Family and education Henry Billings Brown



henry billings brown @ age 19 or 20, yale college graduation picture, 1856


brown born in south lee, massachusetts, , grew in massachusetts , connecticut. new england merchant family. brown entered yale college @ 16, member of alpha delta phi fraternity. earned bachelor of arts degree there in 1856. among undergraduate classmates chauncey depew, later u.s. senator new york, , david josiah brewer, became brown s colleague on supreme court. depew roomed across hall brown 3 years in old north middle hall, , remembered feminine quality [about brown] led being called henrietta, though there never more robust, courageous , decided man in meeting problems of life[.] after yearlong tour of europe, brown studied law judge john h. brockway of ellington, connecticut. completed legal studies year @ yale law school, , semester @ harvard law school.








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