Orlando Brown (Frankfort Newspaperman)
b. 1801-09-26 d. 1867-07-26
Frankfort, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Frankfort native. Son of John Brown and Margaretta Mason Brown. Married Mary Watts Brown on July 29, 1830. Father of Euphemia Brown, John Brown, and Orlando Brown, Jr. Married Mary Price Brodhead Brown on October 12, 1852. Studied with Kean O'Hara in Danville, Kentucky. Graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1820. Graduated from law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1823. Practiced law in Alabama. Practiced law in Frankfort in 1830. Owned and edited the Frankfort Commonwealth in Frankfort from 1833 to 1842. Corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort in 1836. Appointed Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky by John J. Crittenden in 1848. United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs under Zachary Taylor from June 30, 1849 to July 1, 1850. Editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth in Frankfort in 1862.
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