Isaac H. Brown (1812-1880) was the sexton at Grace Church in Greenwich Village, and arbiter of style in Manhattan where he planned weddings, arranged soirées and funerals for the wealthy of New York City.[1][2] His contribution to high society was so essential, a society journalist reported in 1850, that without him, "the ladies of our fashionable world would be at a loss to fill up their lists, the young gentlemen be without a patron, the carriages would stray about like lost sheep, the servants be wayward and fitful in their movements, and the whole charm of our social assemblages be gone."[3]
References
edit- ^ Alan Feuer (July 11, 2010). "A Sycophant's Sycophant". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "Death Of Sexton Brown. The Veteran Of Grace Church Dies In Connecticut. Malarial Fever The Cause. His Career From The Days When He Was A Carpenter". New York Times. August 23, 1880. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
Isaac H. Brown, the venerable sexton of Grace Church, died yesterday morning at Branford, a little village a few miles north of New-Haven, Conn. He had been a leading figure in Metropolitan society for nearly half a century, having had charge of most of the fashionable weddings and many of the funerals of noted personages among the Knickerbocker families.
- ^ Mitchell, Donald G. (March 14, 1850). The Lorgnette; or, Studies of the Town, by an Opera Goer. New York: Stringer and Townsend. pp. 183–84.