IV 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



who in 1639 had emigrated from England to Haverhill, Massachu- 

 setts, and who became one of the early settlers of Salisbury in the 

 same state. 



Jeremiah Brown married Elizabeth Stewardson, sister of Dr. 

 Thomas Stewardson, a well-known medical practitioner of Philadel- 

 phia and a man of broad scientific knowledge, a member of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences and a botanist of considerable stand- 

 ing. If we seek for the origin, in past generations, of the love of 

 science so strongly marked in Dr. Amos Brown, we shall probably 

 find it traceable to the Stewardsons. 



Brown's earliest education was received at a small private 

 school, but in the autumn of 1877 he entered the Germantown Acad- 

 emy, which had that year been placed in charge of a new and de- 

 servedly popular principal. Dr. William Kershaw. 



At school Amos Brown was always at the head of his class. He 

 was one of those fortunate boys who seem able to master their 

 studies with very little effort, and was always especially proficient 

 in mathematics. At the close of his second year he received the 

 phenomenal average of 100 in each of the subjects in which the class 

 was examined. Deciding to take a scientific course in college he did 

 not study Greek and dropped Latin in his last years at school. He 

 was thus able to combine two years' work in one and graduated in 

 June, 1882, entering the University of Pennsylvania in the following 

 autumn. 



He took the Towne Scientific Course, specializing in mining en- 

 gineering after the sophomore year and graduated in June, 1886. 



He remained at the university another year, pursuing his studies 

 in the post-graduate course in mining, and received his degree of 

 E.M. in June, 1887. 



Soon after graduation Brown secured a position as aide on the 

 Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, under the late Charles 

 A. Ashburner, then assistant geologist of the survey, and also 

 assistant on the United States Geological Survey, in charge of coal 

 statistics. 



He worked here in the bituminous region until June 18, 1888, 

 when he returned to Philadelphia and accepted a position under Mr. 

 Benjamin Smith Lyman, who had undertaken a survey of the New 



