BIO: Roscoe C. E. Brown; New York State
surname: Brown

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Roscoe C. E. Brown, of New York city, appointed State Civil Service
Commissioner by Governor Higgins on January 19, 1905, to succeed Cuthbert W.
Pound, who resigned to become the Governor's Counsel, was born in Scottsville,
N.Y., on August 23, 1867. His father was the late D. D. S. Brown, sometime
proprietor of "The Rochester Democrat," now "The Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle," and vice-president of the Rochester and State Line, now the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad. He attended the public school of
his native town and was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1889.
That institution conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1904.

     Immediately after graduation from college Mr. Brown joined the city
staff of "The New York Tribune," and became assistant day editor in 1893. In
1905 he became an editorial writer for that journal, devoting himself
especially to political, constitutional and socialogical questions. Since 1906
he has been the managing editor of "The Tribune." For several years before he
became a Civil Service Commissioner Mr. Brown was a member of the Executive
Committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association, and he is a
director of the People's University Extension Society. He belongs to the Phi
Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi college fraternities, and is a member of the
Union League and Alpha delta Phi Clubs of New York.