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Moses Brown (September 23, 1738 – September 6, 1836) was an American abolitionist, Quaker, and industrialist from what became known as Rhode Island. With his three brothers, he co-founded what became Brown University .
Moses Brown (1738–1836) was the school's founder and a member of the Brown family, a powerful mercantile family of New England. He was a pioneering advocate for the abolition of slavery, a co-founder of Brown University , and an industrialist.
The family was divided on the issue of slavery. John Brown had defended slavery, while Moses and Nicholas Brown Jr. were fervent abolitionists. In 2003, under the tenure of President Ruth Simmons, the university established a steering committee to investigate these ties of the university to slavery and recommend a strategy to address them. [39]
The 1764 Charter of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The history of Brown University spans 260 years. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England. [1]
John Brown (January 27, 1736 – September 20, 1803) was an American merchant, politician and slave trader from Providence, Rhode Island.Together with his brothers Nicholas, Joseph and Moses, Brown was instrumental in founding Brown University (then known as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) and moving it to their family's former estate in Providence.
University Hall: Joseph Brown (likely) Perry, Shaw and Hepburn 1770 1 Prospect St. The first building of Brown University, University Hall was originally called the "College Edifice." Until 1832, the building housed the entire institution, containing residential rooms, lecture and recitation rooms, a chapel, a library, and a dining hall.
Moses Brown Ives was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 21, 1794, and named after Moses Brown, the co-founder of Brown University.He was the eldest son of Thomas Poynton Ives (1769–1835) and Hope (née Brown) Ives (1773–1855).
It was a gift to the university by Moses Brown Ives Goddard in 1906. [1] It is an exact bronze copy of the Vatican Museum's classic Augustus of Prima Porta statue. The statue's arm broke off due to a hurricane that struck Providence in 1938. A replacement arm was subsequently stolen by students, its whereabouts unknown.