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Brown, John (95)

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Epithet: King's Painter Epithet: private in the 51st regiment Epithet: attendant on Qu Victoria Epithet: of Monkwearmouth Epithet: Provost of Kilmarnock Epithet: Secretary, Lancashire and Cheshire Philharmonic Institute Epithet: ship-broker, of Liverpool Epithet: Captain; Lincoln Militia Epithet: DD; Moderator of the Pr...

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Brown, John, 1800-1859 (311)

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his...

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Brown, John (82)

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John Brown was a grocer and pharmacist in Warren, Ohio in the early 1800s. John Brown was a Philadelphia miller. John Brown was a private in Company E. of the 4th Massachusetts Infantry, which was mustered into service September 26, 1862, and mustered out August 28, 1863. American abolitionist. The town of Sarah, proposed by the proprietor, Mr. John Brown, was to be located "in the Southwest part of the No...

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Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969 (71)

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Brown was an American author born in Louisville, Ky. in 1900. He graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post (1929-1941) and New York World (1941-1942) and was a columnist and editor for Saturday Review (1944-1969). He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy beginning in 1942 and took part in the invasions of Africa, Sicily, and Normandy. Brown also served on the Pulitzer Prize drama jury in 1963 but resigned when the advisory board refus...

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Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904 (61)

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John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Confederate General, Georgia Governor (1886-1890), and U.S. Senator (1873-1880, 1891-1897), born in Upson County, Georgia. One of Georgia's most renowned political and military figures of the nineteenth century, John Brown Gordon was born on a plantation situated along the banks of the Flint River in Upson County on February 6, 1832. As a child he moved with his family to Walker County, in the northwestern corner of the state, where his fat...

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Brown, W. J. (William John) (46)

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Brown, John, 1757-1837 (29)

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John Brown (September 12, 1757 – August 29, 1837) was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in the development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War. Brown represented Virginia in the Continental Congress from 1787 to 1788 and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 to 1792. While in Congress, he introduced the bill granting Statehood to Kentucky. Once that was accomplished, he was elected by the new state legislature as a U.S. Senator for...

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Brown, John, 1810-1882 (28)

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Brown was a Scottish physician and author. Scottish physician.

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Brown, John Young, 1835-1904 (37)

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Governor of Kentucky and lawyer.

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Brown, John, 1821-1895 (24)

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Farmer and soldier; son of John Brown, the abolitionist; b. at Hudson, Ohio; moved with brother Owen Brown to Osawatomie, Kan., 1855 where was elected a member of the legislature; led group of militia to the relief of Lawrence, Kan., after it had been "sacked" by a pro-slavery force; served with the Kansas Brigade during the Civil War but was forced to resign because of illness; did not participate in the Harper's Ferry raid; in 1862 purchased a ten-acre plot on the south shore of South Bass...

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