Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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This sec-ond Stewart Brown married Mary Ann Abbott, a native of Lon-don, England, and the subject of this sketch was their thirteenthchild. The family had removed from Baltimore to New York, andhere George Alexander Brown was born, on February 10, 1853.His early education was secured under the careful direction ofprivate tutors and in private schools in this city, and then, inthe fall of 1872, he entered the School of Mines of Columbia Col-lege as a member of the class of 1876. His career as a studentwas creditable, but he left college in 1875, and entered the bank-ing-house of Brown Brothers as a clerk. After mastering thedetails of the business he was transferred to the house of Brown,Shipley & Co., London, England, where he remained for sevenyears. Being a good American, and preferring life in New York tothat of London, he left the last-named firm and returned to theUnited States. He then became a member of the New YorkStock Exchange. That was in March, 1882. He then formed 30
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GEORGE ALEXANDER BROWN 31 with his two brothers a copartnership under the title of StewartBrowns Sons, which had a highly profitable and honorablecareer of twelve years. In 1894 the firm was dissolved bymutual consent, and Mr. Brown continued in the same businessalone, in which he has been successful beyond the ordinary mea-sure of the Street. Mr. Brown has never held political office of any kind. He hasalways been a Democrat, and never voted for a RepublicanPresident until 1896, when he voted for McKinley. In 1892 hewas an active member of the New York Stock Exchange Cleve-land and Stevenson Club, and was one of its delegates to theexecutive committee of the United Business Mens ClevelandClubs. In that campaign he was one of the chief organizers ofthe Democratic meeting on the steps of the United States Sub-Treasury in Wall Street, which Mr. Cleveland afterward declaredto have been, in his opinion, one of the strongest factors in hiscampaign. Mr. Brown is a life member of the Calumet

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