Brown, Charles Smith

Brown, Charles Smith a Universalist minister, was born in Oneida County, N.Y., March 20, 1804. He joined the Methodists at the age of fourteen; received a private theological training for the Universalist ministry, and in 1832 was ordained, and entered upon his work at South Oxford. He afterwards removed to Upper Lisle; then spent a few years in Pennsylvania; then in Oneida and Cortland counties, N.Y.; and finally settled at Cambridge, Illinois, where he died, in May 1870. Mr. Brown was a good, but not brilliant, preacher, and an exemplary Christian. See Universalist Register, 1871, page 110.