Who Was Samuel W. Brown?
The man who has been often judged as a thief in relation to the coining and removal from the Mint of the five 1913 Liberty Head nickels had an otherwise upstanding life that belies or at least clouds such a portrayal.
Samuel Walter Brown was born on Aug. 2, 1879, in Pennsylvania to Fannie K. and Solomon D. Brown, a farming family native to Pennsylvania. His father died in 1895, when Samuel was in his teens.
By the time he was 20, in 1899, Brown was working as a school teacher and still living
