Brown's Business College was a chain of business colleges located in the Midwestern United States, started in Illinois in the 1870s by George W. Brown (1845-1918) of Jacksonville, Illinois.
[1][2] He grew the chain to at least 29 locations during the 1910s (though perhaps not all existed simultaneously).
Brown joined the faculty of the Jacksonville Business College in 1867, a year after it was founded by Rufus C. Crampton of Illinois College.
[3] A description of the schools from 1898 states that they provided instruction in "Accounting, Business and Office Practice, Writing, Expert Accounting, What is Required of Stenographers, and the Elements of Success in Business.
The Sanford–Brown group of colleges or "institutes" also traces their history through a St. Louis location of Brown's.