Samuel Gilman Brown was an American

United States

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 educator. He was born in North Yarmouth

North Yarmouth, Maine

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, Maine

Maine

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, the son of President Francis Brown of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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, graduated at Dartmouth in 1831 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837; was professor

Professor

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 of oratory and belles-lettres in Dartmouth from 1840 to 1863, and held the chair of intellectual philosophy and political economy

Political economy

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 from 1863 to 1867. From 1867 to 1881 he was president of Hamilton College. Among his published works are Biographies of Self-Taught Men (1847) and an excellent and authoritative Life of Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate , American lawyer and orator, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a descendant of an English family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643. His first cousin, physician George Choate, was the father of George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate...

(two volumes, 1862).

Publications

• Memorial of Samuel Gilman Brown (New York, 1885)