John Newton Brown
John Newton Brown (
June 29 ,1803 –May 14 ,1868 ), was an influentialBaptist teacher, minister and publisher in the 19th century.He was born in
New London, Connecticut and attended Madison College (now known asColgate University ) where he graduated at the head of his class in 1823. Ordained the following year, he spent many years travelingNew England , serving as minster inBuffalo, New York ,Malden, Massachusetts , andExeter, New Hampshire as well as a teaching position at theAcademical and Theological Institution of New Hampton ,New Hampshire before ill health forced him to travel south where he took up a ministry inLexington, Virginia in 1845.In 1848 he became editorial secretary of the
American Baptist Publication Society inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , and was editor of its publications theChristian Chronicle andNational Baptist . It was under his tenure that a number of influential works of the day were published under his direction.Brown was one of the authors of the
New Hampshire Confession of Faith in 1833, which was a more moderate expression of the moreCalvinistic Baptist beliefs that existed at the time, and was widely accepted in the northernUnited States . His name has become the one most associated with this work.Brown also authored a book of
poetry , "Emily and Other Poems," (1840) which was dedicated to a sister who had died young.Brown died on May 14, 1868 in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown.
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