Benjamin Brown (developer)

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Benjamin Brown (né Lipschitz) (Template:Langx) (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]

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.

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Brown's gravesite in Roosevelt, New Jersey

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  2. Staff. "History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey", Rutgers University Libraries. Accessed February 14, 2011.