Benjamin Brown (developer)
Benjamin Brown (né Lipschitz) (Yiddish: בנימין ליפשיץ) (1885 – 1939),[1] 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.[2]
Benjamin Brown | |
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בנימין ליפשיץ | |
 Brown in 1936 | |
| Born | Benjamin Lipschitz 1885 |
| Died | 1939 New Jersey, United States |
| Known for | Establishment of Roosevelt, New Jersey |
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.
Brown's gravesite in Roosevelt, New Jersey
References
- Skolnik, Fred, ed. (2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica (Second edition. 22 volumes ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
- Staff. "History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey", Rutgers University Libraries. Accessed February 14, 2011.
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