Peter A. Brown - b. Pluladelphia WIDENER

Education

Studied at public and high school. Learned meat business.

Career

Became prominent in Republican politics. Appointed 1873 to serve out term of Joseph F. Mercer as City Treasurer of Philadelphia. Re-elected, 1874; largely interested in street railways.

Presented building for the Free Public Library of Philadelphia. Founded and endowed The Widener Memorial Home and Training School for Crippled Children, Phila., Pennsylvania (United States). Director and Member of Finance Committee, United States Steel Corporal.

Director Reading Railroad, Lehigh Valley, etc. Owns collection of Old Masters, and steam yacht Josephine.

Connections

Spouse 1858, H. Josephine Dunton (deed.).

Spouse:

H. Josephine Dunton