Later Life
Almost three years before he died, Brown wrote his memoir. In it. he was referred to Quaker Johns Hopkins as a "wealthy Union man" and as a member of a committee of bankers who gave $500,000 to the city of Baltimore after the first blood in the Civil War was shed there. Hopkins selected Brown as one of the trustees of the university (but not of the hospital) who would oversee the construction and founding of the institutions now known as the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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