Brown, T J

Brown, T. J.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in South Carolina in 1791. He was left an orphan at the age of seven, but received the guardianship of a devout class-leader, and gave his heart to God in 1809. He was licensed to preach in 1819, and in 1822 entered the Tennessee Conference. In 1830 he located, and visited Indiana; in 1831 entered the Holston Conference; in 1832 was transferred to the Illinois Conference; and in 1833, on the formation of the Indiana Conference, became a member of it, and labored as health permitted to the close of his life, June 8, 1860. Mr. Brown was deeply devoted to the Church, and highly revered by all who knew him. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1860, page 355.