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Birth:          8 Feb 1869 Stillman Valley, Ill.
Death:          Dec 1967 of New Monterey, Cal.

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1910 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., Cal. university professor says father b Mich. m NJ
1920 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., Cal.
1930 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co., Cal. teacher university
1940 in Berkeley, Alameda Co., Cal. occ retired lined out
From http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/BrownJ.pdf
MEMORIAL RESOLUTION
JOSEPH GRANT BROWN
(1869 – 1967)
Joseph Grant Brown, in the ninety-ninth year of his life, passed away in Monterey
Peninsula Community Hospital on the sixth day of December, 1967. He was at the 
time, by a wide margin, the oldest of Stanford's living professors emeriti.
Professor Brown was born in Stillman Valley, Illinois, graduated from Illinois Normal 
University in 1898, and came to Stanford for training in physics at the instance of 
Professor Fernando Sanford of the pioneer faculty. Here he took the A.B. and A.M. 
degrees and rose through the ranks from teaching assistant to full Professor of 
Physics, passing to emeritus status in 1934.
Though Professor Brown outlived nearly all of his contemporaries, there survive
colleagues who well remember his devotion to student welfare—intellectual and 
personal—his pedagogical originality, and the high quality of his academic citizenship in 
a formative period of the University's life. His research activities are of course 
somewhat better documented. Though lacking the full doctoral training now regarded 
as a sine qua non of investigation, he published in physical chemistry and developed 
a respected voice in geophysical matters, particularly in the field of atmospheric 
electricity.
In appreciation of the useful life of this esteemed colleague, we offer this memorial 
minute and request that a copy of it be sent to his survivors with the sympathy of this 
Council.
Leonard I. Schiff, Chairman
Paul H. Kirkpatrick
Frederick O. Koenig
David L. Webster
Ebenezer Nims tree on ancestry

Parents
BROWN Joseph A. (26 Feb 1814 - 20 Jul 1870)
TAYLOR Carrie Yano (20 May 1844 - 12 Aug 1911)

Siblings
BROWN Martha Ruth (21 Oct 1865 - 26 Oct 1938)
BROWN Joseph Grant (8 Feb 1869 - Dec 1967)
BROWN Alice Taylor (9 Nov 1870 - 26 Mar 1880)

Marriage To NIMS Grace K. (24 Apr 1880 - 12 May 1916)
    m. 30 Jun 1903 New Monterey, Cal.

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Parents
NIMS William M. ()
MORDEN Sarah Ann ()

Children by NIMS Grace K. 24 Apr 1880 - 12 May 1916
BROWN Morden Grant (8 Dec 1906 - 20 Feb 1983)
BROWN Dudley Taylor (7 Aug 1908 - 21 May 1953)
BROWN Russell William (15 Sep 1914 - )

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