Brown, Samuel (6)
Brown, Samuel (1)
a Presbyterian minister was born in Bedford County, Virginia, November 18, 1766. He was educated at Washington College; was licensed by the Hanover Presbytery in April 1793, and labored as a missionary in Eastern Virginia until 1796, at which time he accepted a call to become the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of New Providence. He here spent the remainder of his life as a faithful and zealous minister, and died in October 1818. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 3:74.
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Brown, Samuel (2)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born in 1787 in Cheshire. He was converted in 1807; became a local preacher in 1809; was received by the Conference in 1816; labored in Sierra Leone from 1816 to 1819; in Nevis and Antigua, W.I., from 1819 to 1823; and in England from 1823 to 1851, when failing health compelled him to retire from the full work. In 1858 he returned, as a supernumerary, to the scene of his early labors in Sierra Leone, where he spent three useful years. He died in Liverpool, England, October 5, 1861. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1862, page 12.
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Brown, Samuel (3)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Taunton in 1792. He was converted when about twenty years old, at Bristol, whither he had removed and become engaged in a banking establishment. Mr. Brown’s first and only charge was at Ashton, near Bristol, where he was ordained January 28, 1827, and died June 16,1862. He was eminent for his piety, charity, and soundness in faith. Seer (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1863, page 213.
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Brown, Samuel (4)
an English Congregational minister, was a descendant of one of the oldest Nonconformist families in the county of Cumberland. He was destined by his friends for mercantile life, but after his conversion at the age of twenty, he desired to become a missionary. He was, however, persuaded to study for the ministry at home, and spent four years at Highbury in that preparation. By invitation of the Irish Evangelical Society he took charge of the small Independent congregation at Tralee, Ireland, in December 1843. He labored with true missionary zeal in this field until declining health forced him to relinquish his work. He returned to England, and died June 23, 1847. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1848, page 214.
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Brown, Samuel (5)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Monmouth County, N.J., May 12, 1806. He was early brought under the influence of the Friends, his parents probably being members of that society, which accounts for his life-long aversion to formality and display in religious services. He joined the Methodists in his fifteenth year; was licensed to preach in early manhood, and in 1841 entered the Ohio Conference, On the division of that conference in 1852 he became a member of the Cincinnati Conference, in which he continued to the close of his life. In 1868 he became superannuated, and settled on his farm in Miami County, where he remained until his death, September 23, 1876. Mr. Brown’s life was exemplary and abundantly successful. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1877, page 89.
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Brown, Samuel (6)
an English Wesleyan Methodist minister, was born at Newcastle-under- Lyme, January 8, 1811. He was converted at the age of seventeen, began business in Guernsey, and entered the ministry in 1835; was very successful in the conversion of sinners; labored for souls night and day; rested for three years, 1866-69; finally retired in 1877; settled at Swaffham, and died February 19, 1879. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1879, page 19.