John Nicholas Brown I

John Nicholas Brown I (1861–1900) was a book collector who donated his father's collection to Brown University.[1]

Biography

He was born in 1861 to John Carter Brown II. He had a son, John Nicholas Brown II, who was born in 1900.

He died in 1900, the same year that his son was born and the same year as his brother Harold Brown (Rhode Island).[2][3]

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References

  1. ^ "History of the John Carter Brown library". http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/fr_history.html. Retrieved 2011-04-21. "Although the Brown family had been acquiring books since early in the eighteenth century, the present collection was not fully launched until the mid-nineteenth century when John Carter Brown (1797–1874) began avid pursuit of Americana, an area of interest he termed “the Great Subject.” His son, John Nicholas Brown (1861–1900), actively continued this tradition and before his untimely death had conceived the idea of giving the Library to the world of historical research as a memorial to his father." 
  2. ^ "John Nicholas Brown II". Brown University. http://proteus.brown.edu/egypt1923/253. Retrieved 2011-04-22. "John Nicholas Brown II (1900-1979) was born February 21, 1900. Two months later, his father John Nicholas Brown I died of typhoid fever, followed shortly by the unexpected death of his uncle Harold Brown. Thus, as an infant JNB became heir of his family's fortune and was dubbed by the public the "richest baby in America." John Nicholas Brown traveled the world in his youth and would continue to do so throughout his life. ..." 
  3. ^ Romy Wyllie. Bertram Goodhue: his life and residential architecture. ISBN 0393732193. http://books.google.com/books?id=gUMsAAAAYAAJ&q=%22John+Nicholas+Brown+I%22&dq=%22John+Nicholas+Brown+I%22&hl=en&ei=uQSxTeKjH4nb0QHpxI1h&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA. "When John Nicholas Brown I and his brother both died in 1900, they left their fortune to John's three-month- old son, who became the richest baby in the world."