[1] When he was thirteen the family moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he attended Antioch College, from which he graduated with a BA degree in 1862.

In 1896 the predominantly Republican Legislature elected him and Frank J. Cannon as Utah's first U.S. senators, an office sought by many prominent men as it was the great political prize of statehood.

Brown was also the second cousin of future President Calvin Coolidge[4] and a member of the Phillips Congregational Church, in Salt Lake City.

Bradley assumed Brown was having a second affair with Kiskadden and confronted him at The Raleigh Hotel on 12th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue.

[7] At trial, it was revealed that Brown's will renounced Bradley and the two sons she claimed he sired, and a sympathetic jury acquitted her due to temporary insanity.