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Amos P. Brown, sometime Professor of Mineralogy and Geology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania. Living not far from one 

 another we became close friends, and through him I met his 

 brother Stewardson, a few years his junior. The family of 

 seven sons and two daughters resided with their parents at 

 "Restalrig," one of the Logan properties near Wayne Junc- 

 tion, adjoining on the south the famous homestead "Stenton," 

 rich in historic associations. It lay on the extreme eastern 

 edge of Germantown and beyond it stretched miles of open 

 country, with delightful bits of woodland here and there, and 

 the Wingohocking Creek, then a clear open stream, flowing not 

 far away. The surroundings were ideal for the development of 

 a love for natural history; and the atmosphere of the home 

 equally so. There was a general interest in out-door life in the 

 family, and a love of hunting and fishing on the part of the 

 father and elder brothers. A gun closet in the hall was ever 

 ready to furnish the means of securing any rare bird that visited 

 the neighborhood, while many mounted specimens graced the 

 bookcases in the parlor. And life there was not bound about 

 by narrow restrictions such as some parents feel it necessary to 

 impose. There wer^ flower beds, shrubbery, orchards and 

 a large old-fashioned vegetable garden with a grape wall, and 

 extensive hotbeds. In this enclosure each of the boys, so long 

 as they desired, had a small patch of his own where flowers and 

 early vegetables were raised. 



In this environment Stewardson Brown was born April 29, 

 1867, and here he resided until the family moved to East Penn 

 St., Germantown, in 1900. 



He naturally developed an interest in nature, and a love 

 of out-door sports, — cricket, baseball, etc., for which ample 

 opportunity was offered without leaving his home grounds. 

 Especially however, was he attached to the garden and from 

 constant association with the gardeners he attained at an early 

 age a knowledge of cultivated and wild plants, trees and shrubs 

 which formed the foundation of his later career. 



Stewardson was the fifth son of Amos P. and Frances Brown 

 and was descended from Henry Brown who emigrated from 

 England to Haverhill, Mass., in 1639. One of his grand- 



