Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Brown, Richard (3) a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Friendship, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, May 30, 1799. He experienced conversion when about nineteen, and was doing a flourishing mercantile business when he entered the itinerancy in 1827. His labors were confined to the Baltimore and East Baltimore Conferences. He died at his home in … Continue reading “Brown, Richard (3)”

Brown, Philip P a Baptist minister, was born at Bennington,Vermont, September 17, 1790. He was ordained October 17, 1821, as pastor of the Church at Smithfield, N.Y., where he remained for more than eight years. His second pastorate was with the Church at Augusta, Oneida County, where he had a most fruitful ministry for fifteen … Continue reading “Brown, Philip P”

Brown, Peter (1) an. Irishman, was bishop of Cork and Ross, to which sees he was promoted in 1709, and died August 25, 1735. He left many works, among them A Reply to the Infidel Toland (Dublin, 1697, 8vo): On the Custom of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead, in reply to a divine … Continue reading “Brown, Peter (2)”

Brown, Paul R a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Cornwall, N.Y., March 4, 1801. He was converted in early life. In 1828 he entered the New York Conference, and received for his first field of labor Delaware Circuit, having thirty-three appointments, and requiring four weeks’ travel of two hundred and fifty miles to visit … Continue reading “Brown, Paul R”

Brown, Orsemus P a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1809. He was converted in 1830, licensed to preach in 1838, and in 1842 entered the Erie Conference. In 1855 he was transferred to the Wisconsin Conference, and died near Janesville, January 24, 1857. Mr. Brown was true to his calling, indefatigable in labors, faithful … Continue reading “Brown, Orsemus P”

Brown, Oliver Eldridge a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Huntington, L.I., in 1813. He received a careful religious training from his devout widowed mother, experienced religion at the age of seventeen, graduated at Wesleyan University in 1839, and in 1844 entered the New York Conference, in the active ranks of which he continued until … Continue reading “Brown, Oliver Eldridge”

Brown, Obadiah B a Baptist minister, was born in Newark, N.J., July 20, 1779. He was licensed in 1806, and first preached at Salem. In February 1807, he removed to Washington city, and in May following was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church there. During his stay in Washington he became chief … Continue reading “Brown, Obadiah B”

Brown, Nicholas, Hon an eminent merchant and philanthropist, was born in Providence, R.I., April 4, 1769. He was descended from Mr. Chad Brown, a companion of Roger Williams. At thirteen years of age he entered what was then Rhode Island College, graduated in 1786, and at once entered upon a mercantile career. Through a long … Continue reading “Brown, Nicholas, Hon”

Brown, Nehemiah a Presbyterian minister, was born at Canterbury, Connecticut, June 11, 1791. After leaving college he studied divinity. He was for a time principal of Clinton Academy, in East Hampton, L.I. He was ordained and installed eighth pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Huntington, October 18, 1824. In consequence of failing health he … Continue reading “Brown, Nehemiah”

Brown, Mrs. Phoebe Hinsdale (her maiden name), a poetess, was born at Canaan, N.Y., January 1, 1773. She had no early education; married a painter of Ellington, Connecticut; lived a humble and painful, but Christian life, and died at Marshall, Illinois. October 10, 1861. Among her hymns the most noted is “I love to steal … Continue reading “Brown, Mrs. Phoebe Hinsdale”