Judge Jeremiah C. Brown

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Jeremiah C. Brown

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: March 02, 1858 (72)
Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Jeremiah Brown and Hannah B. Brown
Husband of Anne Brown (Kirk); 2nd wife of Jeremiah Brown; Elizabeth Brown and 4th wife of Jeremiah Brown
Father of John Kirk Brown; Hannah Wood; Rachel Cook; Kirk Lewis Brown; Lewis H. Brown and 5 others
Brother of Sarah Haines; Joanna Brown; Levi Brown; Hannah England Stubbs; Deborah Kirk and 2 others

Occupation: Judge
Managed by: Eugene Thomas
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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.

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Judge Jeremiah C. Brown's Timeline

1785
April 14, 1785
Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
1806
1806
Somerset, Pennsylvania
1808
July 14, 1808
Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
1810
April 5, 1810
Goshen, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
1812
January 5, 1812
Little Brittain, Lancaster, PA, United States
1814
June 27, 1814
Pennsylvania, United States
1816
September 6, 1816
Little Brittain Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
1822
August 3, 1822
Pennsylvania, United States
1830
July 4, 1830
Fulton Township, Lancaster County, PA, United States
1832
October 14, 1832