Background
Ebenezer Brown was born in 1795 in Massachusetts, probably at Chesterfield.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Together with a Work on the Proofs of the Existence of God. Translated from the 2D German Ed. by E.B. Speirs, ... Translation Edited by E.B. Speirs; Volume 2
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Ebenezer Brown
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Career
Ebenezer Brown entered the Methodist ministry in 1818, being received on trial in that year by the New York Conference and appointed to Stowe (Vermont), in the Champlain District, and in the next year sent to Suffolk, in the New York District.
Brown's mission to the French, although a failure, marked the first missionary enterprise of American Methodism, and Brown, himself, was the first missionary sent out by the Methodist Board. Returning North in 1821 he served pastorates in Middlebury, Vermont (1821), in Hartford, Connecticut (1822), and in New York City 1823 and 1824.
Although a gifted and successful minister, he retired from the active work at the early age of thirty, because of continued ill health. Shortly after his retirement Brown engaged, about 1827, in the business of a dry-goods merchant at 285 River St. , Troy.
Just about this time Hannah Lord Montague (1794 - 1878), daughter of William Lord, a Revolutionary officer, and wife of Orlando Montague, conceived the idea of saving laundry work by cutting off the collars from her husband's shirts.
Upon his removal to New York, Brown organized the firm of E. Brown & Company which carried on a commission business for many years. His last residence after his retirement was the home of his daughter in Baltimore, where he died in his ninety-fourth year.
He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Achievements
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Ebenezer Brown first invented "string collars, " as they were known, which were worn with the old-fashioned stock tie, and tied around the neck with a string attached to each end of the collar. Brown continued the manufacture until his removal to New York in 1834, when the production was taken up on a larger scale by the firm of Orlando Montague & Austin Granger.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Together with a Work on the Proofs of the Existence of God. Translated from the 2D German Ed. by E.B. Speirs, ... Translation Edited by E.B. Speirs; Volume 2
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Together with a Work on the Proofs of the Existence of God. Translated from the 2D German Ed. by E.B. Speirs, ... Translation Edited by E.B. Speirs; Volume 2
Religion
In his religious affiliation Ebenezer Brown was a Methodist, so, at some point, upon the advice of Bishop McKendree, Brown was selected by Bishop George "to preach to the French inhabitants of the South". Brown, who for some time had devoted himself to a study of French in preparation for this work, found upon his arrival in New Orleans that the French people had "no ready ear for the Gospel" and he devoted himself to the ministry of a small group of English-speaking Methodists in that city.
Personality
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The commercial possibilities of a detachable collar appealed to Brown and in 1829 he "bargained with a number of women to make, wash and iron them, and to accept such goods as were sold by him in payment for their labor. The collars in assorted sizes were placed in paper-boxes, sixteen or more inches in length, and sold to customers and dealers patronizing him".
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January 3, 1889 (aged 94) -
Resting place
Woodlawn Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States -
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Religion
Methodist