Edwin Franklin Brown

from The New York Times, January 11, 1903:

     Col. Edwin F. Brown.
Col. Edwin Franklin Brown, Inspector
General of National Homes for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, died of heart disease
yesterday morning at his apartment in the
Westleigh, in the West One Hundred and
Twenty-third Street. He was born near the
village of Medina, in Western New York,
in 1823. His father was Jeremiah Brown,
a Captain in the War of 1812. At the begin-
ing of the civil war he volunteered for ser-
vice and he was commissioned Lieutenant
Colonel of the Twenty-eighth New York
Infantry, which served with the Army
of the Potomac until 1863. At Cedar Mount-
tain in 1862 he lost an arm. When the
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol-
diers at Dayton, Ohio, was opened, he was
appointed acting Governor, later he was
Governor of the central branch, and when
the number of such homes became large,
in 1880, he was made Inspector General.

Photo from A Brief History of the Twenty-eighth Regiment.