BIOGRAPHY OF DR. WILLIAM W. BROWN of Manchester NH
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Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, 
including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; 
a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, 
newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police 
and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, 
cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of 
the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the 
councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the 
cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of 
the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; 
and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. 
Clark; 1875
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DR. WILLIAM W. BROWN
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William Whittier Brown was born in Vershire, VT August 28, 1805, the son
of Ebenezer and Mary (Whittier) Brown. He was the third of nine 
children, of whom one brother--Jonathan, of Eden VT,--and two sisters,--
one the widow of the late Alvah Avery of Corinth VT, and the other the
widow of the late Rev. Nathaniel L. Chase of this city [Manchester NH]
survive.  He acquired his education at the academies in Bradford and
Randolph VT, and in Hudson NY, and began in 1828 the study of medicine
with Dr. John Poole at Bradford. He attended lectures at Hanover, NH
and graduated from the New Hampshire Medical Institute of that place in
1830.  He at once began practice at Poplin, now Fremont, this state, and 
remained there till 1835, when he removed to Chester where he acquired
an extensive business during his ten years' practice.  At one time he
practiced in Boscawen NH.
  In 1846 he removed to this city, where he kept his residence until his
death.  He spent one year, including parts of 1849 and 1850, in
California, where he acquired some property. He was appointed,
October 19, 1861, surgeon of the Seventh New Hampshire regiment, and
servied until the autumn of 1864, when want of health compelled his
resignation.  He was appointed pension-surgeon but resigned on account
of the small fees allowed. He died in this city January 6, 1874, of
pneumonia.  He was five times married and had seven children but was
only survived by his last wife.
  Dr. Brown received form Dartmouth College the honorary degree of
Master of Arts, was elected a fellow of the New Hampshire Medical
Society in 1836 and was its president in 1869, while at the time of his
death there were but two members two members who had been longer
connected with the society.  He was a director of the Merrimack River
Bank from 1869 until it was succeeede din 1865 by the first National
Bank, and was a director of the latter form that time and a trustee of
the Merrimack River Savings Bank from 1873 until his decease.  He was a
member of the Franklin Street Congregational church, was frequently
chosen one of the officers of the society connected with it and was
elected its president in 1855, 1867 and 1868.
  Dr. Brown was a man of clear and practical mind and combined a strong
love for the profession he followed with an intense application to it.
In fact, he was never idle, was never seen at places where time could
be lost, but was always to be found at his home or office, attending
his patients or at some religious meeting or literary entertainment. He
was remarkably fond of reading, and, besides making himself familiar
with all that was fresh in the science of medicine, he kept pace with
all the news of the day, and books and papers were his constant 
companions.  Excelled by few, if any, practitioners in the state, he
had a very large business and always commanded the respect of the
public whereever he was.

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