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inal building, ruining in stock, machinery and building over five hundred thousand dollars' worth of property. Fortunately for him, Mr. Brown, with his customary shrewdness, had insured his sugar works in English and Scotch companies, and consequently received in gold his insurance money. This he immediately in- vested in rebuilding his works on the same site. In declining to avail himself of the im- provements in machinery in fitting his new sugar house, Mr. Brown made, as events proved, a financial mistake. He soon found that with the old methods he could not com- pete with the new sugar-refining companies which had been started in the city, and after a determined and useless struggle he closed the manufacture of sugar entirely. In 1871 he established a private banking house under the firm name of J. B. Brown & Sons, the sons being Philip Henry and John Marshall. This banking house was first located on Ex- change street and later removed into the Fal- mouth Hotel building. This magnificent hotel was completed by Mr. Brown in 1868, and on July 15th of that year, on the occasion of its opening, Mr. Brown was tendered by prominent citizens a testimonial dinner. For a time Mr. Brown lived in a house on the corner of Oak and Spring streets, opposite the residence of his former partner, St. John Smith, but in 1860 he built a fine residence on the Western promenade, overlooking Bramhall Hill, which he named Bramhall, in honor of one of the original settlers bearing that name, and there he lived the remainder of his life. To specify the number of buildings in Port- land which owe their existence to Mr. Brown would not only require much space, but would be almost impossible. His reputation as a builder was early established and increased as the year passed. He was undoubtedly the largest real estate owner in the city or state. At the time of his death he was contemplating the erection of three new blocks. His tax for the year 1880, as shown by the books of the city treasurer, was more than one-thirtieth of the whole tax of the city, so that when it is remembered that Mr. Brown went to Port- land a poor boy, in possession of no special educational advantages, his remarkable and untiring energy becomes apparent. He was every ready to aid in the promotion of any meritorious local enterprises and his sagacity and foresight were invaluable to them. He was once president of the Atlantic & St. Law- rence railroad, was a director of the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad, and of the Maine Cen- tral, as well as a stockholder in both roads.
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At one time he had a large interest in the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Company, of New York, and was a director of the Erie railroad. He was also interested in the Port- land, Saco & Portsmouth railroad. For years he had been a director in the First National Bank of Portland. He was for a long time one of the trustees of Bowdoin College and established there the Brown memorial scholar- ship, which is eligible only to graduates of the Portland high school. He was president of the Maine General Hospital. In 1843 he be- came a member of Laconia Lodge of Odd Fellows. He was too much engaged in busi- ness to seek political honors to which his re- markable talents warranted his aspiration, but was elected to the state senate for one term. Though not a professor of religion, Mr. Brown inclined toward the Congregational faith, and was a regular attendant at High Street Church, toward the support of which he was a liberal contributor. Mr. Brown was in every sense a thorough business man. His naturally keen intellect enabled him to see the end of a business enterprise from the beginning. In his death Portland lost one of the most suc- cessful business men that ever lived in that city. He died from a fall while passing from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Clifford, to his own home just across the street. The concussion caused the rupture of a blood vessel in his head and he died a few hours later. John Brown married, in 1830, Ann Matilda Greely, daughter of Philip Greely, of Portland. Of this union were born four children : James Olcott, Philip Henry, John Marshall. Ellen Greely, who married William Henry Clifford.
