The Portland daily press., 1881-01-12
FUNERAL OF JOHN B. BROWN.
Resolutions of Respect to His Memory.

The funeral of the late j. B. Brown will
take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from
High street church. There will be services a
the church consisting of prayer and reading o
scriptures by Rev. W. FL. Fenn and music by
the choir. The exercises will be very shor
and there will be no address. Previous to the
exercises at the church services will be held Al
the house at one o'clock, for members of the
family only. Nearly all the prominent mel
of the city will be present at the funeral. The
Merchants Exchange room will be closed dur
ing the services, and the members will assem-
BILE there at 1.3O p. m. to attend the funeral
The members of the City Government will
meet at City Building at the same hour. The
places of business of members of the Board Of
Trade will be closed during the funeral.
The tenants of Mr.. Brown in Falmouth Ho-
tel block will close their stores between the
hours of 2 and 3 this afternoon, in respect to
his memory.
The directors of the First National Bank
yesterday passed the following resolutions:
The directors of the First National Bank de-
sire to place on their records the following
minute:
We have been apprised of the death of our
associate, the Hon. John B. Brown, which re-
suited from fall near his residence on Satur-
day evening last.
For more than twenty years Mr.. Brown has
been very intimately connected with this bank
and with its predecessor, the International
Bank.
He was an original corporator in both insti-
buttons and during this long period his almost
daily counsel has been of marked benefit. His
associates will miss his genial presence, his
frank and manly criticism and advice and his
high commercial integrity, and with the citi-
zens of Portland, and indeed of our state, they
will look in vain for another who can step in
to the vacant place and fill the same.
We desire to extend to the family of our
late associate our heartfelt sympathy, realizing
that we cannot invade even with our consola-
ton the grief and loss that must remain sacred
and private.
AS a token of respect to his memory we will
attend in a body the funeral services of our
friend.
At q meeting of the managers of the Port
land Savings Bank held Monday it was Or
dered that the following be entered on the
records:
The managers are shocked and saddened by
the news this morning of the sudden death of
our President and friend, Hon. John B.
Brown.
He has been President of this institution for
more than sixteen years, and we may be es-
pecially allowed, in common with other citi-
zens to mourn the loss of man whose public
spirit, wise counsels, eminent financial abb ity
and faithfulnessS to trusts committed to him
have contributed in great measure to make
this bank what tits
For more than half a century Mr.. Brown
has filled place in this immediate communi-
ty larger than any other man. There is no
public enterprise for the last forty years in
which his power has not been felt Railroads,
banks, manufactures, commerce, charities and
institutions of learning alike have been foster
ed by his material aid and far-reaching wis
dom. The public works with which he has
been identified are his monuments and obitu-
airy.
We tender to the family of our deceased
friend our heartfelt sympathy in their be-
reavement
The Boston Advertiser of yesterday says:
The death of the Hon. Johnl B. Brown of
Portland is public loss to the city of his resi-
dence, to the state of Maine and to New Eng
land. He was one of the most public spirited
OF citizens. Portland owes more than she has
realized to his progressive and liberal enter
prise, and yet the people of the city have not
lacked appreciation. No man in the state
will be more missed than he.
The Boston Post pays tribute, probably
from the pen of Mr.. George f. Emery, when
it says:
The death of this gentleman will be felt in
Portland as special calamity, and be widely
deplored in business circles far beyond the
limits of Maine. In that city his name as a
merchant and eminent business man has for
forty years been as familiar as household
words By general consent, of those distin-
guished for energy, enterprise and success, he
has been assigned to the head. He was emphati
cally the architect of hissown fortune, and won
his way upward to proud summit by dint of
industry which knew no relaxation, and per-
severance which never quailed before obsta-
cles. The fruits of his remarkable skill and
city with whose prosperity his name is closely
allied, and in railway and other enterprises,
both in New England and elsewhere his
force and energy have been felt as powerful
and contrOllin1 factors