MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 37
Bishop J. M. Brown in April, 1880. Ordained Elder by the same Bishop in 1883, at Elmira, N. Y.
Was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 15, 1843. His mother's maiden name was Mary Ann Harmon. After her death he was adopted in the family of James T. Robinson, of Philadelphia. Becoming dissatisfied at some fancied slight, he left without authority, and settled in Bristol, Pa. There he embraced religion in 1866, under Rev. Samuel David (a supply) Rev. Henry Davis, Elder. On February 14, 1867, he married Miss Anna Elizabeth Fry, and was licensed to exhort October 12, 1867, by Rev. Edward Laws, then pastor, Rev. D. P. Seaton having the oversight. He received local preacher's license July 11, 1868, from Thomas T. Pierce, then pastor, and was ordained local deacon at the Phiadelphia Conference, at Harrisburg, in 1875, by Bishop J. A. Shorter. He attended the General Conference at Atlanta, Ga., as lay delegate from the Philadelphia Conference. He joined the itinerate work in the Philadelphia Conference at Chester, in 1876, was transferred to the New York Conference by Bishop Shorter and appointed to Coxsackie Circuit, N. Y., in conjunction with Rev. J. H. Nichols, by Bishop A. W. Wayman. He was returned the following year by Bishop D. A. Payne. He organized a church that year in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was ordained Elder in Sullivan Street Church, New York City, May 12, 1878, by Bishop D. A. Payne, and sent to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. There he had some misunderstanding with the people, which caused them to promise to cut his bread and butter short, which promise they faithfully carried out. But being a child of our raising, he remained firm to the church and connection. According to his own account, one day, or part of it, they fed him and his family on wind pudding, air sauce and balloon trimmings. His time there was short. A few days after, he received an appointment from Bishop Payne to Albany, N. Y., and was reappointed the following year. In 1880 he was transferred to the New Jersey Conference, and stationed at Princeton, N. J. There he served two years. He
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