Brown, Jonathan (4)

a Baptist minister, was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts, January 21, 1790. His early life was spent in hard struggles with poverty. At the age of twenty-eight he united with the Church, and soon yielded to a conviction that it was his duty to preach the Gospel. About 1827 he moved to Adams County, Illinois, and was ordained in 1851. He was pastor of the churches in Centreville and Hodley Creek, in Brown County. He found great delight in preaching as an evangelist among feeble churches and destitute neighborhoods, for which service he neither asked nor received compensation. In 1856 he removed to Quincy, where he died, March 25, 1875. See Minutes of Illinois Anniversaries, 1875, pages 9, 10. (J.C.S.)