J. Randall Brown
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| Alias(es) | The White Mahatma, the Original Mind Reader |
| Born | 28 October 1851 St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri |
| Died | 3 July 1926 (74) Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minnesota |
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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.
Press Coverage
1870s-1890s
- "Prof. J. Randall Brown, the Mind Reader.", Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): 4, 4 Apr. 1876, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58304793/
- "MIND READING. The Mental Powers of Mr. J. Randall Brown Tested at a Private Reception.", Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY): 4, 16 May 1877, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/541761923/
- "AN ASTOUNDED AUDIENCE. Brown, the Mind Reader, Gives a Mysterious Performance. The Secret Thoughts of Well-Known Citizens Seemingly Determined With Accuracy — Spiritualism Exposed.", St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO): 3, 15 May 1882, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/570507134/
- "A MIND READER. Some of the Wonderful Things He Can Do — The Seemingly Supernatural Power He Manifests — How Thought, Like Electrical Fluid, Passed From One's Mind to His — What He Thinks About It Himself.", Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): 4, 2 Dec. 1886, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/547658783/
1900s-1920s
- "THE WHITE MAHATMA, AN ADEPT IN OCCULT SCIENCE", Fargo Forum and Daily Republican (Fargo, ND): 3, 23 Apr. 1904, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042224/1904-04-23/ed-1/seq-3/
- "EXPOSE OF THE FAYS. J. Randall Brown, Noted Mind Reader, to Appear Here.", Daily Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT): 6, 27 Feb. 1905, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020358/1905-02-27/ed-1/seq-6/
Reading
- Burlingame, H. J. (1891), "Mind-Readers and Their Tricks", Leaves from Conjurers' Scrapbooks: Or, Modern Magicians and Their Works, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., p. 108-127, https://archive.org/details/leavesfromconjur01burl/page/108/mode/2up
Notes
- Brown based part of his act on the debunking of other mediums, particularly of the Spiritualist persuasion, claiming his was the only genuine power.