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FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE

HAROLD H. BROWN
Early Wright Sportsman Pilot

Harold H. Brown was born at Boston, Massachusetts November 4, 1872, son of the President of the Fairbanks Company. He attended local primary schools, and later the Public Latin, Nobles and Hales preparatory schools. He then entered Harvard University in 1893 in Engineering and spent his senior year at the Lawrence Scientific School.

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Brown did not graduate because during the spring of that year he became intensely interested in the theatre and left to study magic. His idols were the renowned magicians Thurston and Houdini, and during his studies Brown gained the friendship of both men.

After leaving college in 1897 Brown entered the Coast Signal Service, serving in the Spanish-American War with the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Coast Artillery. During this period he held the rank of Quartermaster 2nd class, later as Paymaster and Quartermaster, Wolcott Camp, U.S.W.V. Department of Massachusetts for three years.

From 1905-1907 Brown was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Power Boat Association, and in 1906 became an early member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Mechanically inclined, and due to his college training, he practiced mechanical engineering for many years and invented a number of devices

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