coast and geodetic survey; and in 1883 was professor of mathematics in the United States

naval academy at Annapolis, Md. In 18981901 he was director of the United States naval observatory and the Nautical Almanac.

Brown, Tarleton, soldier of the revolution, was born in 1754 in Barnwell district, S.C. He served through the war of independence, attaining the rank of captain. His Memoirs, with notes by Charles J. Bushnell, contain interesting and original information in relation to the events of his time in the Carolinas. He died in 1846 in South Carolina.

Brown, Theodore Frelinghuysen, soldier, was born in Illinois. In 1861 he was second lieutenant in the fifty-first regiment Illinois infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Brown, Theron, clergyman, author, poet, was born April 29, 1832, in Williamantie, Conn. For ten years he was pastor of Baptist churches in Framington and Canton, Mass. For over a quarter of a century he has been one of the editors of the Youth's Companion. He has written a. number of •books for young people, the most notable of which are The Red Shanty Boys; The Blount

Family; and Walter Neil's Example. He ia also the author of a collection of poems entitled Life Songs.

Brown, Thomas, colonial author, was bom about 1740. He was a resident of Charlestown, Mass. In 1757 he was captured by the Indians, after being wounded in an engagement between the French and English; He

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He was prosecuting attorney for Warren county in 1880-

was held in captivity for nearly four years; and then returned to his father's house. The narrative of his adventures, written by himself, is perhaps the rarest of American books

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Delaware.

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Ohio to the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth congresses as a republican.

in 1814.

Brown, Simeon Batcheldor, soldier, was New Hampshire. In 1862 he was major in the sixth regiment Michigan cavalry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general

28, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. Brown, Thomas, lawyer, journalist, founder, was born about 1819 in Ohio. He took a prominent part in the free-soil movement

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