(VII) General John Marshall, third son of John Bundy and Ann Matilda (Greely) Brown, was born in Portland, December 14, 1838, and died at his summer residence in Falmouth, July 20, 1907. He attended the public schools, Gould's Academy, at Bethel, and Phillips Andover Academy. He entered Bowdoin in 1858 and graduated in the famous class of 1860, with Judge Symonds, Hon. Amos L. Allen, Colonel Thomas Hubbard, of New York, Judge Burbank, Saco, Ex-speaker Thomas B. Reed, and others. He was class orator of Phillips Exeter and winner of the declamation prizes of the sophomore and jun- ior years, and elected class orator on grad- uation at Bowdoin. He began the study of law in the office of Hon. John Rand, but the outbreak of the civil war interfered with his plans and he left his studies to go to the front. He enlisted in 1862 and was appointed first
lieutenant, assistant adjutant general, June 29, and adjutant, September 1, 1862, to the Twen- tieth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served under Colonel Adelbert Ames and Lieutenant- Colonel J. L. Chamberlain, plunging into real service at once. He took active part in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville and Get- tysburg. When Colonel Ames was promoted, Lieutenant Brown was made captain and as- sistant adjutant general of volunteers by the president to serve in General Ames' staff. While on the duty he served in several severe battles, including Gettysburg. In his report of his troops at Gettysburg, General Ames thus speaks of Captain Brown: "Captain J. M. Brown, my assistant adjutant general, rendered most valuable services during the three days' fighting; with great coolness and energy he ably seconded my efforts in repell- ing the assault made by the enemy on the evening of the second." Later Captain Brown served in the far south, when General Ames was sent to that section in command of the department, taking part in the siege of Fort Wagner and the movement on Johnson's Island, and subsequently in the movements about Jacksonville. When the thirty-second Maine regiment was organized, the late Dr. Mark E. Wentworth, of Kittery, was com- missioned colonel and he accepted with the condition that Captain Brown should serve as his lieutenant-colonel. Dr. Wentworth's cour- age was without blemish, but his physical con- dition was such that he felt it would be an impossibility for him to be sure of holding active command, and he wanted a good officer for the position to fall to if he was obliged to leave it. Lieutenant-Colonel Brown was emphatically the right man in the right place. The Thirty-second Maine Regiment was mus- tered in April 20, 1864, under the last call of President Lincoln, that of February I, 1864. It was largely made up of men who had seen service in other regiments, so that it was in a measure prepared for the duty that was thrust upon it, that of the tremendous fighting of the latter days of the rebellion when Grant was gradually hammering the life out of the confederacy. Colonel Brown found himself in command of the regiment through the sickness of Colonel Wentworth, and he fought the regiment in the battles of Totopot- omy and Cold Harbor and the preliminary movements at Petersburg. He was severely wounded in the action. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious service in the field. On his re- turn, by care, he recovered his health to such
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an extent that those who knew him only late in life regarded him as a stalwart man of great physical powers, and knew nothing of the seri- ous condition in which he returned from the army. He retained his interest in military matters to the end of his life, and was promi- nent in everything of a local character for the good of the service. He was a firm believer in a strong national guard as one of the main steps of the nation. After his return from the army he joined the militia and served as colonel of the First Regiment for a number of years. He was also appointed brigadier-general, but did not exercise the command because in his opinion there was no brigade to command. He labored long and patiently to bring about reforms in the national guard system of the country which are only now beginning to become apparent. He was of the opinion gained from his foreign tours of observation that the national guard system of the country must be uniform and based on the systems in vogue in Europe which link whole nations together for the common de- fence by a regular system of organizations.
General Brown entered the business firm of which his father and his elder brother, the late Philip Henry Brown, were members, in the sugar business, and later in the real estate and banking business. Subsequent to the death of his father, the firm changed into a corporation called the P. H. & J. M. Brown Company, which still continues in business. He lived in Portland a short time after his return from the war and he served in the common council from ward six in 1865. Later he became impressed with the future value of Falmouth Foreside and bought the large tract near Waite's Landing, where his home was and where he maintained his legal residence for nearly forty years. He was a great lover of agriculture and for years conducted large farming operations on a scale that marked him as a successful gentleman farmer. Gen- eral Brown had traveled extensively in Eng- land and he was imbued somewhat with the value of the English idea of large landed es- tates, and his place at Falmouth was con- ducted much on the same basis as one of the large English establishments. At different times he sustained large losses from fire, hav- ing his barns burned and in other ways suf- fering severely, so that in his later years he confined his operations within a much nar- rower limit. General Brown was one of the commissioners to the Paris exposition by ap- pointment of General Grant. He was for more than twenty-five years a member of the
