Brown, Richard (3)

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Friendship, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, May 30, 1799. He experienced conversion when about nineteen, and was doing a flourishing mercantile business when he entered the itinerancy in 1827. His labors were confined to the Baltimore and East Baltimore Conferences. He died at his home in Howard County, Maryland, August 5, 1859. Mr. Brown's ministry was solid, instructing, and soul- converting. He excelled as a manager of camp-meetings; was highly esteemed for his genial spirit, sincerity, and steadfastness. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1860, page 21.