The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-16
NUMBER 80.
SOME GREAT z
Famous Careers That are Recalled
by the Date of FEBRUARY Fl.

FamOu Careers That are
by the Date of FEBRUARY II.
In the war of 1872 a leading position
belong, to General Jacob Brown, who
was born on May O., 1775, and died on
FEBRUARY a, 1928. His parents were
Quackers. residing in Bucks county,
Pa, and from his 18th TO his 18th year
the future general devoted himself to
school teaching in New Jersey. From
this lie turned his attention to land sur
veying in Ohio. In 1894 he opened a
private school in New York city and
began the study of law. AT this time he
attracted the attention of General Alex
ander Hamilton, who appointed him his
private secretary. In this capacity
Brown went on TO Northern New York
and bought lands on Black river, ear
Sackett's IIarbor, on the site Of the
present village of Brownsville, where
he built the first house within thirty
miles of Lake Ontario. He wa elected
County Judge and became a colonel Of
militia in 1899 AMI a brlgadier general
in 1910, and in 1912 was appointed COM
mander of the Northern frontier, from
Oswego to Lake st. Francis. a distance
Of 200 miles. During tile war General
Brown was twice wounded and his SER
vices were rewarded by the thanks Of
Congress and a gold medal. lie retain
ed his m ,litary command after the con-
cluslon of peace and in 1921 was ap-
pointed general-in-chief of the army Of
the United States. General Brown was
inferred in the Congressional Cemetery
in Washington, where q marble column
bearing a eulogistic inscription was
erected by the government in honor Of
his memory.
Late in 1853, under the command OF
Samuel Calvert, u natural son of Lord
Baltimore, u number of English Roman
Catholic gentleman, with their jnden-
tured servants, sailed i'll the Ark and
Dove for Maryland. The emigrants
entered the Chesapeake and effected a
landing on February "a, 1894. They
were courteously received by the Gov
ernor of Virginia, and the inhabitants
Of an Indian village on the northern
shore of the Potomac, near the mouth
of a tributary stream, sold their land
to Calvert and his followers, the fear of
IN attack from the Susquehannas COM
pelling them to abandon their homes.
The colonists piously named their set
Element st. Mary's.
The famous school master, the friend
of Erasmus and Sir Thomas Moore,
William Lily, the grammarian, was
born at oldham, England, in 1463. He
was educated at Oxford and Travelled in
the East to obtain a knowledge of the
Greek language. On his return to Eng
land he set up a private school and was
the first teacher of Greek in the Eng
lish metropolis. When Dean Colet
founded st. Paul's school in 1912 he APP
pointed Lily the first master. In the
following year he produced his grammar,
which has passed through more editions
than any similar work, and is used to
this day in st. Paul's school. The
English rudiments were written by
| Colet, the preface to the first edition by
Cardinal Woolsey, the Latin syntaX
| chiefly by Erasmus and the remainder
by Lily, the book being thus the joint
.t,tt.,, - fam IF tia nraufact Sphnl-
ars of the age. Lily was master of st.
| Paul's for nearly twelve years and died
| of the plague on February "a, 1923.
George Frederick Handel, although
| a native of Germany, beng born in
| Hale, Saxony. on February "a, 1854,
passed the greater part of his life in
! England. Even in childhood he sac.
rilced his hours of play and his meals
for the study of music, and at ten years
| of age composed a set of sonatas that
were not without value. AS a COM
poser, Handel was great in every style.
In his choral works, he throws at a
unreasonable distance all who preceded
| and followed him. Very soon after his
arrival in London. in ITO, Handel at
tracted the attention Of Queen Anne.
A TIE Deum and Jubilate, composed to
celebrate the, Treaty of Utrecht, gained
him a pension of G2)0. Handel died on
Good Friday, April IS, 1859, and was
buried in Westminster Abbey. The
composer gave a performance of his
own compositions in 1749, by which
$500 were realized for the Founding
Hospital, which institution received
$1,000 from the annual repetition Of
this performance during the ten follow
ing wears,