History of Carroll County Maryland United States of America

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Frank Brown, governor of Maryland, was born at "Brown's Inheritance," Carroll county, Md.; son of Stephan Thomas Cockey Brown. His first American ancestor, Abel Brown, came from Dumfries, Scotland, and settled near Annapolis, Md. Several of his sons served in the revolutionary war and some of his grandsons in the, war of 1812-'14. Frank Brown was educated at Springfield academy, and at private academies in Baltimore city. In 1870 he was appointed to a clerkship in one of the state tobacco warehouses, a position which he held for the ensuing six years. In 1875 he was elected a member of the house of delegates from Carroll county, and was re-elected in 1877. He inherited large estates from his father and his uncle, George Patterson, to the care of which he devoted much of his time. He was president of the Maryland state agricultural and mechanical association from 1880 to 1892. He took a prominent part in the presidential campaign of 1884, and in 1886 was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Baltimore city; during his term in this office he was instrumental in initiating various postal reforms. In the fall of 1887 he was a candidate for gubernatorial honors, and failed of nomination. In 1891 he was the unanimous nominee of the Democratic convention, and was elected governor by a majority of thirty thousand votes. In addition to his duties as the chief executive of the state, he was ex-officio president of the board of trustees of the Maryland agricul-rural college; president of the board of trustees of the house of correction; of the board of trustees of St. John's college, Annapolis, Md.; president of the state board of education, and of the board of public works, 1892-96.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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