Biographical data on William Reynolds Brown, 1874 December 10 / by John A. Ford.

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Biographical data on William Reynolds Brown, 1874 December 10 / by John A. Ford.

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Handwritten biographical data on William Reynolds Brown, a Minnesota carpenter and farmer. In 1841, Brown and a group of missionaries moved to the Red Rock Mission, a Methodist mission house near St. Paul, Minnesota. Brown later settled in Newport, Minnesota.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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William Reynolds Brown was born in March 8, 1816, in Virginia. In 1833 he was apprenticed to a carpenter in Mount Carmel, Illinois, where he remained until April 1841. He and Charles T. Cavileer then traveled to St. Louis, where they joined Benjamin T. Kavanaugh, superintendent of Methodist missions to the Dakota and Ojibwe in Minnesota, on a trip to that state. Kavanaugh had promised Brown a year's carpentry work at the mission. On May 18, 1841, they arrived at Red Rock, located on...

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The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the U.S. in 1784. The first general conference was held in 1792 and the constitution was adopted in 1900. In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church united to form the Methodist Church (U.S.). From the description of Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455885 From the guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945, (The New ...