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Democrat, the free-soil organ of northern Ohio. In 1853 he withdrew from that paper, which a year later became the Cleveland Leader. He then established the Ohio Farmer. At the time of his death he was supervisor and special agent of the treasury department in New York City. He died June 13, 1867, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Brown, Thomas, governor. He was the second governor of Florida in 1849-53. He died in Florida.
Brown, Thomas Allston, dramatist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1836, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1861-67 he was dramatic editor of the New York Clipper. He is the author of History of the American Stage; and History of the New York Stage, 1733-1902, in three volumes. Brown, Thomas Edwin, clergyman, author, was born in 1841 in District of Columbia. He is a baptist clergyman of Rochester, N. Y. He is the author of Studies in Modern Socialism and Labor Problems. Brown, Thomas Jefferson, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July S4, 1836, in Jasper county, Ga. In 1888-93 he was a member of the Texas state legislature; and was judge of the state district court in 1893-93. Since 1893 he has been an associate justice of the state supreme court of Texas. Brown, Thomas McKee, clergyman, founder, was born Feb. 8, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1866 he was ordained priest. In 1870 he founded the church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York City. He died Dec. 19, 1898.
Brown, Thomas Wooldridge,
soldier,
law-
was born March 4, 1838, in Shelby county, Ky. He served in the Mexican and civil wars. After the civil war he pracyer, jurist,
law in Memphis, Tenn. Brown, Thompson Skinner, educator, civil engineer, was born Dec. 8, 1806, in Browns-
ticed
N.Y. He was chief engineer of the New York and Erie railroad in 1838-43; and subsequently was employed as consulting engineer of the St. Petersburg and Moscow railroad in Russia, which was built under his instructions. In 1836 he became a civil engineer in the United States army. He died June 30, ville,
1855, in Naples, Italy.
Brown, Thurlow Weed, journalist, author. journalist; and prominent as a temperance advocate. He was the author of Why I Am a Temperance Man; Minnie Herraon, the Landlord's Daughter; and Temperance Tales. He died May 4, 1866, in Fort Atkinson, Wis. Brown, Titus, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1786 in Cheshire county, N.H. He was a member of the state legislature of New Hampshire in 1820. In 183539 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the nineteenth and twentieth congresses. In 1842 he was elected to the state senate; and was made president. He died Jan. 31, 1849, on Francistown, N.H. Brown, Walter Stephens, soldier, was born in Maine. In 1899 he graduated from West
He was a Wisconsin
Point; in 1900 became first lieutenant, and now captain twenty-first regiment. Brown, Tristram Delass, soldier, manufacturer, designer, inventor, was born Oct. 33, 1838, in Elba, N.Y. At the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in company B, fourteenth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry; in 1861 he left Indianapolis for West Virginia; served in nu-
is
battles ; and in 1862 at the battle of Winchester. He was then appointed drillmaster of the one hundred and
merous
was wounded
twenty - ninth regimSince ent New York volunteer infantry. 1889 he has been connected with the Lisk company of Canadaigua, N.Y., of which concern he is superintendent. He has designed and invented numerous articles made from sheet metal has taken out patents and has made a number of original designs not patented. His son, Lewis O. Brown, is president of the Brown oil company of Toledo, Ohio. Brown, W. Cabell, clergyman, bishop. In 1903 he became protestant episcopal missionary bishop of Porto Rico and Cuba. Brown, Webster Everett, lumberman, congressman, was born July 16, 1851, in Peterboro, N.Y. Since 1875 he has been engaged in the lumber business at Rhinelander, Wis. In 1901-07 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and iifty ninth congresses as a republican.
Brown, William, congressman, was born in Frederick county, Va. In 1819-31 he was a representative from Kentucky to the sixteenth congress. He died in Kentucky. Brown, William Adams, clergyman, theologian, author, was born Dec. 39, 1865, in
New York
City. He graduated from Yale university; graduated from the Union theological seminary; and has received the degrees of A.M., Ph.D., and D.D. He is a clergyman of the presbyterian church; and since 1892 has been professor of systematic theology at the Union theological seminary. He is the author of Musical Instruments and Their Home; and the Essence of Christianity. soldier, was born Minnesota. In 1877 he graduated from the United States military academy. He served in the Spanish- American war; and is now major in the third United States cav-
Brown, William Carey,
in
alry.
Brown, William Faulkner, clergyman, was born in New York City. He was educated in as a physician; and during the civil war served as surgeon on the United States steamer Mystic and afterward was examining surgeon at Park barracks, New York. In 1880 he accepted the place of chaplain to St. Joseph's hospital at Patterson. He died Aug. 33, 1881, in Paterson, N.J.
