Brown, George F

Brown, George F.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in New Jersey, March 13, 1809. He was converted at sixteen years of age, licensed to preach in 1828, and joined the Philadelphia Conference in 1829. He was a pastor nineteen years, a presiding elder fourteen years, chaplain of New Jersey state prison two years, and supernumerary eighteen years. In 1848, 1852, 1856, and 1860, he was a delegate to the General Conference. He died of paralysis, in Cincinnati, March 20, 1881. He was a man of excellent mind, fervent piety, and intense loyalty to the Church and his Master. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1882, page 80.