Ames House, built about 1830 by Samuel Ames 1823 on the corner of Power and Brook Streets, was given to Brown in 1937 by Mrs. John Ormsbee Ames and Frank Mauran, Jr. Twenty-four rooms were remodeled to house thirty-eight graduate students who moved in the next year.Ames House
The first meeting of an alumni association recorded was in 1823.Associated Alumni
After graduation from Brown Albert Gorton Greene studied law in the office of John Whipple, passed the bar in 1823, and began the practice of law.Greene, Albert Gorton
Adoniram Judson1807 did not even want the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree awarded to him in 1823 and refused to use the title "Doctor."Honorary degrees
On January 13, 1823 the committee reported that a lot had been purchased from Nathan Waterman, on which an "elegant brick building ... in length one hundred and twenty feet, width forty feet, four stories high, and containing forty-eight rooms," had been erected.Hope College
In 1823 the Judsons and Dr. Price, who had joined the mission, left Rangoon for Ava, where the missionaries had been given land by the King.Judson, Adoniram
Adoniram Judson had been awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity of degree by the University in 1823, but refused to use that title.Judson, Adoniram
The style of Messer’s administration was described in "Brown University under the Presidency of Asa Messer, S.T.D., LL.D.," a pamphlet published anonymously in Boston in 1867, but known to be written by Silas Axtell Crane 1823.Messer, Asa
Charles William Parsons (1823-1893), professor of physiology, was born in Providence on September 6, 1823, the son of Professor Usher Parsons.Parsons, Charles W.
The annual catalogue for 1823 listed Enfield’s "Institute of Natural Philosophy" in the curriculum for the junior year.Physics
Following the revival of 1820 and similar revivals in other institutions, the custom of the "Concert of Prayer" or "College Fast" in the colleges began in 1823, and became an annual event celebrated in January or February.Religious Societies
After his one term in the United States House of Representatives, from 1821 to 1823, Russell retired from public life.Russell, Jonathan
Francis Wayland gained recognition for his sermon, "The Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise," preached before the Baptist Missionary Society of Boston in 1823, and his discourses of "The Duties of an American Citizen" in 1825.Wayland, Francis
William Williams (1752-1823), was born in Hilltown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1752, the son of a prosperous farmer who had emigrated from Wales.Williams, William
Williams continued as pastor of the church in Wrentham until his death on September 22, 1823.Williams, William