Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-22
WORLDS RICHEST BOY
 HAS 18TH BIRTHDAY
John Nicholas Brown Already
 Has an Immense Fortune
 of More Than $25,OOO,OO0

PROVIDENCE. K. l.. Feb. 2i-John Nicholas Brown, the wealthiest boy in the world" entered upon his lf. teenth year today. As an infant he was known as the "Ten-Million-Dollar Baby Today his fortune is variously estimated at from s25.OOO,OOO to $50. OOO,00o. Seven years hence, when he attains his legal majority, he will come into possession Of more millions that are now held in trust and will then be numbered among the richest men in America.
 Young Brown has spent practically the whole of his fourteen years in Newport, with the exception of oc- casional visits to Europe. His home is Harbour Court, on the Halldon Hill, large. oldfashioned place that makes but a modest showing in com. parisan with the great mansions by which it is surrounded on all sides | Here the richest boy has grown up under the watchful eye of his mother Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, whose life's bugaboo has been the fear that her son might be kidnapped and held for ransom. The boy has never been allowed to go about alone As an infant he was accompanied every where by a nurse and private dectc. | tive. Since he has grown older he has been allowed a little more freedom. but even now he is seldom seen with. out a companion" whose broad shoulders and muscular frame afford outward evidence that the owner is well qualified to teach young charge the manly art of self defense.
 | John Nicholas Brown first came into the limelight as a Baby Croesus when his father, of the same name, died in 1900, only a few months after the birth of his son. to whom he left his estate of S5.OO0.OO0. About week after the death of his father the in. fant inherited also the estate of his uncle. Harold Brown valued at all equal amount. To these millions other inheritances were added from time tC time. When the boys grandmother was Sophia Augusta Brown. died in 1909. she left estates valued at aboui S30.000,000. a large share of whicl went to swell the fortune of young Jchn Nicholas.
 The boys mother was formerl! Mrs. Natalie Dresser. a sister of Mrs George W. Vanderbilt The Browns descend from one of the oldest Rhod, Island families. tracing tack ts th, Rev. Chad Brown, who came to Amer ica in iG3S, shortly after Roger vii
 Hams, For ever g dentury uae Browns were connected with the ship ping firm of Brown and Ives. in whcl they built up a large cotton ard text He industry and carried on extensive trade with the East Indies.
 One Of the most famous membert Of the family was Nicholas Brown the great grandfather of young Johl Nicholas Brown. In his honor, il 1894, Rhode Island College changes it's name to Brown University. Mich olas Brown was officially connecte' with the university for over fit
 years, and gave Tn all no less thal
 S10O,O0O to the institution. His be nevolence was not confined to tn university, however. for he devote large sums to the building of churcf . es and to charitable purposes and b' f queath S5O,0OO for an insane asyiur P in Providence.
 l His son, John Carter Brown, su' ceeded to his fathers business. II |. was graduated from Brown Unlve
 sity in 1916, and in the course of hi Q life gave in money value to the il
 stitution even more than his fathe ! had done. He died in middle lift leaving a widow and two sons, Joh
 Nicholas Brown and Harold Browl
 the father and uncle, respectively,
 young John Nicholas Brown.