History of Fort Gaines, (Clay County) Georgia United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of John Brown

John Brown, clergyman, was born in Ireland June 15, 1763. At an early age he was brought by his parents to America, and settled in South Carolina. His early boyhood being spent in farm work, his education was very meagre, and at the age of sixteen he volunteered in the army. He served bravely throughout the revolutionary war, when, after a course in theology, he began preaching, taking charge of the church in the Waxhaw settlement in 1788. Here he preached for twenty-one years, when he resigned to accept the chair of logic and moral philosophy in the University of South Carolina. In 1811 he was elected to the presidency of the University of Georgia, where he remained for five years. In 1816 he assumed pastoral charge of a church in Hancock county, Ga. He died at Fort Gaines, Ga., Dec. 11, 1842.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor