Brown, Beriah, 1815-1900

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Printing
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American newspapers
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found: Smith, W. Discourse delivered before the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at its first annual meeting, 1850:t.p. (Beriah Brown, printer)

found: Wisconsin magazine of history, v. 3, 1920:p. 468, etc. (Beriah Brown; printer and newspaper editor/publisher; associated with the Erie observer, Batavia, N.Y.; the Batavia advocate; the Tecumseh Democrat, Mich., 1835-9; the Niles intelligencer, Mich., 1839-41; Mineral Point Democrat, Wis., 1845-6; the Madison Democrat, Wis., 1846-52; the Daily Argus and Democrat, Madison, Wis., 1852-5; People's press, Milwaukee, 1860-62; the Stockton Republican, Calif., 1862-3; Democratic press, San Francisco, 1863-5; the Santa Rosa Democrat, Calif, 1865; Oregon herald, Portland, 1866-9; the Democratic Press, Salem, Ore., 1869-70; the Standard, Olympia, Wash., 1870-71; the Puget Sound dispatch, Seattle, 1871-8; Intelligencer, Seattle, 1878; mayor of Seattle, 1879-80; b. 2/21/1815; d. 2/8/1900)

found: Brown (Family : Brown, Beriah, 1815-1900) Brown family papers, 1860-1945(Beriah Brown (1815-1900) newspaper publisher and politician who served as Mayor of Seattle)

found: Memorial record of the fathers of Wisconsin, 1880, viewed online July 28, 2021:page 286 (Beriah Brown was born at Canandaigua, New York, February 21, 1815)

found: Wikipedia, July 28, 2021(Beriah Brown (February 23, 1815-February 8, 1900) born Canandaigua, New York; newspaper publisher by trade, Brown was a Democrat who served as Clerk and Recorder of Iowa County, Wisconsin, and was a member of the first Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin--Madison. In 1858, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He moved to California in 1862; known for his pro-Confederacy views as the editor of the Democratic Press in San Francisco. Brown moved to the Pacific Northwest, working at newspapers in Portland and Salem, Oregon. He moved to Washington Territory in 1871. Board of Regents of the University of Washington, Mayor of Seattle from 1878 to 1879; died in Anaconda, Montana) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriah_Brown

found: City of Seattle website, July 28, 2021:city archives > Seattle facts > city-officials > mayors (Beriah Brown, term began 7/29/1878, People's Ticket; [ended] 8/3/1879) - https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/seattle-facts/city-officials/mayors/mayors-1869-1890