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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 proposed free-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 Portsmouth . . . . . . . . . 1784-1788
Friends’ Boarding School at Providence opened . . . . . . . 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 exclusively . . . . . . . . . 1926

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