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BROWN.BROWN. 1S40 lie went to Albany, where he executed portrait busts of local statesmen and two ideal statues. Through the aid of friends he was en- abled to spend several years in Italy, where he executed his "Ruth," a group consisting of a boy and a dog which is in the possession of the New York historical society, and studied faithfully and profitably from 1842 to 1846. when he returned to the United States, and opened a studio in New York, and with the aid of skilled workmen from Europe made the fir.st bronze casts ever attempted in America. He executed an altar piece for the Church of the Annunciation, and portrait busts of William CuUen Bryant and Dr. Willard Parker. He then settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he exe- cuted many commissions for monumental art and he perfected the casting in bronze. He spent 1848 among the Indians, where he obtained some excellent life casts. In 1850-'52 he was engaged on the statue of DeWitt Clinton for Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, the first bronze statue ever executed in the United States. He executed the equestrian statue of Washington in Union square, N. Y., finished in 1855, when he went to Columbia, S. C, to execute a group for the pediment of the state house. Of this group he had finished the ideal figure of South Caro- lina, when riunors of the civil war determined him to return to his home. This figure was destroyed by Sherman's troops in 1865. He served as a member of the national art commis- sion, appointed by President Buchanan, 1859-'60, in the U. S. sanitary commission through the civil war; and was sculptor of state statues of Lin- coln, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and Union square. New York, Gens. George Clinton, Winfield Scott and Philip Kearny; equestrian statues of Gens. Winfield Scott and Nathanael Greene, and statues of Dr. George W. Bethune and Richard Stockton, and " The Resurrection." He died at Newburg. N. Y., July 10, 1886.

BROWN, Isaac Van Arsdale, clergyman, was b<jrn in Somer.set county, N. J., Nov. 4, 1784. He was graduated from Princeton college in 1802, and studied for the Presbyterian ministry. His first pa.storate was at Lawrenceville, N. J., where in 1810 he founded a cla.ssical school. In 1842 he engaged in literary work at ^It. Holly, and suVjse([uently removed to Trenton, N. J. He became a member of the American Bible society at its organization, and aided in establishing the American colonization society. His published ■writings include: "The Unity of the Human Race," "Historical Vindication of the Abro- gation of the Plan of Union by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Amerira," and a life of Robert Finley, D.D. (18.",). He died in Trenton, N. J.. April 19, 1861

BROWN, J. Appleton, artist, was born at West Newbury, Mass., July 12, 1844. In liis boy- hood he showed unmistakable talent for drawing and ])ainting, and this talent liis parents were careful to encourage. He was graduated from the high school in Newburyport, and in 1865 went to Boston, where, with Mr. B. C. Porter, he opened a studio. In 1866 he went abroad, where he spent some time drawing in the Louvre, and in 1867 began to study under Lambinet. In 1868 he returned to his studio in Boston, where he remained until his marriage in 1874 to Agnes Bartlet, an artist of talent. With his wife he visited Paris, where they remained a year. A picture painted at Calva- dos, entitled, " Le Bord de la Mer, d Dives," was exhibited and sold from the salon of 1875. " L'Etd " was also hung in the same salon. Annual exhibitions of his paintings were made in Boston. In 1879 he illustrated '* Land- scape in American Poetry," by Lucy Larcom, published by the Appletons. In 1886 he spent the summer painting in England. He was elected a member of tlie Society of American artists, asso- ciate national academician, and member of New York water-color club. He was awarded a medal by the W^orld's Columbian exposition, and won several medals in Boston. He removed to New York city in 1891. Among his paintings are: " A View, Dives Calvados, France " (1875); "Old Road near Paris " (1875) ; " On the Merrimac at Newburyport, Autumn," " Storm at the Isle of Shoals," "Glen Mill Brook, Byfield, Mass." He died in New York city Jan. 18, 1902.

BROWN, Jacob, soldier, was born in Bucks county. Pa., May 9, 1775; son of Samuel Brown. His mother was the daughter of a celebrated Quaker preacher named W^right; a woman of strong and sterling character. During the earlier part of his life he supported himself by teaching. In 1796 he went to Ohio as a land sur- veyor, remaining there two years, when he returned to New York and took charge of a Friends' school there. He there became ac- quainted with many of the brilliant men of the day. Gouverneur Morris depicted to him the greatness of New York above all the other commonwealths, and induced him to purchase a tract of land on the St. Lawrence frontier, where he founded a settlement which became the flourishing village of Brownville. He was elected county judge, and having had considerable military experience, while sec- retary to Gen. Alexander Hamilton, he was made colonel of the regiment of his militia di.strict iqt 1809, and was promoted brigadier-general in the state militia in 1810. In 1812 Ceneral Brown raised a brigade, and was ai)pointed com- mander of the frontier from Oswego to Lake