James Joseph Brown
Businessperson, Inventor
1854 – 1922
Who was James Joseph Brown?
James Joseph "J.J." Brown, mining engineer, inventor, and self-made member of fashionable "society", was born in Waymart, Pennsylvania. His wife was RMS Titanic survivor Molly Brown.
J.J's father, James Brown, was an Irish immigrant. His mother, Cecilia Palmer, was a schoolteacher. J.J's family moved to Pittston, Pennsylvania shortly after his birth. J.J's mother home-schooled him and later sent him to St. John's Academy. He left home at the age of 23 lured by the riches in the West. His first stop was a farm in Nebraska. From Nebraska he moved to the placer mines in the Dakotas. He spent two years learning the mining trade before moving to Colorado where he tried his luck in Georgetown, Aspen, and Ashcroft. He spent another two years in the Aspen and Ashcroft area before moving to Alma, Fairplay, Red Cliff, and, finally, Leadville. He studied geology, ore deposits and mining techniques to become a better miner.
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- Born
- Sep 27, 1854
Waymart - Spouses
- Margaret Brown
(1886/09/01 - 1909)
- Margaret Brown
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Died
- Sep 5, 1922
Nassau
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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