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Andrew Brown (industrialist) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Andrew Brown (industrialist) Andrew Brown, a Scottish–born Australian industrialist and philanthropist, was instrumental in founding the township of Lithgow as well as a number of Presbyterian educational institutions. ==Early life== Brown was born in Methven, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. In the period between 1824 and 1826 Brown acquired land at Bowenfels, effectively creating the first European settlement in the Lithgow Valley. He then acquired of land in the valley, around Cooerwull Brook (now known in Lithgow as Farmer's Creek). The property originally used for grazing, became known as Cooerwull after the small blue flowers which grow in the area. A suburb in Lithgow still retains the name.
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