Brousson, Claude, a French Protestant advocate and martyr, born at Nismes 1647. In his house at Toulouse the deputies of the Protestant churches as- sembled in Ills:!, when it was resolved that the relig- ious meetings of the Protestants should be continued after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Brousson retired to Geneva and Lausanne, and, having been or- dained, preached from place to place in France, Hol- land, and Germany. His labors led finally to the es- tablishment of the "Churches of the Desert." See Court, Anthony. Being arrested at (Heron in 1698, he was broken on the wheel at Montpellier. He left, among other writings, L'etat des Rtfbrmes di France (Switzerland, 1684; Hague, 1665) : — Lettres an cJergi de France: — Lettres des protestans dt Frana ii tousles autres protestans <l< V Europe (Berlin, 1688) : — Relation sommaire des m* rvtUles </>" l>i< n fait < n Frana dans lea Cevennes (1694, 8vo). See Peyrat, Hist, des Pasteurs de desert (Paris, 1842, 2 vols.'); Weiss, liistmre des Refu- gies Protestants. — Hoofer, Biog. Generate, v, 538.
Brow (n^"2, me'tsach, Isa. xlviii, 4, the forehead,
as elsewhere rendered ; o<f>pvg, the edge of a hill, Luke iv, 29). See Eye.
Brown (DIM, chum, literally scorched), i. e. black, the term applied to dark-colored sheep in a flock (Gen. xxx, 32 40). See Color.
Brown, Alexander Blaine, D.D., a Presby- terian minister, sun of the Rev. Matthew Brown, 1 >.!>., was limn Aug. 1, 1808, at Washington, Pa., and grad- uated at Jefferson College in 1825. He studied theol- ogy at Alleghany, and was licensed to preach in Octo- ber, 1831. After spending some time as a missionary in Virginia, he became pastor at Birmingham, near
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Pittsburgh, in 1833 ; he afterward served the churches in Niles, Michigan, and Portsmouth, Ohio, till 1841, when he became professor of Belles-Lettres in Jefferson College. In October , 1847, he became president of the college, and served with great fidelity and success un- til 1856, when ill health compelled him to resign. He died at Centre, September 8, 1863. As a teacher he was accurate, instructive, and systematic. As a preach- er he was always edifying, and he rose occasionally to the highest eloquence. — Wilson, Presbyterian Almanac, 1861, p. 98.
Brown, Francis, D.D., was born at Chester, N. II., Jan. 11, 1784. He graduated at Dartmouth Col- lege 1806, and a year after his graduation became tu- tor in the college, where he remained till 1809. He was ordained pastor in North Yarmouth, Me., in 1810. In 1815 he was elected president of Dartmouth Col- lege, and remained in this position until his death, July 27, 1820. He was made D.D. 1819 by Hamilton ami Williams colleges. He published Calvin and Cal- vinism, defended against certain injurious Representations contained in a Pamphlet entitled ' ' A Sketch of the Life and Doctrine of the celebrated John Calvin" (1815) ; .4 R<ply to the Rev. Martin Ruter's Letter relating to Calvin and Calvinism (1815); and several occasional sermons. — Sprague, Annals, ii, 516.
Brown, Isaac V., D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Somerset Co., N. J., Nov. 4, 1784 ; gradu- ated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, and studied theology with Dr. Woodhull, of Freehold ; was ordained by the New Brunswick Presbytery as pastor at Lawrence- ville, N. J., where he established the now celebrated Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial Boarding- school. He remained at its head until 1833, when he removed to Mount Holhy. He passed the remainder of his life in that vicinity, preaching, but especially devoted to literary labors. He died April 19, 1861. He was one of the founders of the American Coloniza- tion Society, and labored for it earnestly. He pub- lished Life of Robert Finley, D.D., a work on The Uni- ty of the Human Race, and A Historical Vindication of the Abrogation of the Plan of Union by the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. — Wilson, Presbyterian Almanac, 1862.
Brown, James Caldwell, D.D., a minister of the Presbyterian Church (O. S.), was born at St. Clairs- ville, Ohio. In his 16th year he entered Jefferson Col- lege, Pa., as a freshman, and while there he united with the Church. From Jefferson College he passed to the Western Theological Seminary at Alleghany, Pa., where he remained two years, and finally graduated at the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Harmony, S. C. He went in 1839 to Indiana, to do missionary work in the wild counties lying along the southern end of Lake Michigan. He settled at Valparaiso, Por- ter County, where he preached for twenty-one years, and built up the largest Presbyterian Church in North- ern Indiana. In fact, nearly every Presbj'terian Church within a circuit of thirty miles was organized by him. In 1859 he received the decree of D.D. si- multaneously from Jefferson and Hanover colleges. In 1860 he resigned his charge in Valparaiso to be- come tlie general agent of the Theological Seminary of the Northwest at Chicago, Illinois. Before resign- ing his charge, he initiated measures which resulted in the establishment of a Presbyterian institution. Tl atbreak of the rebellion hindered him from ac- complishing any thing as general agent of the Theo- [ogica] Seminary. In the winter of 1861 he preached as n BUpply to the. church in South Bend, Ind., and while there In' was elected chaplain of the 48th Indi- ana Volunteers. He joined his regiment in May, 1862, and was with it in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. Being attacked with camp diarrhoea, he was ordered home to recruit his health, but was only able to reach