REV. WILLIAM R. BROWN.

EV. WILLIAM R. BROWN lived in Randolph county, North Carolina. At the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Antioch church in Chatham county, in 1864, he was recommended by the Educational committee for licensure. The following year the Deep River Conference was organized, of which he became a member. In 1870, at the Conference at Oldham's Grove in Moore county, he served on the committees on Education, Ordination and Examination of candidates, and was secretary of the Conference. At the Conference at Shiloh in 1871, he delivered the annual address before the body, and was appointed chairman of the committee on education. In 1872, he was chosen president of the Conference at Union Grove in Randolph county; and in 1873, at the Conference at Parks' Cross Roads, he was chosen assistant secretary, and was elected a fraternal messenger to the North Carolina and Virginia Conference and also a delegate to the General Convention to be held at New Providence in May, 1874. He attended the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at New Providence as a fraternal messenger. His labors for the year--one hundred sermons preached, several funerals attended, four protracted meetings held, and six [351] couples married. He was appointed chairman of the committee on education. At the Conference at Pleasant Grove in Randolph county, in 1874, he was appointed chairman of the Executive committee and of the committee on Education. During the year he preached about sixty sermons, and was assigned to Shiloh and New Providence in the Deep River Conference. In 1875, at Shiloh he served as assistant secretary, and presented a petition from the border churches asking for ministerial supply. He guarded well the interest of the churches of the Conference; and his ministerial report for the year shows that he was zealous for the cause, having preached for Shiloh, New Providence, Brown's chapel, and Cool Springs, and attended six protracted meetings. At Pleasant Ridge in Randolph county, in 1887, he was chairman of the educational committee and of the executive committee for the next year. He had charge of four churches: Parks' Cross Roads, Pleasant Ridge, Shiloh, and New Bear Creek; preached sixty sermons, and baptized eighteen persons. At the Conference at Union Grove, in 1878, he was appointed chairman of the standing committees on education, publications, home missions, and to preach the annual sermon at the opening of next Conference. When the Conference met at Parks' Cross Roads in 1879, he performed the duty to which he had been assigned. At this Conference he was assigned to the pastorate composed of Parks' Cross Roads, Pleasant Grove, and Smithwood. In 1881, at Shady Grove in Montgomery county, the Conference was opened by him, and he served on the presbytery to ordain Rev. H. T. Moffitt, and at the Conference at Pleasant Cross in 1882, he was appointed with Revs. J. P. Barrett and J. W. Holt to ordain Rev. J. A. Scott.

      In 1883, he opened the Conference at Shiloh, and was chairman of the committee on education at Big Oak in [352] Moore county, in 1884. In 1885, he attended the Conference at New Center, and preached the annual sermon from Matt. 21:28, before the Conference at Smithwood in 1886. In 1887, at Union Grove he was elected president of the Conference, and re-elected in 1888. In 1889, he was chosen fraternal messenger to the North Carolina and Virginia Conference. In 1893, at Parks' Cross Roads he served on the committee on religious literature. After the union and division in 1894, the Conference changed its name to the Western North Carolina Christian Conference. In 1894, he was absent from the Conference at Shiloh, and in 1895, his name disappears from the directory.

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