The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . is mother he is descended fromJonas Rice, the first permanent settler, and his son, Adonijah Rice, thefirst white child born in Worcester. Mr. Brown received his education in the public schools, and in i860became a clerk in the City Bank, where he remained until 1862, when heenlisted in the Fifty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, servinguntil 1863, when he returned to the City Bank, remaining there until 187 i,with the exception of one year in the Worcester National Bank as teller,and then returned to the City Bank
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . is mother he is descended fromJonas Rice, the first permanent settler, and his son, Adonijah Rice, thefirst white child born in Worcester. Mr. Brown received his education in the public schools, and in i860became a clerk in the City Bank, where he remained until 1862, when heenlisted in the Fifty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, servinguntil 1863, when he returned to the City Bank, remaining there until 187 i,with the exception of one year in the Worcester National Bank as teller,and then returned to the City Bank as assistant cashier. In 1871 hebecame a member of the firm of T. K. Earle & Company, card-clothingmanufacturers, and later was manager and treasurer of the T. K. EarleManufacturing Company. When the American Card Clothing Companywas formed in 1890, Mr. Brown was elected treasurer of that corporation,and still holds the office. ^Ir. Brown was one of the original members i>f the Ouinsigamond BoatClub, and maintains his connection with it. He is a member of the. GEORGE L. BROWNELL. The Worcester of 1898. 57?- Worcester Board of Trade, of the Worcester Fire Society, the Grand Armyof the Republic, and various other societies and organizations. He is aRepublican in politics. In 1872 Mr. Brown married r^Iariana Alifflin, daughter of Timothy Keeseand Xancy Shove (Hacker) Earle, and they have four sons. George Loomis Brownell was born July 13, 1854, at East Haddam, Con-necticut. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, atWilliston vSeminary, Easthampton, ]\Iassachusetts, and at the SheffieldScientific School of Yale University, where he was graduated in 1S75. He
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