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Description
John Marshall Brown (1838-1907), a native of Portland, was an 1860 graduate of Bowdoin College. He studied law, but went into the Twentieth Maine Regiment in 1862.
He was named Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers in June 1863 and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 32nd Regiment Maine Volunteers in 1864.
After the war, Brown joined his father's firm, J.B Brown & Sons, a sugar processing company. He was active in civic affairs, including the Maine Historical Society, preisdnet of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association, Bowdoin College Board of Overseers, and the Maine Agricultural Society.
About This Item
- Title: John Marshall Brown, ca. 1870
- Creator: J.H. Lamson; Lamson Studio
- Creation Date: circa 1870
- Subject Date: circa 1870
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 15 cm x 11 cm
- Local Code: Photographs--People--Brown
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Portland (Me.)--Businesses
- Portland Sugar Company (Portland, Me.)
- J.B. Brown & Sons (Portland, Me.)
- Thornhurst (Dwelling)
- Sugar factories--Maine--Portland
- Brown, John Marshall, 1838-1907--Portrait photographs
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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