board of overseers of Bowdoin College, and for twelve years before his death was mem- ber and president of the board of trustees. He was one of the most loyal sons of old Bowdoin and was ever ready to go to her aid in time of need. He served as a member of the legislature from the towns of Falmouth and Cumberland in 1899, and won distinction on the committee on military affairs, being really the father of the present militia law which governs the militia of the state. He also introduced and was sponsor for the law which forbids the placing of any advertise- ment on the national flag, thus preserving it from desecration by enterprising tradesmen who seek to use it to push their business. He was appointed in 1898 a member of the board of managers of the National Homes for Dis- abled Veterans and he had general charge of the Togus Home until his resignation a short time before his death. Early in life he be- came interested in historical matters and was elected a member of the Maine Historical So- ciety more than thirty years ago. He was an earnest student of history, and although his writings were few they are of great value and his services to the society were extremely valuable. He was one of the building com- mittee of the Historical Library, and although in great measure restricted by his illness, he was able to do a great deal of valuable work toward making this building the great success that it is. He was a vice-president of the Maine Historical Society for a number of years, and was also corresponding member of some other twenty historical societies in this and other countries, and rendered valuable service to the cause of history in many lands. He was one of the original members of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and served as commander of the Maine Command- ery. He was also a member of the Sons of American Revolution, of the Society of Col- onial Wars and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, although he did not take a promi- nent part in the work of this order for many years before his death. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Port- land Army and Navy Union. He was the president of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monu- ment Association and delivered the address on the occasion of the completion and surrender of the monument to the city. General Brown received the degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College at commencement in 1863. Aside from his business relations, his con- nection with the Protestant Episcopal church.
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made him better known than any other thing with which he was connected. He became an Episcopalian early in life and was chosen one of the vestry of St. Luke's Cathedral many years ago. He served as a vestryman for a long time, was advanced to the position of warden, and then for a long time served as senior warden of the corporation and treas- urer of the Cathedral Chapter. He was elected delegate to the diocesan convention for the first time in 1887, and after that time missed only four conventions till the close of his life, and these at times when he was either out of the country or incapacitated by illness. He served on the standing committees for years and in the intervals between the death of one bishop and the election and consecra- tion of another, this body acting as the eccle- siastical authority, took a prominent part in the direction of affairs in the diocese. Gen- eral Brown was first elected a lay deputy to the first convention in 1878, and was re-elected every three years from that time. He was re- elected at the convention in May to the gen- eral convention to be held at Richmond, Vir- ginia, in October, and his death caused a vacancy in the body. He was a working member of the general convention for years. He served on many important committees, in- cluding that on the state of the church and on canons and the prayer book. He was what is known as a high church man and was liberal in his support of the tenets of the faith once committed to the saints. Many of the movements that have attained a great prominence in the church were due to him, including the creation of the Episcopate fund and other important features. General Brown was a genial man to meet, and a charming conversationalist, although for all his social prominence he was a diffident man and ex- tremely loath to put himself forward. His range of information was wide, his knowledge deep and accurate, and he was master of vigor- ous English. About a year previous to his death, while traveling in Mexico, General Brown was stricken with what was proved to be a first shock of paralysis, and for a time his condition was considered critical. He re- turned to Portland, however, and the following year went to Falmouth Foreside, where he died of the shock caused by an operation for appendicitis he was compelled to undergo.
John Marshall Brown married, December 18, 1866, Alida Catherine Carroll, of Wash- ington, a direct descendant of Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, one of the signers of the Con- stitution. She was born in Washington, April
5, 1844, and is the daughter of William Thom- as and Sally (Sprigg) Carroll, of Washing- ton. Children of John Marshall and Alida Catherine (Carroll) Brown: I. Sally Car- roll, born October 26, 1867, married, April 5, 1893, Herbert Payson, son of Charles and Ann Maria (Robinson) Payson and grandson of Rev. Edward Payson; children : i. Alida, born January 27, 1895; ii. Anne Carroll, October 14, 1896; iii. John Brown, October 1, 1897; iv. Charles Shipman, October 16, 1898; v. Her- bert Jr., March 23, 1902; vi. Olcott Sprigg, June 30, 1907. 2. Alida Greely, born May 9, 1870, died April 25, 1889, at Montreux, Swit- zerland. 3. Mary Brewster, born February 16, 1876, married, August 5, 1901, George Strong Derby of Boston, son of Dr. Hasket and Sarah (Mason) Derby. 4. Carroll, born March 19, 1881 ; see forward. Daniel Carroll, of Litterlonna, was father of Charles Car- roll, "Barrister," of Inner Temple, London, common ancestor of both the "Carrollton" and "Duddington" Carrolls. The latter were cousins. 5. Violetta Lansdale, born May 14, 1883, married, August 28, 1906, Harold Lee Berry, son of Alfred H. and Frances F. (Crosby) Berry, of Portland.
