1845-1929
Justice of the Second Division of the Court of Appeals, 1889-1892
Charles F. Brown was born in Newburgh (Orange County), N.Y. Graduated Yale University, 1866; district attorney, Orange County. County judge, 1878; State supreme court justice, 1882. Secretary, Democratic State Committee, 1880-1882. Presiding justice General Term, Second Department, 1894-95; First presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, 1896. Died, Jun. 19, 1929, at age 84 (New York Times obituary, Jun. 20, 1929, p. 19). His portrait is hanging in the Attorneys’ Lounge at Court of Appeals Hall.
This biography appears in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). It has not been updated since publication. A more extensive biography appears in the Second Department section of this website.