Alexander Brown

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Born at Glenwood, Nelson County, Virginia, Alexander Brown was deafened while serving in the Confederate Army in the explosion of a powder-boat near Fort Fisher, N.C. He married Caroline Augusta Cabell and after her death, Sarah Randolph Cabell. He was the author of The Genesis of the United States, The First Republic in America, The Cabells and Their Kin and other works.

From the guide to the Alexander Brown Papers (1), 1815-1910., (Special Collections, College of William and Mary)

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associatedWith Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901 person
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associatedWith Cabell, Mayo. person
associatedWith Cable family family
associatedWith Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-1903 person
associatedWith Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 person
associatedWith Lynchburg Female Seminary. corporateBody
associatedWith Mayo Cabell and Co. (Lynchburg, Va.) corporateBody
associatedWith Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 person
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