(VIII) Carroll, only son of General John Marshall and Alida Catherine (Carroll) Brown, was born in Portland, March 19, 1881. After leaving the common schools he attended the Fay School, Southborough, Massachusetts, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and Harvard College for two years. Since that time he has been largely engaged in real estate and mining transactions in New Eng- land and the West. In 1907 the Northeastern Paving & Contracting Company was organ- ized, for the purpose of laying Hassam con- crete paving in northeastern New England, and Mr. Brown was made treasurer of the concern which from the start has done a suc- cessful and constantly increasing business. Mr. Brown is a member of Portland Lodge, No. 188, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Portland Country Club, the Portland Yacht Club and the Harvard Yacht Club, in all of which he is a well-known figure. He attends the Protestant Episcopal church. He married, September 26, 1906, in New York City, Amanda Juneman, who was born in Boulder, Colorado, 1877, daughter of Freder- ick William and Pattie ( Field) Juneman. Mr. and Mrs. Juneman have three children : Irene, married Fay Malone; Amanda, above mentioned ; Field, married Marguerite Klein. Carroll and Amanda (Juneman) Brown have one child, Pattie Field, born August II, 1907.
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There were numerous Brown
BROWN families among the pioneer set- tlers of Massachusetts. There were three distinguished families located in one town in Essex county, and their descend- ants are scattered throughout the common- wealth and other states of the United States, rendering it difficult to trace distinct lines. There were, in the early days of New Hamp- shire, two Jolin Browns in Thornton, belong- ing to entirely distinct ancestral lines. Some representatives of the name now use the final "e" in its spelling, which arose, without doubt, from the peculiar habit of the carly New England settlers of adding that letter to any name. The name has furnished many men of prominence in the business, political, re- ligious and social circles of the various states.
(I) Thomas Brown, born about 1607, came from Malford, England, and settled in New- bury, Massachusetts, in 1635, and died there January 8, 1687, aged eighty years. ' His wife Mary died June 2, 1655. Record is found of three children : 1. Francis, mentioned below. 2. Isaac, married Rebecca Barley, and lived in Newbury. 3. Mary, born 1635.
(II) Francis, son of Thomas and Mary Brown, was born 1632, in England, and re- sided in Newbury, where he was married, No- vember 21, 1653, to Mary Johnson, and both were members of the church in Newbury. The date of the death of his wife Mary is not of record, and he had a second wife of whom little knowledge is obtainable. He died in Newbury in 1691. Six children of the first marriage are recorded : Elizabeth, Mary, Han- nah, Sarah, John and Thomas.
(III) John, elder son of Francis and Mary (Johnson) Brown, was born May 13, 1665, and undoubtedly passed his life in Newbury, where he was married, August 20, 1683, to Ruth Hense, born February 25, 1664, daughter of Abel and Mary ( Sears) Hense, of Newbury.
(IV) John (2), son of John (I) and Ruth (Heuse) Brown, was born about 1685, in Newbury, and made his home in that town, where he was married, January 20, 1713, to Elizabeth Dole, born August 16, 1692, daugh- ter of John and Mary (Gerrish) Dole.
(V) Moses, son of John (2) and Eliza- beth (Dole) Brown, was born October 20, 1723, and removed from Newbury to Plym- outh, New Hampshire, in 1768 or '69, and soon thereafter died. He was married in 1748 (intention published October 15, 1748), to Elizabeth Brown, born November 8, 1728, in Newbury, daughter of Thomas and De- borah Brown. She married (second) Novem-
ber 4, 1771, Deacon Francis Worcester, of Plymouth, born March 30, 1721, in Brad- ford, Massachusetts, son of Rev. Francis and Abigail ( Carleton )
Worcester. Deacon Worcester was one of the foremost citizens of Grafton county, and served as representa- tive, councillor and delegate to the constitu- tional convention. He was a sagacious leader in town, county and state affairs, and died October 19, 1800, in Plymouth. Children of Moses and Elizabeth Brown: 1. Elizabeth, married David Perkins, of Campton, New Hampshire. 2. Mary, married Joseph Pulsi- fer, of the same town. 3. Sarah, married Ezekiel Harding. 4. John, mentioned be- low. 5. Hannah, married Rev. Noah Worces- ter, son of Captain Noah Worcester, of Hol- lis, New Hampshire. He was the able min- ister of Thornton. She died November 16, 1697.
