Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-11-24
The following Biographical sketch of

sEs BRowN, which we extract from the
Providence journal, will he read with
much interest by all who we've acqunin
ed with that venerable man.
NOTICES OF THE LIFE AND CHAR.
! ACTER OF TIE LATE MOSES
BROWN.
J "Within the past year, Death has been
busy IN the ranks Of our aged and intiu-
entail citizens. One after another has
passed into the world Of spirits, and the
places which once knew them, shall
know them no more. The individuals
TO whom ] alIude, were useful and hon
orable men; Tor they mixed themselves
largely with the interests Of society, and
they never failed, even in these Inter
days Of social Perversi'y, to uphold the
grand conservative principles of moral
right. Leaving 10 the pen of familiar
friendship the grateful task Of commcmo-
rating the virtues Of that excellent per-
son, who 80 long presided over our Uni
versity, and who so recently was the Joy
of his own freside, have collected a
few memorials of the late Moses BRowN,
which cannot be without interest, espec-
tally to those who were no stranger to
that venerable man.
de was the youngest son Of James
and Hope Brown, and was horn in Provi-
dence, September %, 1888. He long
survived his three elder brothers, Nicho-
las, Joseph and John-the first having
died in 1871, the second in 1894, and
the third in 1903. [See Note A. AT
the early age Of thirteen, he left school,
and, his father being deceased, he pass
ed his early years in the family OF his
paternal uncle Obadiah. Bl at that time
nm eminent merchant Of Providence, who,
from the first, extended TO him the care
and the affection Of father. In the
year 1884, he married Anna Brown, the
daughter of his uncle, and he subsequent
ly inherited, by win, a portion Of his
large estate. Thus was strengthened,
by an intimate allnnce, in manhood, the
friendship which had frightened his ear
ly years. This marriage was blessed by
the birth Of three chil,lren,a son and two
daughters. One Of the atter died in in
fancy-the other, Sarah Almy, a truly
estimabIe woman, and wife of the late
William Almy, 1894. His only son, the
late Obadiah Brown of honorable ,n-'no-
ry, died in the vigor of manhood, in the
year 1922; and his son-in. law, William
AImy, upon whose society and wise
counsels he greatly relied, nt the COM
mencement Of the present year. Thus
was he Patriarch, without children. CT
Those who, in order Of nature, should
have gone after him, went before him;
and he was left to feel all that dreariness,
which belongs to what Burke, in his e!o-
quent grief for the loss Of his only son,
calls "the solitude of an inverted exis-
tence." In the course Of his long jour
ney, MIR. 3. was three times married,
but he was companionless many years
before he reached its end. These sue
ccssive trials were sustained with that
serene fortitude which only Christian
faith can impart. To his most familiar
friends it is known, that he regarded
these melancholy bereavements, with no
stoical apathy. In some Of those private
records of devout gratitude which, till
within few years Of his death, he was
in the habit OF making, upon the recur-
renee of his birthday, there may be
found frequent and touching references
10 these repeated visitations Of dome site
sorrow. In COMMUNICATING the good
ness Of his Heavenly Father, when he
had reached his 87,h year, Mr.. Brown
alludes to his "many trials" especially
10 the death of his son, Of whom, in Ian
guagc Of simple pahos, he thus speaks:
AMY beloved son, in my old nge, Oh
whom | was looking to lean" These
chasii ise ments, TO use his own expressive
and modest phrase, "tended to my hu-
They took away from the
aged pilgrim his staff and the compan-
ions OF his journey, but they taught him
to lean, with more confidence, upon an
arm, and to look forward, with
a more sustaining hope, to a communion
with the society Of Heaven.
In the year 1863, Mr.. Brown cngag-
ed in commercial pursuits, in partnership
with his three brothers. He continued
in active business for about ten years,
when he withdrew from the hustle of
trade to that retirement to which his fee
BILE health invited-and which was so
much more congenial to his early formed
taste for intellectual pursuits. From his
fnvorite seclusion he never emerged ,ex-
cept for an interval Of about two years
which he devoted to the establishment of
his son and son-in-law in the business Of
the cotton manufacture. He early fore
saw the advantages which domestic
pronni. ed 10 ihi. section OF
our country; ond, in the year 1889, he
was instrumental in inducing the late
Caa,,al Slater Esn 10 cmnlnx his sk Ill