a Baptist minister, was born at New London, Connecticut, November 28, 1807. He graduated at Madison University, N.Y., in 1838; was ordained immediately afterwards in Hudson; and began to preach as a missionary in Franklin, Missouri. In consequence of his outspoken views on the subject of slavery, after a single year of service, he resigned; and, after supplying a pulpit at St. Louis for six months, removed to Quincy, Illinois, where he remained five years. He filled an engagement at Galena for three months, and then accepted a call to Lonsdale, R.I. His other pastorates were at Port Richmond, Pennsylvania; Beverly, N.J.; Waabash, Ind.; Bath and Westmoreland, N.Y.; and Oxford, Illinois. In consequence of ill-health he retired from the pastorate, and continued his ministerial work only as a supply in places in Illinois. He died in Galva, January 16, 1881. See Chicago Standard, February 3 1881; Minutes of Illinois Anniversaries, 1881, page 11. (J.C.S.)<\/p>\n
Brown, Edwin C a Baptist minister, was born at New London, Connecticut, November 28, 1807. He graduated at Madison University, N.Y., in 1838; was ordained immediately afterwards in Hudson; and began to preach as a missionary in Franklin, Missouri. In consequence of his outspoken views on the subject of slavery, after a single year of … Continue reading “Brown, Edwin C”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}