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Alexander Blaine Brown

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Church
  
Presbyterian

Died
  
July 29, 1853

Ordained
  
October 1831

Parents
  
Matthew Brown

Name
  
Alexander Brown

Education
  
Allegheny College

Role
  
Matthew Brown's son


Alexander Blaine Brown

Born
  
August 1, 1808
Washington, Pennsylvania

Offices held
  
7thpresident of Jefferson College (1847–1856)

Alexander Blaine Brown was elected the seventh president of Jefferson College on October 14, 1847. The son of Matthew Brown, Jefferson College's fifth president, Brown was professor of belles lettres and adjunct professor of languages from 1841 to 1847. Under his presidency the college continued to prosper and in 1852 Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was founded at Jefferson College. Brown resigned in August 1856 due to ill health.

Selected works

  • Brown, Alexander Blaine; John MacLean; Matthew Boyd Hope (1858). Letters on the True Relations of Church and State to Schools and Colleges. J. T. Robinson. 

    • References

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