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BROWN.BROWN. BROWN, Arthur, senator, was born in Prairie Ronde. Midi.. March 8, 1843. He was brought uj) on a farm, attended the district school, fitte.1 liini-self for college, and was gradu- ates! at Antioch college in 1862. He then took a post-graduate liteniry course at the University of Micliigan. received the A.M. degree in 1863, and was graduated at the law school in 1864. He practised law at Kalamazoo until 1879, when he removed to SjiU Lake City, Utah. Upon the admission of the state into the Union he was elected as a Republican to the United States senate, Jan. 22, 1896 and drew the short term ex- piring Marcli 3. 1897.

BROWN, Arthur Lewis, jurist, was born at Providence R. I.. Nov. 28, 18.54. He w;is gi-aduated at Brown University A.B. 1876. A.M. 1879, and at Boston university LL. B. 1878. He practised law at Providence. R.I., 1878-96, when he was ap- pointed L'.S. ju<lge for the district of Rhode Island.

BROWN, Arthur Newton, librarian, was born in Terre Haute. Ind., in 1857. He removed to Springfield. Mass.. with liis parents in 1861 ; was eduaited in the public scliools and was a student at the Mjissachusetts institute of technology, 1876-78. He became assistant librarian in tlie SpringfieUl city library in 1878; clerk in the aud- itors' office of the Mexican central railroad, city of Mexico, in 1883. and was elected a life member of the American library association in 1885. He returned to the United States in August, 1884, and in February, 1885, became executive assist- ant to the chief librarian of Columbia college library. New York. In October, 1885, he was elected assistant manager of the Library bureau at Boston. He was appointed Librarian of the U. S. naval academy in August, 1886, and in Sep- tember, 1895, he was made professor of English in the same institution.

BROWN, Bartholomew, mu.sical composer, was iKjrn at Sterling, Mass., Sept. 8, 1772. He received his diploma from Harvard college in 1799 and practised the law with indifferent suc- cess. His musical talent was of a high order, and besides composing many popular and beau- tiful pieces he a.ssisted in editing the " Bridge- water Collection of Sacred Mu.sic," published in 1812. He was also the author of the calendars used in the " American Farmer's Almanac," for ujiwards of sixty years. He died in Boston, Ma.s.s., April 14, 18.54.

BROWN, Bedford, .senator, was born in Cas- well county, N. C, in 179-5. In 1815 he was elected to the North Carolina house of commons, and was re-elected in 1816, 1817, and 1823. In 1828 he was made a state senator, serving a sec- ond term by re election. He was elected to the United States .senate in 1H29, as successor to Senator Branch, who resigned to accept the port-

folio of the navy in Jackson's cabinet. He was re-elected in 1835, and, resigning his seat in 1840, because of his inability to conscientiously obey the instructions of the general assembly of North Carolina, was elected to the state senate in 1842, and in 1843 was an unsuccessful candidate for U. S. senator. For a time he resided in ^lissouri, but afterwards returned to Caswell coimty. N. C., where he died Dec. 6, 1870.

BROWN, Benjamin Gratz, senator, was born in Lexington, Ky., May 28, 1826; son of Mason Brown, jurist, and grandson of John Brown, U. S. senator from Kentucky. He was gradu- ated from the Tran.sylvania university in 1845, and received a diploma from Yale college in 1847. He studied law in Louisville, obtained admission to the bar, and began practice in St. Louis, Mo., whence he was elected to the state legislature in 1852. He retained his seat for five years, meanwhile rousing violent opposition from the advocates of slavery by his firm and fearless opposition to its extension. Through the columns of the Mifisoiiri Democrat, which he helped to found, and of which he was the editor, he ex- pressed his Free Soil views openly. This course made him many enemies, who threatened his life. When the civil war broke out he volun- teered and raised a regiment, which aided in the capture of Camp Jackson, which he after- wards commanded. He led a brigade of militia against Price and Van Dorn, and organized the movement in the state that led to the new constitution of 1864. In 1863 he was elected to the United States senate, as successor to Robert Wilson, appointed in 1861, and held his seat from November, 1863, xmtil March 3, 1867. In 1871 he was elected governor of Missouri as a liberal Republican, and in tlie ensuing year, was the Democratic candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Horace Greeley, and after his defeat again practised his profession in St. Louis, where lie died Dec. 13, 1885.

BROWN, Buckminster, surgeon, was born in Boston, Mass., July 13, 1819. He was graduated at t'ne Harvard medical school in 1844, and then studied in London, Paris, and Germany. On his return to America he gave his attention to orthopredic surgery, in which he was very suc- cessful. In one case where no cotyloid cavities existed, he succeeded in inducing their forma- tion, so that all motion became normal. He was a member of the Boston medical association, of the Suffolk district medical society, and of the Mas.sachasetts medical society. He made many valuable contributions to various publications, in the shape of scientific treatises, among them a pa])er entitled, " The Poetry of Anatomy," for the North Ajiierican Review in 1856. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 24, 1891.