(VI) John (3), only son of Moses and Elizabeth (Brown) Brown, was born Septem- ber 4, 1755, in Plymouth, and resided in Thornton, New Hampshire, where he mar- ried, March 3, 1785, Susanna (or Hannah) Ingalls, probably a daughter of Timothy In- galls, of Chester, Plymouth and Thornton, New Hampshire. Before the close of the eighteenth century he removed to Montville, Waldo county, Maine, where he died, and he married (second) in Belfast, Maine, a widow Nesme, who bore him three sons: George, Edward and Frank. These settled at Eliza- bethport, New Jersey, and were extensively interested in real estate and building in that town. The children of the first marriage were: Charles, Moses, Sarah, Hannah and John Ingalls.
(VII) John Ingalls, son of John (3) and Susanna ( Ingalls) Brown, was born October 27, 1789, in Thornton, and was a child when he removed with his parents to Maine. He enlisted from Maine in the Hampton Infantry for the war of 1812, participating in the en- gagement at Dixmont Hills and elsewhere. He married, at Albion, Kennebec county, Maine, in April, 1811, to Mary Warren. A daughter named Elizabeth and a son John, born of this marriage, died in infancy. Charles, the third child, was born December 10, 1818. 4. Elizabeth, December 19, 1821, married Thom- as Grotton. 5. Noah Worcester, June 18, 1823. 6. William Penn, June 19, 1825. 7. John W., mentioned below. 8. Benjamin, No- vember 27, 1831. 9. Mary Frances, June, 1835. The last named married Abel Smiley, at Bangor, Maine, and lived in Clinton, Iowa. (VIII) John Warren, fifth son of John In-
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galls and Mary ( Warren) Brown, was born May 7, 1828, in Montville, and resided for some time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whence he returned to Maine, and settled in Bangor. He married Frances Hopkins, born in 1830, at Orrington, Penobscot county, Maine. Children: 1. John Ingalls, mentioned below. 2. Charles W. H., a graduate of Maine State College.
(IX) John Ingalls, son of John Warren Brown, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, February 14, 1852. He returned with his parents from Philadelphia, where they had lived a few years, to their former home in Bangor, Maine, where he spent his childhood and attended the public schools. He also at- tended Hampden Academy and the Eastern Conference Seminary at Bucksport, Maine, for several terms, and Kent's Hill Academy. He passed the entrance examinations to Bowdoin College, but did not enter. He became private secretary to (Congressman later) Governor Plaisted, of Maine. Afterward he taught school in Hampden, Maine, for three winter terms, and in the meanwhile read law in the office of Governor Plaisted. In 1881 he was appointed to a responsible position in the census office, and detailed for special work in various sections of the country. He con- tinued the study of law in the National Uni- versity of Washington, D. C., and graduated with the degree of LL.B. in the class of 1884, and was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia the same year. He took the civil service examinations for the patent office in 1885, and was appointed assistant examiner that year and made a principal examiner in July, 1908, in charge of Division No. 41. He is president of the Beneficial Association of the Department of the Interior at Washing- ton. In politics he is a Republican; in relig- ion a Unitarian. He is a member of every branch of Odd Fellowship, and one of the most distinguished men of that order. He is a grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., District of Columbia ; was grand master in 1898. He belongs to Easton Lodge No. 7, of Washington, Fred. D. Stew- art Encampment No. 7, Canton Washington No. I, and Naomi Rebekah No. I. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revo- lution ; of District of Columbia Rathbone Su- perior Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the board of trustees of I. O. O. F. Hall, and a director of the Odd Fellows Home Association. He married, February 14, 1883, Nettie Aldea West, of Bath, Maine, born
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