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About Judge Jeremiah C. Brown
Jeremiah Brown (April 14, 1785 – March 2, 1858) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Jeremiah Brown was born in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania. He engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1826. He was a delegate to the convention to revise the State constitution in 1836.
Brown was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844. He served as first associate judge for Lancaster and served from 1851 to 1856. He died in Goshen, Pennsylvania, in 1858. Interment in the cemetery adjoining Penn Hill Quaker Meeting House in Little Britain Township. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Brown_(politician)
US Congressman. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826 and to the Constitutional Convention of 1837. He was elected to represent Pennsylvania's 4th and 8th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1841 to 1845. He then served as an associate judge for Lancaster from 1851 to 1856. Like many Quakers, he was an abolitionist. Like other stations on the Underground Railroad, his house had a secret passage where African-American stayed on their way north.
Judge Jeremiah C. Brown's Timeline
1785 |
April 14, 1785
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Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1806 |
1806
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Somerset, Pennsylvania
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1808 |
July 14, 1808
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Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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1810 |
April 5, 1810
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Goshen, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1812 |
January 5, 1812
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Little Brittain, Lancaster, PA, United States
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1814 |
June 27, 1814
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Pennsylvania, United States
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1816 |
September 6, 1816
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Little Brittain Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
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1822 |
August 3, 1822
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Pennsylvania, United States
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1830 |
July 4, 1830
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Fulton Township, Lancaster County, PA, United States
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1832 |
October 14, 1832
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