History of Orrville, (Wayne County) Ohio United States of America

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The Biography of William Montgomery Brown

William Montgomery Brown, fifth bishop of Arkansas and 186th in succession in the American episcopate, was born near Orrville, Wayne county, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1855; son of Joseph Morrison and Lucina (Casey) Brown. He was educated at Cleveland, Ohio, Faribault, Minn., and Gaulbier, Ohio, and was ordained deacon, June 17, 1883, and priest May 22, 1884. He had charge of Grace church, Galion, Ohio, 1883-'91, and also established and built up seven adjacent missions and became in 1891 general missionary and archdeacon of the diocese of Ohio. He was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Arkansas, June 24, 1898, by Bishops McLaren, Whitehead, Vincent, Atwill, Seymour, Leonard, Hale and White, and on the death of Bishop Pierce, Sept. 5, 1899, succeeded to the bishopric. He received the degree of D.D. from Kenyon college and from the University of the South in 1898. He is the author of "the Church for Americans."

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