Benjamin Brown (developer) dating history

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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. 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.