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EIGHTEEN NINETEEN

Founder and History

MOSES BROWN, 1738-1836

Special friend of the poor and needy; counselor to the troubled; physician to
the poor and rich; apostle of temperance; advocate of peace; patriot and pacifist;
abolitionist; promoter and patron of industry; assemblyman and joint author
of the first proposedfree-school legislation for Providence; student of science; one
of the founders of the Providence Athenaeum Library, the Rhode Island Bible
Society, the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in Rhode Island, the Rhode
Island Peace Society, and the Rhode Island Historical Society; treasurer of the
School Fund for more than half a century; generous donor of land to, and leading
spirit in the founding of

MOSES BROWN SCHOOL

Yearly Meeting School at P o rtsm o u th ........................................................................................ 1784-1788
Friends’ Boarding School at Providence o p e n e d ........................................................................1819
Moses Brown School, name adopted ........................................................................................1904
Control of Lincoln School assumed for the education of girls and Moses Brown School made a
boys’ school e x c lu siv e ly ........................................................................................................ 1926