President, Union Theological Seminary
Centurion, 1909–1916
Born 26 December 1849 in Hanover, New Hampshire
Died 15 October 1916 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Dartmouth College Cemetery
, Hanover, New Hampshire
Proposed by Nicholas Murray Butler and John Crosby Brown
Elected 1 May 1909 at age fifty-nine
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
Francis Brown, president of the Union Theological Seminary, was an eminent Hebrew scholar, whose exceptional attainments were honored on both sides of the Atlantic. A Dartmouth man, he graduated from Union Seminary in 1877. There he soon began to teach, and in 1881 was made associate professor of Biblical Philology, and in 1890 Davenport Professor of Hebrew. In 1908 he was chosen as its president. Dr. Brown wrote a number of works bearing upon Biblical philology and theology; and with Professors Driver and Briggs was the co-author of the monumental Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. He was a man of notable presence, somewhat diffident; a wise and quiet soul, having the gift of taciturn companionship.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook