David A Brown(1875-1958)

 

Last updated 12/30/08

 

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David A. Brown was Harry Z. Brown's brother, thus he was Agnes Brown Scott's & Morris Brown's uncle, Deborah Scott Katz's (and siblings' and cousins') great uncle.

 

This site has a brief biography, and catalogs his papers from when he was in New York, which papers are in the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of American Jewish Archives on the Cincinnatti campus of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/FindingAids/DavidBrown.htm

 

Mr & Mrs. Brown chartered a boat, and Mr. & Mrs. Albert Kahn (architect) provided a lawn party for the Central Conference of American Rabbis' 25th Anniversary meeting in Detroit (1914): http://www.archive.org/stream/yearbook24centuoft/yearbook24centuoft_djvu.txt

 

David A Brown's relief efforts for the Russian Famine and Chinese Floods made him well-know to Herbert Hoover: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=22117

Herbert Hoover's papers are also cataloged here: http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/hh/1929/hh_contents_papers1929.html

 

His home on Boston Boulevard in Detroit was designed by architect Marcus Burrowes (1874-1953): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Burrowes

 

Rabbi Morris David Waldman (1879-1963), Executive Secretary of the American Jewish Committee 1925-1945 - his archive contains correspondence with David A Brown:

http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/FindingAids/Waldman.htm

 

1934 Quote:

http://guardian.150m.com/jews/jews-declare-war.htm

 

A letter from Samuel Untermeyer is cataloged here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6389/is_1_93/ai_n29359275/pg_24

 

Citation in book American Philanthropy Abroad by Merle Eugene Curti (1988, 617pp+):

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZDznnjvvq6oC&pg=PA377&lpg=PA377&dq=%22david+a.+brown%22+new+york&source=web&ots=RZkbh4_Mq7&sig=fPg30x7qrILEyPtAcIy9VJDT2DM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA377,M1

 

The American Jewish Archives site above says David A Brown co-founded the Old Newsboys with James L. Brady, although the Newsboys' site attributes this 100% to James J Brady. Here is another reference: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/dl.php?record=009252294

 

These Time Magazine articles mentioned him:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721123,00.html?promoid=googlep

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,751472-2,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,716472,00.html

 

These New York Times articles mention him:

Sponsors DSO Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1918): http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C02E1DE163EE433A25757C1A9639C946996D6CF

Continued Relief work (1929): http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60916F93A55167A93C5A91789D85F4D8285F9

 

He is listed in these Annual Reports of the American Jewish Committee:

http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1922_1923_8_AJCAnnualReport.pdf

http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1923_1924_6_DirectoriesLists.pdf

http://ajcarchives.net/AJC_DATA/Files/1923_1924_8_AJCAnnualReport.pdf

http://ajcarchives.net/AJC_DATA/Files/1939_1940_9_AJCAnnuaReport.pdf

 

Cited in book ""The First Holocaust: Jewish Fund Raising Campaigns with Holocaust Claims During and After World War One: by Don Heddesheimer: http://www.vho.org/GB/Books/tfh/5.html

 

 

Other citations:

 

http://www.jstor.org/pss/4467128

 

http://www.michjewishhistory.org/pdfs/vol38.pdf

 

 

 

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