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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BROOKS BROWNE.) 



Kansas City, Mo., July 12, 1902. In early youth 

 she played in support of Edwin Forrest and Wil- 

 liam Macready, and in later years she acted with 

 Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Lawrence Bar- 

 rett, and other stars. When Joseph Jefferson 

 first produced his famous play, Rip Van Winkle, 

 Miss Bridges was the original Gretchen. She 

 made her last appearance in 1887, in Fogg's 

 Ferry. She was first married, while very young, 

 to Tunis J. Johnson, and after his death she be- 

 came the wife of Charles H. Erwin. She pos- 

 sessed a pleasing personality and was a great 

 favorite with the public for many years. 



Brooks, Elbrldge Streeter, author, born in 

 Lowell, Mass., April 14, 1846; died in Somerville, 

 Mass., Jan. 7, 1902. He was the son of a Uni- 

 versalist clergyman, was educated in what is 

 now the College of the City of New York, and 

 in early manhood was employed in the publishing 

 house of D. Appleton and Company. For about 

 fifteen years he was connected with New York 

 book firms and was a member of the editorial 

 staff of the Brooklyn Daily Times. From 1884 

 to 1887 he was an assistant editor of the St. 

 Nicholas Magazine, and then, removing to Bos- 

 ton, he became connected with the publishing 

 firm of D. Lothrop & Co. He edited the Wide 

 Awake Magazine a few years, and on the reor- 

 ganization of the Lothrop firm in 1895 became 

 its literary adviser, and so continued until his 

 death. With few exceptions, his writings are 

 for young persons and are intended to popularize 

 American history with juvenile readers and instil 

 a sense of patriotism into the rising generation. 

 In this aim he was eminently successful, and his 

 books have attained a wide circulation. He was 

 a member of the Authors Club of New York, 

 and one of the founders of the later Boston Au- 

 thors Club. He was a man of great kindliness 

 of disposition, and in spite of an overwhelming 

 press of duties was always ready to extend a 

 helping hand to younger writers who sought his 

 advice or aid. Beside editing several works, such 

 as Great Cities of the World (1890) and The 

 Boy Life of Napoleon (1895), he was the author 

 of The Life Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks 

 (his father) (1880); In No-Man's Land, a work 

 similar to Alice in Wonderland (1885); Historic 

 Boys (1885); In Leisler's Times (1886); Chival- 

 ric Days (1886); Storied Holidays (1887); His- 

 toric Girls (1887); The Story of the American 

 Indian (1887) ; The Story of New York (1888) ; The 

 Story of the American Sailor (1888); The Story 

 of the American Soldier (1889); A Son of Issa- 

 char, a novel (1890); The Story of the United 

 States (1891); The True Story of Christopher 

 Columbus (1892); Heroic Happenings (1893); 

 The Century Book for Young Americans (1894); 

 The True Story of George Washington (1895); 

 A Boy of the First Empire (1895); Great Men's 

 Sons (1895); The Story of Miriam of Magdala 

 (1895); Under the Tamaracks (1896); The True 

 Story of Abraham Lincoln (1896); The Century 

 Book of Famous Americans (1896); The Long 

 W r alls (with J. Alden) (1896); The True Story 

 of Ulysses S. Grant (1897); The Century Book 

 of the American Revolution (1897); A Son of 

 the Revolution (1898); The True Story of Ben- 

 jamin Franklin (1898) ; The Master of the Strong 

 Hearts (1898); Stories of the Old Bay State 

 (1899) ; The Story of our War with Spain (1899) ; 

 Historic Americans (1899); The True Story of 

 Lafayette (1899); On Woodcove Island (1899); 

 In Blue and White (1899); The Story of the 

 Nineteenth Century (1900); A Godson of La- 

 fayette (1900); With Lawton and Roberts 

 (1900) ; The Century Book of the American Col- 



onies (1900); In Defense of the Flag (1900); 

 Animals in Action ( 1901 ) ; and Under the Allied 

 Flags (1901). 



Brown, Egbert Benson, military officer, born 

 in Brownsville, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1816; died in West 

 Plains, Mo., Feb. 11, 1902. He received but lit- 

 tle education, and at the age of thirteen went 

 to work. Later he removed to Toledo, Ohio, of 

 which city he became mayor. At the close of 

 his term he engaged in railroad enterprises, but 

 he abandoned them when the civil war began 

 and raised a regiment of infantry. He was se- 

 verely wounded at the battle of Springfield; was 

 promoted brigadier-general of volunteers; and 

 served till the close of the war. He was United 

 States pension agent in St. Louis in 1866-'68, 

 and afterward lived in retirement. 



Brown, John Appleton, artist, born in New- 

 buryport, Mass., July 24, 1844; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 18, 1902. He studied art in Boston 

 under B. C. Porter, and later in Paris under 

 E\nile Lambinet, and on his return to the United 

 States opened a studio in Boston, where he had 

 a yearly exhibition of his works. He gained a 

 high reputation as a landscape-painter. His 

 works include A View at Dives Calvados, France ; 

 Summer; On the Merrimac at Newburyport; Au- 

 tumn; A Storm at ithe Isles of Shoals; Glen Mill 

 Brook; Springtime; and A May Day. 



Brown, Susan Dod, philanthropist, born in 

 Mendham, N. J., Feb. 1, 1812; died in New York 

 city, Oct. 10, 1902. For many years she sup- 

 ported several missionaries in foreign fields and 

 in home work. She gave to Princeton Univer- 

 sity the Albert Dod Hall and the David Brown 

 Hall (cost together, upward of $200,000), and to 

 Lincoln University, Illinois, the Mary Dod 

 Chapel. She also contributed liberally to the 

 support of religious, educational, and benevolent 

 institutions. 



Brown, William Bryant, clergyman, born in 

 Thompson, Conn., June 29, 1816; died in East 

 Orange, N. J., Aug. 3, 1902. He was educated at 

 Oberlin College, and became pastor of a Congre- 

 gational church in Hartford, Ohio, and later in 

 Henrietta, N. Y. In 1854 he was called to the 

 First Congregational Church, Newark, N. J., and 

 remained at this post nearly twenty-five years, 

 during which period he aided in forming 30 new 

 churches. He was the author of The Problem 

 of Final Destiny, An Intertwined Congregational 

 and Presbyterian History in New Jersey and the 

 Middle Provinces, and The Gospel of the King- 

 dom and the Gospel of the Church, his last lit- 

 erary work, which was published a few months 

 before his death. Dr. Brown was also an artist. 

 He painted a large canvas showing his concep- 

 tion of a bit of landscape in a remote geological 

 period and exhibiting various forms of probable 

 or extinct animal and vegetable life. He was 

 also an accomplished portrait-painter, and was 

 in the habit of painting the portraits of the 

 children of his congregation who died, for pres- 

 entation to their parents. He was a lifelong and 

 enthusiastic student of geology and mineralogy, 

 and had made a large and valuable collection of 

 specimens. 



Browne, Junius Henri, author, born in Sene- 

 ca Falls, N. Y.; died in New York city, April 2, 

 1902. He was educated at St. Xavier College, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio; and later removed to New York 

 city, where he resided till his death. He was a 

 journalist, war correspondent, and author. 

 Among his best known works are Four Years in 

 Secessia (1865) ; The Great Metropolis: A Mirror 

 of New York (1869); and Sights and Sensations 

 in Europe (1872). 



