a Methodist Episcopal minister, son of Reverend Nathaniel Brown, was born in Fairview, Indiana, in 1850. He joined the Church in 1859; was converted at his father’s family altar a few years later; received license to exhort in 1869, to preach in 1870; and in the same year entered the North Indiana Conference. In 1872 he entered the North-western University to complete his education, but had studied but a short time when failing health obliged him to return home. He continued to preach until prostrated with consumption, of which he died, September 21, 1873. Mr. Brown was. possessed of a clear and logical mind, studious in habit, earnest as a speaker, warm in his attachments, cheerful in disposition, and devoted to his calling. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874. page 53.<\/p>\n
Brown, James Willis a Methodist Episcopal minister, son of Reverend Nathaniel Brown, was born in Fairview, Indiana, in 1850. He joined the Church in 1859; was converted at his father’s family altar a few years later; received license to exhort in 1869, to preach in 1870; and in the same year entered the North Indiana … Continue reading “Brown, James Willis”<\/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-29790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790","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=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}