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iA. T. Brown, Gear Industry Pioneer and Typewriter Inventor, ExpiresIBrown-Lipe Company us I President,74, Dies at Home3Uf j Helped Organize FranklinIYCSVoting. *■ ui a. Ith-court KlaST*0 gel1 baitand Globe Forge CompaniesR ad-tnbdt venue house o ad-UlUlliSouth. An-mbda beardchap-I* fciwn lieAlexander T, Bjowh. psealden! of Lip? Gear Company. ia*Haior of the Sailifc-rreater iype* •ATSlt? 3T.ll Identified cnany olliie city's Iwdiu? lad bit fie.1?- la des* a: his fcame, 730 West Ohoccagt Street. lie died at 3 o'clock lutSlight after a long Mlctatt.One of ttif pioneer* 41' the gear Industry, Mr. Brown took an lm-, port am pan in hie organization ol j the 3L If- Franklin MabUfBCtyrtaB' I Company, the Globe Forge and Foundries lac, end the Smith-Premier typewriter Company.Alexander T. Brown waa horn Kot. j 21, 1BJ4 fct Sw.t, Cortland County, f line of colonial descent. The {of afamily settled In Cortland abDUt IBfiC .ir siand tnb paternal grandfather was one ;o Ifce e at danceZCU -n re-ttbers Betapans?ap-. ut cn them. him.of the first leacbejs in'.hLs region.Born on a farm A. T. Brown earl? • manifested the Jnechsnlcal knack and ; commercial azribtiion. which were to -• niake him a leader In the industrial * development of Syracuse.iie attended select school • near hoiie and iatcr.. was a student- si Homer Academy. At 23 he arrlTcd 5n Syracuse to hew out his fortune. He had r lu Me experience as a salesman for a harvester machine, company,. btit hw he pluuced Into shop nrac- : lice. • IListed as Machinist. 5• The city directories of the time 1 listed him as Alexander T, Brown, machinist. 3 East Fablus Street. He was in the fires«u business. • Syracuse was a center of gun manufacturing at-the lime and young Brown { was soon hailed at the inventor of ‘Pioneer, in Gear IndustryVeteran in Syracuse \ \ALLXAKDLR T. BKOWXthe lr. C, Smith shotgun, a sporting j; Syracusansai:Pay T ribute 1'V n
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Fri, Feb 01, 1929
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