Brown, William F

Brown, William F.

a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in the northern part of England in 1818. He emigrated to New York city early in life; experienced religion there, and several years later moved to Mississippi, where he was licensed to preach in 1840, and in the same year entered the Mississippi Conference. On the division of that Conference in 1846 he became a member of the Louisiana Conference, and in it toiled zealously until his death, August 30, 1848. Mr. Brown was a conscientious, irreproachable Christian. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1849, page 198.