Brown, Jonathan (4)
Brown, Jonathan (1)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born near Stanhope, in Weardale, about 1750. He was converted at the age of twenty-two, and was admitted into the Connection in 1778. His first field was the Isle of Man; he labored six years in Ireland, and the rest of his ministerial life was. spent in the northern part of England. He became a supernumerary in 1817, and died at Hull, August 2, 1825. He labored on twenty-four circuits, on seventeen of which he gathered in many new members. He was diligent, mightily in earnest, and frequently spent whole nights in prayer. See Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1826, page 505; Minutes of the British Conference, 1826.
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Brown, Jonathan (2)
a Presbyterian minister, was born at Pittsfield, N.H., in 1757. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1789; was ordained and installed as minister of the East parish in Londonderry in 1795; was dismissed at his own request in September 1804; and died in the place where he had exercised his ministry, in February 1838. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 4:411.
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Brown, Jonathan (3)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Weardale, September 26, 1785. He was converted at the age of sixteen, and in 1805 was appointed to the Inverness circuit. He labored in the itinerancy for thirteen years, one of his circuits being Keighley, in 1808, and his last, Salford. In 1818 he became a supernumerary, and settled in Bury. He died December 14, 1819. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1820; Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1820, page 561 sq.
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Brown, Jonathan (4)
a Baptist minister, was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts, January 21, 1790. His early life was spent in hard struggles with poverty. At the age of twenty-eight he united with the Church, and soon yielded to a conviction that it was his duty to preach the Gospel. About 1827 he moved to Adams County, Illinois, and was ordained in 1851. He was pastor of the churches in Centreville and Hodley Creek, in Brown County. He found great delight in preaching as an evangelist among feeble churches and destitute neighborhoods, for which service he neither asked nor received compensation. In 1856 he removed to Quincy, where he died, March 25, 1875. See Minutes of Illinois Anniversaries, 1875, pages 9, 10. (J.C.S.)