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William Perry Brown
William Perry Brown, son of Brigadier General Philip Perry Brown and Sarah (Jackson) Brown, was born near Ardmore, Indian Territory, in 1847. The family originally came from New Yo...view moreWilliam Perry Brown, son of Brigadier General Philip Perry Brown and Sarah (Jackson) Brown, was born near Ardmore, Indian Territory, in 1847. The family originally came from New York, but his father was a minister and in charge of a mission school in the Indian Territory when he was born. He attended Madison (now Colgate) College, Hamilton, New York, but was not graduated. At the outbreak of the Civil War, his father left him with his grandfather at Philadelphia, where he began some kind of odd job work on a newspaper.view less