Benjamin Brown (developer)

Benjamin Brown (né Lipschitz) (Yiddish: בנימין ליפשיץ) (1885 – 1939),^[1] 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.^[2]

Benjamin Brown
בנימין ליפשיץ
Brown in 1936
Born	Benjamin Lipschitz 1885 Tuchyn, Volhynia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1939 New Jersey, United States
Known for	Establishment of 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.

Brown's gravesite in Roosevelt, New Jersey