Harrison Paul Brown was born in Waterloo, Indiana, in June of 1889.   He studied art at the University of Illinois for one year and was a 1912 graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under B.J.O. Nordfelt.  He was also a student at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan, possibly as early as 1910.  After graduation he took a job as supervisor of art and manual training at Berwyn, Illinois, and from 1913 to 1919 taught manual arts, mainly woodworking (showing 500 of 1308 characters).