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4 unusual facts about George William Brown


Ex parte Merryman

Mayor Brown of Baltimore and Governor Hicks of Maryland asked that no more troops cross Maryland, but Lincoln refused.

George William Brown

Hopkins selected Brown as one of the trustees of the university (but not of the hospital) who would oversee the construction and founding of the institutions now known as the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Severn Teackle Wallis

In September of that year Wallis was arrested with many members of the legislature and other citizens of the city and state (including the police marshal George Kane and mayor George Brown), and imprisoned for more than fourteen months in various forts.

Thomas Holliday Hicks

After the bloodshed in Baltimore, involving Massachusetts troops which were fired on while marching between railroad stations, on April 19, 1861, Baltimore Mayor George William Brown, Marshal George P. Kane, and former Governor Enoch Louis Lowe requested that Hicks burn the railroad bridges leading to Baltimore, in order to prevent further troops from entering the state.



see also

George W. Brown

George William Brown (May 30, 1860 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian politician and the second Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1915.