Benjamin Brown (developer)

{{Infobox person | name = Benjamin Brown | image = Benjamin-Brown-1936.jpg | caption = Brown in 1936 | native_name = בנימין ליפשיץ | native_name_lang = yi | birth_name = Benjamin Lipschitz | birth_date = 1885 | birth_place = Tuchyn, Volhynia Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = 1939 | death_place = New Jersey, United States | known_for = Establishment of Roosevelt, New Jersey }}

'''Benjamin Brown''' (né Lipschitz) ({{Langx|yi|בנימין ליפשיץ|translit=}}) (1885 – 1939),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10998824:4394 |title=Encyclopaedia Judaica |publisher=Macmillan Reference USA |year=2007 |editor-last=Skolnik |editor-first=Fred |edition=Second edition. 22 volumes |location=Detroit |language=en |url-access=subscription}}</ref> 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.<ref>Staff. [http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/roosevelt/rstory.shtml "History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey"], Rutgers University Libraries. Accessed February 14, 2011.</ref>

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 seasonally employed Jewish textile workers largely from New York City. thumb|Brown's gravesite in Roosevelt, New Jersey

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==External links== *[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/roosevelt/rstory.shtml History of Roosevelt, New Jersey]

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