Background
Alexander Brown was born on September 5, 1843 the son of Robert Lawrence Brown and Sarah Cabell (Callaway) Brown.
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Alexander Brown was born on September 5, 1843 the son of Robert Lawrence Brown and Sarah Cabell (Callaway) Brown.
Alexander Brown studied under Horace W. Jones, noted as a molder of the minds and characters of boys, and in his library acquired his taste for history. In 1860 he matriculated at Lynchburg College. The outbreak of the Civil War interrupted his education, and at the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Confederate army.
For several years after the war Alexander Brown was a salesman in Washington, D. C. , but his deafness unfitted him for business, and he returned to Nelson County, where he engaged in farming. He led a retired life, devoting every spare moment to historical research.
His first work, New Views of Early Virginia History, appeared in 1886.
There followed, in 1890, The Genesis of the United States, a collection of documents, many never before published, relating to the founding of the British Empire in America. The Cabells and Their Kin appeared in 1895, The First Republic in America and The History of Our Earliest History in 1898, and English Politics in Early Virginia History in 1901.
(Originally published in 1901. This volume from the Cornel...)
Alexander Brown's interest centered in the first two decades of Virginia history, and he spared no effort in searching out original evidence on that period. Year after year he labored patiently, writing to librarians and historians, securing experts to search the archives and copy manuscripts, and practising rigid economy to meet the costs. Brown contended that the history of early Virginia had been falsified by the Court party in England, to discredit the liberal group in the London Company. This was done by suppressing the Company's records, and licensing Captain John Smith's "incorrect, unjust, and ungenerous" works.
In December 1864 the explosion of a powder-boat, near Fort Fisher, North Carolina, rendered him almost totally deaf.
Alexander Brown married Caroline Augusta Cabell on December 27, 1873. His wife died in 1876, and on April 28, 1886, he married Sarah Randolph Cabell.