Simeon Brown
Simeon Brown [1]
a Congregational minister. was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1808. From the time of his conversion, in his seventeenth year, his thoughts turned towar tow s the ministry. He entered Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1829; after a period of theological study, was licensed by the Presbytery of Richland, Ohio; and in June 1835, was ordained and took charge of the Church in Harmony. Having labored here two years and a half, he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Frederickstown, where he remained six years. In 1844 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Zanesville; and after six years of service he spent two years as the agent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, residing meanwhile at Oxford. Then, for several years, he was stated supply of the Church at Pleasant Ridge, near Cincinnatti. While pastor at Frederickstown, Mr. Brown established a religious monthly, called the Calvinistic Monitor.
After eight numbers were issued it became, the Family Monitor, Reverend John A. Dunlap being associated with him in the editorship; and about a year later the name was again changed to The Presbyterian of the West, when Mr. Brown ceased to act as editor. In 1853 Reverend Willis Lord, D.D., and he became editors of the same paper, which was then published in Cincinnati, and for about eighteen months he fulfilled this duty in addition to his pastoral work. In 1857 he ministered to the Congregational Church at Lebanon, and organized the Congregational Church of Waynesville. From 1857 to 1863 he was, for the most part, in the employ of the Home Missionary Society, in southern and middle Ohio. He assumed charge of the Church at Ottumwa, Iowa, in November 1864, and at the end of his first year's pastorate this congregation dispensed with further missionary aid, and more than doubled its membership in two years. A controversy with some members of the Presbytery to which he belonged, in regard to the nature and extent of the Atonement, led him ultimately to the Congregational Church. He died in Ottumwa, February 16, 1867. He was an early and efficient advocate of the temperance reform. See Cong. Quarterly, 1868, page 47.
