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Hobart Brown
Hobart Ray Brown, (February 27, 1934 – November 7, 2007) was an American sculptor and the founder of Kinetic Sculpture Racing. Early years Hobart Brown was born in Hess, Oklahoma, to a fifteen-year-old mother who migrated across country to California on the back of her husband's motorcycle. He later described it as his classic Okie experience, mirroring the great migration captured in John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' and other stories of the Dust Bowl years. Brown went to high school in Los Angeles a couple of classes after Marilyn Monroe, whom he remembered by her real name and describes as "a quiet, plain little thing - not at all what she became later." Adult life After a stint as an airplane mechanic with the U.S. Army in Cambrai - Fritsh Kaserne Darmstadt, Germany, and time spent running hot rods with his friends on local empty roads, he decided in 1962 to become an artist and moved to Humboldt County, California. Arriving in 1962 with his wife and two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobart Brown (bishop)
John Henry Hobart Brown (called Hobart; December 1, 1831 – May 2, 1888) was the first Diocesan bishop, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, Diocese of Fond du Lac in the ECUSA, Episcopal Church. Early life Brown was born on December 1, 1831, in New York City. After theological studies at the General Theological Seminary, New York, he was ordained to the diaconate in Trinity Church, New York on April 2, 1854, by Bishop Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (bishop), Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright. The following year he was ordained to the priesthood at the Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings, Church of The Holy Communion, New York, on December 1, 1855, by Bishop Horatio Potter. In 1854, Brown served as assistant in Grace Church, Brooklyn, Long Island, and while there organized the Church of The Good Angels, (now Emmanuel Church,) Brooklyn, of which he became rector. In 1856 he became rector of the Church of The Evangelists, (old S. George's Chapel,) Beekman Street, New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
