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BROWN, son of George Brown, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1842.
He fitted for college in the Pittsfield High School and passed his full course with our Class.
During the undergraduate years Brown was frequently honored by his classmates. He was
a member of the 'Logian Literary Society and its president for one term during the Senior
year. He represented our Class, in Sophomore year, as one of the editors of the University
Quarterly. This same year he was editor and publisher of The Gulielmensian, and issued it
for the first time in a pamphlet edition; also on the committee of arrangements for the
Biennial Celebration ; assistant librarian of the college library, 1861-63; a member of the '63
Baseball Club, the Greylock; was one of the orators in Adelphic Union debate, October,
1862. He was one of the junior exhibition men, and at Commencement received an honorary oration, a Second Class honor.
After leaving college Brown studied law in the office of Colt and Pingree, Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, and later in Harvard Law School. While pursuing his law studies he was
also connected with the press as correspondent under the pseudonym of "Center." From
1866 to 1869 he was practicing law in St. Louis, Missouri, a portion of this time in
partnership with a cousin of the same name. He was also, during these years, in journalism,
joining this with his law practice. Between 1865 and 1873 he became interested in real
estate in Mason County, West Virginia.
In 1870 he married Mrs. Jennie S. Jenkins, widow of Confederate General A. G.
Jenkins, of West Virginia, and daughter of Hon. Judge Bolin. Atwood reports a son,
George Center, Jr., about one year old at the time of his report in 1873. A few years after
our 1873 report Brown removed from St. Louis to Cincinnati, Ohio, and the attractions of
journalism had by this time drawn him away from his law practice, so that he devoted most
of his time to newspaper work in connection with the Cincinnati Inquirer. He died of heart
failure December 18, 1892, in Cincinnati. It has not been possible to get any trace of his
family.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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