Brown, George (5)

a Methodist Protestant minister, was born in West Pennsylvania, January 29, 1792. He was converted in 1813, began the Methodist Episcopal itinerant life in 1815, and after one year under the presiding elder, entered the Baltimore Conference, which then included West Pennsylvania. In 1825 he became a member of the Pittsburgh Conference, and so continued, filling some of its principal stations, and serving four years as presiding elder, until 1829, when he took a prominent part in the organization of the Methodist Protestant Church, and commenced his first pastorate in that body in the same year. In 1831 Mr. Brown was elected president of his Conference, and served in this relation three years. In 1838 he was placed in charge of the Ohio Circuit, in 1839 elected president of his Conference, in 1840 stationed at Pittsburgh, in 1842 again elected president in 1845 appointed Conference missionary, in 1846 again president, and thus continued to vibrate between the presidency and pastoral office until 1860, when he was elected editor of the Western Methodist Protestant at Springfield, Ohio, in which office he served two years, producing many useful theological and ecclesiastical articles. He then took a superannuated relation at his home in Springfield, Where he died, October 25, 1871. Mr. Brown was a prodigious worker, a finely educated man, and a devoted Christian. After retiring from the editorial service, he published his Recollections of Itinerant Life (8vo, 456 pages), and an autobiography of great interest, full of incident, and details of travel, Gospel labors, and experiences. See Bassett, Hist. of the Meth. Prot. Church, page 369.