Samuel Gilman Brown (1813–1885) was an American educator. He was born in

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, the son of Francis Brown, president of

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, graduated at Dartmouth in 1831 and at

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in 1837. He was principal of

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for girls, 1835–1838. He was professor of oratory and belles-lettres in Dartmouth from 1840 to 1863, and held the

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of intellectual philosophy and

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from 1863 to 1867. From 1867 to 1881 he was president of

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. Among his published works are ''Biographies of Self-Taught Men'' (1847) and an excellent and authoritative ''Life of

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'' (two volumes, 1862). He was the father of the theologian Francis Brown.

Publications

*''Memorial of Samuel Gilman Brown'' (New York, 1885)

References

* American educators People from North Yarmouth, Maine 1813 births 1885 deaths Presidents of Hamilton College (New York) {{US-edu-bio-stub