Goold Brown (March 7, 1791 – March 31, 1857) was an American
grammarian.
Biography
Goold Brown was born in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts ...
on March 7, 1791, the third child of Smith Brown and Lydia Gould. His family could be traced to some of the earliest Quakers in New England.
He was educated in
Friends' Schools in Providence and
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later or ...
. He began teaching at age 19, and at 21 he opened an academy for classical and literary studies in New York City.
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He died in ]Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
on March 31, 1857.
Bibliography
* ''Institutes of English Grammar'', in 1823
* ''First Lines of English Grammar'', in 1823
* ''The Grammar of English Grammars'', in 1851
References
External links
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1791 births
1857 deaths
American non-fiction writers
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