Goold Brown
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1791|03|07}}
| birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1857|03|31|1791|03|07}}
| death_place = Lynn, Massachusetts
| nationality = American
| spouse = Mary Starbuck
| parents = Smith Brown and Lydia Gould
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Goold Brown (March 7, 1791 – March 31, 1857) was an American grammarian.
Biography
Goold Brown was born in Providence, Rhode Island 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.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXBGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA265 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=VIII |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=265–266 |year=1924 |access-date=2021-01-21 |via=Google Books}}
He was educated in Friends' Schools in Providence and Dutchess County, New York. He began teaching at age 19, and at 21 he opened an academy for classical and literary studies in New York City.
He died in Lynn, Massachusetts on March 31, 1857.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68183681/death-of-goold-brown-the-grammarian/ |title=Death of Goold Brown, the Grammarian |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |page=4 |date=1857-04-06 |access-date=2021-01-21 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Bibliography
- Institutes of English Grammar, in 1823
- First Lines of English Grammar, in 1823
- The Grammar of English Grammars, in 1851
References
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External links
- [http://virtualology.com/apgooldbrown/ Goold Brown]
- {{Gutenberg author |id=4049 | name=Goold Brown}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Goold Brown |sopt=t}}
- {{Librivox author |id=9561}}
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Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:Grammarians from the United States
Category:19th-century American linguists
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