Paducah, Ky., where he died July 14, 1862.— Wilson, Presbyterian Almanac, vol. v, 1863.
Brown, James Moore, D.D., a clergyman of the Old School Presbyterian Church, was born in the Valley of Virginia, Sept. 13, 1799. He was educated at Washington College, Lexington, Va., where he also studied theology under Dr. Geo. A. Baxter. He was licensed by Lexington Presbytery at Mossy Creek Church, Rockingham County, Va., April 13, 1824. On Sept. 30, 1826, he was ordained and installed pastor over the churches of Gerardstown, Tuscarora, and Falling Waters, in Berkeley County, Va., within the bounds of Westchester Presbytery. The bounds of his congregation extended about thirty miles along the base of North Mountain, and there he labored, like an apostle, faithfully and successfully, exploring and establishing preaching places in destitute places around him, until, in 1835, at the earnest solicitation of the synods of Virginia and North Carolina, he undertook an agency for the cause of missions, and removed to Prince Edward County as a more central location for his work. In April, 1837, he received and accepted a call to the church of Kanawha, West Virginia, where he labored for twenty-five years. On a journey home from Frankfort, Va., where he had attended the death- bed of his daughter, he was taken sick at Lewisburg, and there died, June 8, 1862. — Wilson, Presbyterian Almanac, 1863.
Brown, John, D.D., Vicar of Newcastle, born in Northumberland 1715, and educated at Cambridge, was made rector of Great Horkeseley, Essex, 1715, and vicar of St. Nicholas, Newcastle, 1758. He commit- ted suicide, in a fit of insanity, 1766. He was an in- genious writer, of more talent than learning. He wrote An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (Lond. 1757-58, 2 vols. 8vo), which was very popular ; Sermons on Various Subjects (Lond. 1764, 8vo); Essays on Shaftesbury's Characteristics (Lond. 1784, 5th ed.) ; and other minor works.
Brown, John, of Haddington, was born at Ker- poo, Perthshire, Scotland, 1722. His early education was neglected, and he taught school to support him- self during his preparatory studies. In the Burgher (q. v.) schism in the Secession Church he joined the moderate party ; and, after studying under Ebenezer Erskine, he was licensed in 1750. His parochial du- ties being limited, he adopted a plan of daily study to which he kept rigidly through life. By patient in- dustry he became acquainted with the Oriental lan- guages, as well as the classical and modern : but he applied all his learning to divinity and Biblical litera- ture. In 1768 he became professor of divinity to the Associate Synod, and held the office till his death in 1787. His chief works are Dictionary of the Bible (Lond. 1769, 2 vols. 8vo ; often reprinted) -.—Self-inter- preting Bible (Lond. 4to ; often reprinted) : — Compen- dious history of the British Churches (Edinb. 1823, new ed. 2 vols. 8vo) : — Concordance to Scripti/re (Lond. 1816, 18mo) : — Harmony of Prophecies (Lond. 1800, 12mo, new ed.) ; besides minor writings. — Jamieson, Relig. Biog. p. 71 ; Allibone, Diet, of Authors, i, 257.
Brown, John, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Co. Antrim, Ireland, June 16, 1763. His fa- ther emigrated to South Carolina, and the son's early education was limited. At 16 he entered the Revolu- tionary army as a volunteer. After the war he stud- ied theology, and in 1783 was licensed to preach, and became pastor of Waxhaw Church, S. C. In 1809 he was appointed professor of Moral Philosophy in the College of S. C, and in 1811 president of the Univer- sity of Georgia. He was made D.D. at Princeton 1811. His services in the university were faithfully discharged for many years, and on retiring he devoted himself again to pastoral work in Georgia. He died Dec. 11, 1842.— Sprague, Annals, iii, 536.
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Reformed Church, was born near Bremen, July 21st, 1771. He was early pious, and from boyhood had a strong desire to go to America, and emigrated in 1797. He studied theology with Rev. Philip Stoeck, in Cham- bersburg, Penn., was licensed by the Synod of the German Reformed Church in 1800, and ordained in 1803. He took charge of long-neglected and scattered congregations in the Valley of Virginia. 1 1 is labors extended over a wide field, including six counties, and in the earlier part of his ministry he travelled to his appointments on foot, staff in hand. Though often tempted by calls from abroad, he labored in the same field — having been relieved of parts of it from time to time by other ministers coming to his assistance — up to the time of his death, Jan. 26th, 1850, almost half a century. In 1818 he published, in the German lan- guage, a volume of 400 pages, being a kind of Pastoral Address to the Germans of Virginia, which exerted a happy influence on the minds and hearts of those for whose good it was intended. Dr. Brown was possess- ed of fine talents, earnestly pious, mild, affectionate, and patriarchal in his spirit, widely useful and greatly beloved wherever he was known. He preached only in the German language.
Brown, John, D.D. (grandson of Brown of Had- dington), one of the most eminent of modern Scottish divines, was born in 1783 at Whitburn, Scotland, and educated in literature and theology in the " Secession School." Soon after he was licensed as a probationer, and he received a call from the Burgher congregation at Biggar, to the pastoral charge of which he was or- dained in 1806. In 1821 he became pastor of the Uni- ted Secession Church, Rose Street, Edinburgh, and, on the death of Dr. James Hall, he succeeded that min- ister as pastor of Broughton Place Church, Edinburgh. The Burgher and Anti-burgher Seceders having uni- ted in 1820 under the name of the United Associate Synod, Dr. Brown was chosen one of their professors of divinity in 1835. The body to which he belonged was merged in 1849 in the United Presbyterian Church (q. v.). He held his post as professor, with the pastoral charge of the United Presbyterian Church, Broughton Place, Edinburgh, till his death, Oct. 13th, 1857. Dr. Brown was greatly respected and loved as an eminent pulpit orator, and his sterling Christian character and amiable and warm piety commended him to the esteem and affection of all the people of God who knew him, however separated among men by different names. "What Dr. Chalmers was in the Free Church, what Dr. Wardlaw was among Congregationalists, what Dr. Bunting was among Wesleyans, that was Dr. Brown among United Presbyterians. All these great men belonged, in one sense, specially to their respective denominations, but in another and far higher sense they belonged to the Christian world, and were equal- ly esteemed and beloved by Christians of all denomi- nations. He was a very voluminous writer, as he was in the habit of publishing his Divinity Lectures, and also many of his congregational lectures. In theology he is probably to be classed with moderate Calvinista or Baxterians", and this type of doctrine prevails in the United Presbyterian Church. His writings include Tlie Law of Christ respecting Civil Obedience (Lond. is;:;). 3d ed. 8vo) : — Expository Lectures on 1 Pet( r (Ed- inl). 2d ed. 1849, 2 vols. 8vo ; N. Y. 8vo) :— Discourses and Sayings of our Lord Jesus Christ (Edinb. 1850, 3 vols. 8vo; N. Y. 1854, 2 vols. 8vo) r — Exposition of Lord's Prayer (Lond. 1850, 8vo) -.—Sufferings and Glo- ries of Messiah (N. Y. 8vo, 1855), besides a number of practical treatises.— Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. p. 454; Meth. Qu. Rev. 1854, p. 464 ; .\ . Brit. i:< o. Aug. I860.