Frederick Warner Brown 1893-1972

Frederick Brown graduated from Heidelberg College in Ohio in 1914 and from Princeton University in 1917, where he received a degree in theology. During this time, Brown was an ambulance driver in the French army in WWI.

In the summer of 1922 Brown worked as a psychologist in the speech clinic associated with the University of Wisconsin. Brown then went to the University of Iowa where he became a research associate in the Department of Psychology, under the supervision of Carl Seashore (1922-1923). He and Lee Edward Travis were students at Iowa at the same time.

Between the years of 1922 and 1925 Brown also worked as a Professor of English and Speech at the Kokkaldo Imperial University in Japan. He returned to the US in 1925 and became an Associate Professor in the Department of Spoken English at Smith College. It was during this time that he became a charter member of ASHA.

In 1927, Brown served on the staff of the Minneapolis Child Guidance Clinic, along with Smiley Blanton and Margaret Blanton.

For the next ten years (1927-1937), Brown was affiliated with national organizations including the Department of Information and Statistics, the National Committee on Mental Hygiene, and the Department of Census. His expertise was in mental disorders.

His last place of employment was for the Sewanhaka Public Schools, Long Island (Floral Park, NY), where he established speech and behavior clinic and organized a child guidance department. In that capacity he also worked as a psychologist and speech pathologist.

Brown’s particular contributions to the field were in areas of stuttering and behavior problems of children, education of mentally retarded children, statistics of mental disorders, and army personnel classification and testing.

References, arranged chronologically

Brown, F. W. (1932). Review of mental aspects of stammering and the nature and treatment of stammering by C. S. Bluemel, E. J. Boome & M. A. Richardson. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2(4), 417–420. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0096156

Brown, F. W. (1932). Stuttering: Its neuro-physiological basis and probable causation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2, 4, 363–376. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1932.tb05190.x

Brown, F. W. (1932). Viewpoints on stuttering. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2, 1, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1932.tb05161.x

Brown, F. W. (1932). Review of the book Speech Pathology: A dynamic neurological treatment of normal speech and speech deviations, by L. E. Travis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2, 1, 95–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1932.tb05168.x

Brown, F. W. (1933). Review of the book Speech and Voice, by G. O. Russell. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 3, 1, 89–90. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0096160

Brown, F. W. (1933). Review of the book Correction of Defective Speech, by E. B. Twitmeyer & Y. S. Nathanson. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 3, 1, 90–91. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0096161

Brown, F. (1933) Personality integration as the essential factor in the permanent cure of stuttering. Mental Hygiene, 17: 266-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1932.tb05168.x

Brown, F. W. (1935). Review of the book Textbook of Abnormal Psychology, by R. M. Dorcas & G. W. Shaffer, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 5, 4, 427–429. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0096225.