- HOPE BROWN, [Fitchburg], son of
Elijah and Rhoda (WHEELER) BROWN, was born in
- Concord, Feb. 16, 1798; fitted
for college at Amherst Academy. Princeton T.S., '28-'30; ordained,
June 29, 1830, at Shirley, and p., '30—'45; p., Napierville,
Ill., '45-'56; General Agent of the Rockford Female Seminary,
'56-'70; w.c., Rockford, Ill. ; Beloit, Wis. While in Napierville,
held for seven years the position of County School Commissioner.
Married Mary P., dau. of Benjamin FULLER, of Fitchburg, April
12, 1831. Five children. P.O. address, Beloit, Wis. [Alumnus
of Amherst College, 1828]
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- [Taken from "Biographical Record of the Alumni of
Amherst College During Its First Half Century, 1821-1871"
edited by W. L. Montague; (c)1883 J. E. Williams, Amherst, MA,
p. 43]
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