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Goold Brown was born on March 7, 1791 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Smith and Lydia (Gould) Brown. (His mother's name is given here in the spelling of the Providence records. )
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Goold Brown was born on March 7, 1791 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Smith and Lydia (Gould) Brown. (His mother's name is given here in the spelling of the Providence records. )
Goold's father, a school-teacher and essayist, began to instruct him in Greek and Latin at an age when even children with quick minds are only learning to read their mother tongue; but after making a brilliant record in the Friends School Brown was compelled to forego a college education and to aid in supporting the family.
Goold Brown is said to have engaged first in "mercantile pursuits" and to have found the work thoroughly repugnant to him. He next taught a district school near Providence and in 1811 was appointed to a position in the Nine Partners Boarding School at Mechanic, Dutchess County, New York. Two years later he became a teacher in John Griscom's school in New York. Finally he opened an academy of his own and conducted it for about twenty years.
He published the Child's First Book (1822); Institutes of English Grammar (1823); First Lines of English Grammar, Being a Brief Abstract of the Author's Larger Work (1823); Key to the Exercises for Writing Contained in the Institutes of English Grammar (1825); and a Catechism of English Grammar; with Parsing Exercises (1827). Although his text-books never enjoyed the enormous vogue of Lindley Murray's or Samuel Kirkham's, the Institutes and the First Lines sold well from the beginning and gained steadily in popular esteem.
Twice revised by later hands, they were still in use in 1929 in many Catholic parochial schools and in some of the public schools of New York City. Of English grammars only William Cobbett's has enjoyed so long a life. Brown seems to have been active, though not especially prominent, among New York Friends: in the autumn of 1830, as a member of a joint committee of the New York and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings, he approved a circular urging the support of a proposed school (Haverford School) that in time became Haverford College.
In 1835-36 his name appears for the last time in the New York City Directory, his residence then being 374 Pearl St. ; but whether he moved immediately to Lynn, Massachussets, where he spent his last years, is uncertain. Possessed of a sufficient income, he was free to devote himself to his favorite subject.
As a scientific student of the English language he has no standing whatever, but over the methods of teaching grammar and over the content of later American text-books he has exercised a strong and not entirely happy influence.
Brown finished reading the proof sheets of the second edition just three weeks before he died in his home on South Common St. in Lynn.
Goold Brown's The Grammar of English Grammars went into its tenth edition in 1880 and even in 1929 its copy was still worth ten dollars in antiquarian book stores. He studied grammar after his own fashion with religious fervor and in 1851 published that leviathan of school books, the Grammar of English Grammars, an awe-inspiring octavo of over 1, 100 pages.
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His parents were Quakers.
Like all grammarians, he professed to base his work on actual usage; in fact, however, he disdained the spoken language altogether and gave his approval only to such constructions as met his rigid notions of logic and propriety. One of the features of the book was the hundreds of examples of "false syntax" culled from the works of rival grammarians. Brown had a real gift for defining terms and for discriminating usage, but the merits of his book are buried under a heap of pedantic rubbish.
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In conventional phrases but with probable truth the local newspaper spoke of the many nameless acts of kindness and of love that had endeared him to his fellow townsmen.
His wife and two adopted daughters survived him.
