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Seymour J. BrownBookbinderCatlin Building, cor. of Main and AsylumHartfordConn, (1835) 1.1. Hartford Board of Trade, Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, Business andCommercial Center. 1889, pg. 982. Robinson Building: Next north of the Center Church.  occupying the uppertwo floors and the attic “After a short tenancy” (at the Catlin Building) ibid3. 1841: Brown & Drake. (Sidney Drake). ibid4. (1849)132 1/2 Main Street: Mercantile Union, Business Directory for NewEngland, ibid pg. 2855. (1852) Seymour Brown sold his interest to his brother: Luther R..  HartfordBoard of Trade, Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, Business and CommercialCenter. 1889, pg. 986. (1854)  Drake, Brown & Co.  Sydney Drake, Luther Brown and John  G.Parsons). Bound Webster’s Dictionary. ibid.7. High Street, building owned by Willis Thrall ibid.8. (1858) Drake & Parsons, 354 Asylum St.. .  ‘Thrall”s Building burned andthe stock, tools accounts  and records  are destroyed. Brown retires and theremaining partners buy the bindery of Silas Andrus. and move to Asylum st.. ibid pg.99.

Valentine Brown Bookbinder 211 Water StreetNew YorkNew York 1.1. (1825)2. (1826) 6 Baucker Street. Longworth’s Directory. (1827) 37 Suffolk. New York Directory , pg. 106.

Peter BrowneBookbinderAugustaGeorgia 1.1. (1808-1808) Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vol. 24, no. 2.1998. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts identification number: 47731.

Der BruderschaaftPrinters Bookbinders and PublishersEphrata Pennsylvania (1751-1764)1.1. Charles Evans American Bibliography; a Chronological Dictionary of allBooks and Pamphlets,1639-1820, vol. 3, pg. 445.

George BrumderBookbinderMilwaukeeWisconsin(1857)  “He migrated to Wisconsin in 1857 where he became a bookseller,bookbinder, and publisher.” for  a nice short biography see Dictionary ofWisconsin History at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1092&