Benjamin Brown (developer)

Benjamin Brown (née Lipshitz), (1885 – 1939), 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.[1] 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.

Roosevelt, N.J. School Wall Picture of Benjamin Brown

Benjamin Brown grave site - Roosevelt, N.J.