Early career Henry Billings Brown
1 career
1.1 family , education
1.2 legal activities in detroit
1.3 personal life
early career
family , education
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.
legal activities in detroit
admitted michigan bar in 1860, brown s law practice in detroit, michigan, specialized in admiralty law (that is, shipping on great lakes). in addition private law practice, @ times between 1861 , 1868 brown served deputy u.s. marshal, assistant united states attorney eastern district of michigan, , judge of wayne county circuit court in detroit.
personal life
in 1864, brown married caroline pitts, daughter of wealthy michigan lumber merchant. had no children. did not serve in union army during civil war, many well-to-do men instead hired substitute soldier take place.
brown kept diaries college days until appointment federal judge in 1875. held in burton historical collection of detroit public library, suggest both genial , ambitious, depressed , doubtful himself.
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