1836 - 1909

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• Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	26 Nov 1836	Norwich,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Mar 1909	Providence,Providence Co.,Rhode Island
  Person ID	I42401	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Denison Ledyard BROWN, b. 9 May 1811, No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Lucy M. ADAMS, b. 14 Jun 1808, Plainfield,Windham Co.,Connecticut
  Family ID	F18545	Group Sheet
  Family	Hattie Almeda MOTT, b. 19 Nov 1843, Lebanon,New London,Connecticut
  Married	12 Mar 1867	Norwich,New London,Connecticut
  Children	1. Mabel Hattie BROWN, b. 13 May 1868, Staffordville,Connecticut   2. Wilbur Denison BROWN, b. 15 Jun 1870, East Gastonbury,Hartford Co.,Connecticut   3. Herbert Morgan BROWN, b. 1 Dec 1875, Dighton,Massachusetts
  Family ID	F18565	Group Sheet

• Notes

  BROWN GENEALOGY, VOL. II, by Cyrus Henry Brown, Westerly, RI, Boston, TheEverett Press, 1915, page 222. Being laft an orphan at the age of seven months, he was adopted byhis mother's sister, Sally Adams, who afterward married Duncan McAllesterof Norwich. In the year 1850 he, with his foster parents, removed toColchester, Conn., where he continued to reside until the year 1864, hissummers being spent on the Land farm, and his winters in the HaywardRubber Works in Colchester, with the exception of one winter when hetaught the Chestnut Hill District School. He enlisted as a private in Co. H, 21st Conn. Vol. Infantry, Aug. 8,1862; was promoted to 2d Lieutenant of the same company Sept. 5, 1862,being obligated to resign on account of physical disabilities incurredwhile in camp at Arlington Heights, Va., and from which disabilities henever fully recovered. He was converted at Willimantic Camp-meeting in1860, and joined the church at Colchester. The church gave him license toexhort, in 1861, and to preach, in 1863. In 1864, having entered theministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he removed from Colchesterand became the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Square Pond,now Diamond Lake, Conn. In the spring of 1865 he joined the New EnglandSouthern Conference [then called the Providence Conference] and served asthe pastor of the following churches; 1865-67, East Thompson; 1868-69,Staffordville; 1870-71, East Glastonbury; 1872, Greenville; 1873-74,Wapping [all of these churches were located in Connecticut]; 1875-78,Dighton, Mass.; 1877-79, Warehouse Phont, Conn.; 1880, Attawaughan,Conn.; 1881-1882, Mystic, Conn. [now known as Old Mystic]; 1883-84, NorthGrosvenordale, Conn.; 1885, Jewett City, Conn.; 1886, Hockanum, Conn.;1887-89, Nantasket, Mass.; 1890, Arnold's Mill, RI; 1891, Hope, RI;1892-3, Wickford, RI. In 1894, because of failing health, he took a superannuated relationand removed to Providence, in which city he lived until his death. From1894 to 1896 he supplied the Wanskuck Church, and largely through hisefforts a neat and commodious chapel was erected. He served as Chaplainof the GAR Post at Wickford, and as Chaplain and Adjutant of Slocum Postof Providence. For seven years he was connected with the Evening Telegramas Grand-Army correspondent. He also occupied for sever years a positionof trust in the Conference as Treasurer of Conference Claimants' Fund. Henever forgot his spiritual birthplace, Willimantic Camp-ground, and forseveral years rendered efficient services as a member of the executivecommittee, at the same time reporting for the Hartford Courant duringcamp-meetings week. As a preacher he was scriptural, methodical, earnest,and instructive. He was a student of the Bible, and most hartillybelieved and taught what he found therein. Such a preacher could not failto interest his hearers and to build up his churches.