Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-09
Beriah- Brown Died at the Res
idence of His Son.
WAS FRIEND OF GREELEY
And Was Probably the Oldest News
paper Man in the Rocky
Mountain Region.

Beriah Brown, aged Sc. a native of
New York, died last night at 1890 o'clock
at the residence of his son A. n. Brown
at 61O Maple street. Death was caus-
ed by a general breaking down of this
system of the deceased who was at the
time of his death the Oldest printer west
of the Rocky mountains. The deceas-
ed leaves -four sons. Edward H. Brown,
deputy city comptroller of Seattle; Ber-
iah Brown, news editor of the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer: A. N. Brown, city
editor of the Anaconda Standard, and
James H. Brown, city editor of the
Spokesman-Review of Spokane. The
wife died at Seattle IN 1898.
His biography written by his son A.
N. Brown OF this city is in part as fol-
lows: His entrance into the field of
newspaper work was made with Horace
Greeley, the two spending several years
together in New York city as printers
apprentices. He subsequently moved to
Michigan, then q territory, in whose orr
ganiZatiOn as a state he assisted figuring
as a member of its constitutional con-
vention. Later he took up MS residence
in Wisconsin, Where also he was chosen
as a member Of its constitutional con-
vention.
For a brief time he worked in the lead
mines of Wisconsin, then gave that up
n actively entered the newspaper bust.
ness. At Madison, Wis, he published a
ape for a numbe of years aud success
fully filled the office Of state printer. He
amassed considerable wealth, but lost it
in the panic of 1851.
In 1863 he went to California in the in.
terests of the Mcclellan wing Of the ma
tional democracy, am started a paper in
San Francisco and there published it as
the San Francisco Democratic Press. His
journalistic labors were exceedingly sue
ceSsful until the year 1865, Immediately
after the assassination of President Linz
coin. A fanatical element became in
nOculated with the belief the proprietor
Of the Democratic Press secretly, if not
openly, s~ympathized with the horrible
deed which had just thrown the Ameri-
a people into the deepest mourning.
BY way of expressing their misled fury
they sacked and destroyed the building
occupied by the Democratic Press. They
also laid in ashes the offices occupied by
the Catholic Monitor and other San
Francisco papers of that day.
They hunted the city for Mr.. Brown
that they might hang him. But, fortu-
nately for his life, he at the time was
across the bay at San Leandro. News
coming to him of how matters stood
in San Francisco ne started to return to
that city with all haste, but was inter-
cepted by officers sent by the proves.
marshal Of San Francisco. who for sew
eral weeks prevented his return. The
government, considering that his pres
ence in San Francisco would serve only
to further incite the public feeling, plac-
ed him on board an old government YES
Sci running between the Golden Gate
and Puget ound. He made the trip to
Victoria and on returning to San Fran
cisco was ordered to leave the country
A second til1e the government took him
in charge. This time his destination
and his abiding place for Is months was
Gl,aymas, Mexico. He next went tc
Santa Rosa, Cal, and there started q
daily paper. In the meantime Captain
Moss had continued the publication Of