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Nicholas Brown

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nicholas Brown 1769-1841, American manufacturer and philanthropist, b. Providence, R.I., grad. Rhode Island College (renamed Brown Univ. in 1804 for him), 1786. He extended the internationally known mercantile business of his father, Nicholas Brown. Later his own firm, Brown and Ives, came to control most of the waterpower on the Blackstone River, where his uncle, Moses Brown, and Samuel Slater had pioneered in the cotton textile industry. He was the treasurer (1796-1825) and, for a long period of time, the benefactor of his alma mater. Butler Hospital was founded (1847), in Providence, ... Read more
Ray, Nicholas
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers RAY, Nicholas Nationality: American. Born: Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in Galesville, Wisconsin, 7 August 1911. Education ... Cin é ma (Paris), November 1958. "Conversation with Nicholas Ray and Joseph Losey," with Penelope Houston, in Sight ... Read more
Nicholas Black Elk
Encyclopedia of World Biography Nicholas Black Elk Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) was an ... War Bonnett, died in 1903. Nicholas, added as a Christian name ... octogenarian. In 1947 Joseph Epes Brown, later a scholar of Native ... met Black Elk in Nebraska. Brown spent the next winter with ... of the Oglala people which Brown ... Read more

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