The Newberry Library
Newberry Seminar in Religious History
co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School
and the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Catholic Progressive? The Case of Chicago's Judge E. O. Brown.
Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame
November 7, 2002, 4:00-6:00 pm
The paper presents the life of Edward Osgood Brown (1847-1923), a Chicago lawyer and judge. Brown was born into an impeccably Yankee family in Massachusetts and converted to Catholicism early in life. He arrived in Chicago in 1872 and opened a law office. He befriended John Peter Altgeld, advocated Henry George's single tax, was a self-described "Radical Democrat," and anti-imperialist in 1899. He was well acquainted with Chicago's reformers from Henry Demarest Lloyd to Jane Addams to Harold Ickes. He was the first president of the Chicago NAACP and a life-long "race man."
E-mail or call to receive a copy of the paper. We prefer to send papers as e-mail attachments. Please include your e-mail address with all correspondence.
The seminar format assumes that all participants have read the essay in advance, and that those requesting the paper will attend the seminar.
Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.
We encourage faculty members to call the seminar to the attention of graduate students.
| 
