Brown, Joseph (6)

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, September 24, 1809. He was licensed by Lexington Presbytery, October 17, 1835; and ordained by the same at Augusta Church, Oct. 28, 1836. He graduated at Washington College in 1830, after which he spent two years in teaching; entered Princeton Seminary in 1832, and graduated in 1835. He accepted calls, September 7, 1837, from the two churches Spring Creek and Oak Grove, and was installed as their pastor by the Presbytery of Greenbrier. Here he labored until 1847. This was his first and only pastorate. Most of his ministerial work was of a missionary character, usually in frontier settlements and among the colored population. He spent six years in preaching to the colored people in Mississippi. He taught in Little Levels Academy and Lewisburg Academy, and as assistant in a parochial school, Memphis, Tennessee; a grammar-school near Natchez, Mississippi; and as principal of Locust-lawn School for Females. From 1868 to 1879 he resided in Florida at Clearwater Harbor, where he gradually gathered, watched over, and supplied the Andrews Memorial Church. He, in 1879, removed to Bryan, Texas, where he died, February 14, 1880. Mr. Brown was a devout, self-sacrificing man, clear in his convictions and a thorough-going Presbyterian. See Necrological Report of Princeton Theol. Seminary, 1880, page 19.