J. Randall Brown

John Randall Brown (October 28, 1851 - July 3, 1926) was an American psychical demonstrator who was active from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century, his act sometimes credited as being the first mind-reader entertainment of its kind and forerunner to later mentalism. George M. Beard attributed Brown's mind-reading ability to an interpretation of involuntary muscular tensions and relaxations, going as far as to say Brown was to this muscle reading what Mesmer was to trance induction.