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BROWN.BROWN. BROWN, Goold, grammarian, was born at Providence, R. I., March 7, 1T91. After receiv- ing an academic education he taught school, first in his native state, and in 1811 in a Friends* board- ing school in Dutchess county, N. Y. In 1813 he accepted a position as principal of an academy in New York city, and finding no English gram- mar which satisfied him he prepared a new one, which was adopted by instructors all over the country. He is the author of " Institutes of Eng- lish Grammar " (1823, '32, '46); " First Lines of English Grammar " (1823, '27) ; " A Grammar of English Grammars" (1850-'51), and other grammatical treatises. He died in Lynn, Mass. , March 31, 1857.

BROWN, Harvey, soldier, was born at Rah- way, N. J., in 1795. He was graduated from West Point, July 24, 1818, and was promoted 2d lieutenant of light artillery. He served in gar- rison at Boston^ and at New London, Conn., and later was placed on commissary duty at St. Au- gustine, Fla. He was also aide-de-camp to Major-General Brown. In 1821, when the army was re-organized, he was made 2d lieutenant of the 1st artillery, and on August 23 was pro- moted 1st lieutenant. In 1831 he was given the brevet rank of captain for ten years' faithful service. He served in the Florida war, in camp near Trenton, N. J., on the northern frontier, on garrison duty, and was present at the principal engagements during the war with Mexico, receiving, for gallantry in the battle of Con- treras, the brevet rank of lieutenant -colonel. In September, 1847, he was brevetted colonel for services at the Gate of Belen, city of Mexico, and from 1849 to 1851 he had command of the general depot for recruits at Fort Columbus, New York harbor. In January, 1851, he was promoted major of 2d artillery, and in 1852 was on duty in Florida, remaining there until 1857. From then until the civil war he was on garrison and other duty, and in April, 1861, was promoted lieutenant-colonel of 4th artillery. The follow- ing year he was made colonel, and in September declined a promotion to the rank of brigadier- general, receiving this rank by brevet, however, a few months later. He was engaged in the repulse of the Confederate attack on Santa Rosa Island, Fla., October 9, and in the bombard- ment of Fort Pickens, Nov. 22-23, 1861. and Jan. 1, 1862. As military commander of New York city, he was active in suppressing the draft riots of 1863. He retired from active service Aug. 1,

1863, and the next day was brevetted major- general in the regular army. From June 29,

1864, to Nov. 9, 1866, he was in waiting orders, and then served as superintendent of the recruiting service until April 5, 1867. He died in Clifton (S. L), N. Y., March 31, 1874.

BROWN, Henry Armitt, orator, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 1, 1844. He was gradu- ated from Yale college in 1865, and admitted to the bar in 1869. He made an extended trip through Europe. On his return to America he settled in Philadelphia, where he acquired a large practice and a wide reputation as an eloquent speaker. He was much sought as a campaign and memorial orator, and delivered addres.ses at various anniversaries and centennials. Several of these orations were collected by J. M. Hoppin, professor of Yale college, and published in 1880. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 21, 1879.

BROWN, Henry Billings, jurist, was born at Lee, Mass., March 2, 1836; son of Billings Brown, a manufacturer. He was graduated at Yale in 1856, and spent a year in Europe, studying lan- guages and travelling extensively on the con- tinent. He began his law studies at the law school in New Haven and finishad them at Harvard, where he received his degree. In 1859 he went to De- troit, and in 1861 was appointed deputy U. S. marshal and assistant district attorney. He held the latter oflSce until 1868, when Gov- ernor Crapo appointei him to fill a vacancy in the Wayne circuit court. In 1875 Presi- dent Grant appointed him U. S. district

judge. As an admiralty lawyer he became a recognized authority and compiled a volume of "Admiralty Reports" (1875). Upon the death of Mr. Justice Miller of the U. S. supreme court. Oct. 14, 1890, President Harrison appointed Judge Brown as his successor, and he was com- missioned, Dec. 29, 1890. In 1887 the University of Micliigan gave him the degree LL.D. He compiled Broion's Admiralty Reports.

BROWN, Henry Kirke, sculptor, was born at Leyden, Mass., Feb. 24, 1814. He received the ordinary training of a farmer's boy, and made his first attempt in art when a lad of twelve years. The materials used were of the coarsest descrip- tion, but his portrait of an old man was a suc- cess. His mother encouraged his love for art. In 1832 he went to Boston and studied portrait painting under Chester Harding. He then engaged as a civU engineer on the Illinois Central railroad, and afterwards studied an- atomy in Cincinnati. For his own amusement he modelled the head of a lady in clay, and his success determined him to become a sculptor. In

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