Alexander Blaine Brown

Alexander Blaine Brown was elected the seventh president of Jefferson College on October 14, 1847. The son of Matthew Brown, Jefferson College's fifth president, Brown was professor of belles lettres and adjunct professor of languages from 1841 to 1847. Under his presidency the college continued to prosper and in 1852 Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was founded at Jefferson College. Brown resigned in August 1856 due to ill health.[1]

Alexander Blaine Brown
BornAugust 1, 1808
DiedJuly 29, 1863(1863-07-29) (aged 54)
EducationAllegheny College
ChurchPresbyterian
OrdainedOctober 1831
Offices held
7thpresident of Jefferson College (1847–1856)

Selected works

  • Brown, Alexander Blaine; John MacLean; Matthew Boyd Hope (1858). Letters on the True Relations of Church and State to Schools and Colleges. J. T. Robinson.

References

  1. "Alexander B. Brown (1847–1856)". U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives. Washington & Jefferson College. September 4, 2003.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
President of Jefferson College
1847–1856
Succeeded by
Joseph Alden
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