John M. Brown
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John M. Brown [1]
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Mayfield, N.Y., August 12, 1835. He removed to Steuben County, Indiana, about 1853; served as a soldier in the Federal army over three years; in 1870 began preaching, and at the close of that year entered the North Indiana Conference, wherein he labored with zeal and fidelity until his sudden death, January 18, 1878. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, page 53.