Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown was born on March 25, 1906, in Brooklyn to Rev. Arthur B. and Sally Bruce Kinsolving. When she was six months old her family moved to Baltimore where her father took the position of rector at Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church. (Eventually Rev. Kinsolving became Bishop of Baltimore). In 1962, she was given an L.H.D degree from Brown University. In 1965 she lectured on military history at the University of California. Anne Brown died at her home "Harbor Court" in Newport, RI, on November 21, 1985.