Benjamin Brown (developer)

Benjamin Brown (née Lipshitz), (1885 – 1939), was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant to the United States, a social idealist who developed a Jewish Agricultural cooperative settlement in Clarion, Utah and an Agro-Industrial cooperative settlement in Jersey Homesteads, Roosevelt, New Jersey.^[1] Brown attained wealth through a poultry exchange he established between Western states and New York after the failure of the Clarion effort in 1916. In 1933, Brown attempted to reestablish a new Jewish cooperative effort in rural Monmouth County, N.J. employing unemployed Jewish textile workers from New York.

Roosevelt, N.J. School Wall Picture of Benjamin Brown

Benjamin Brown grave site - Roosevelt, N.J.

References

1. Staff. "History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey", Rutgers University Libraries. Accessed February 14, 2011.

External links

• History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey