Brown, Rev. William L., was born in Providence, R. I., in January, 1813, and graduated at Brown University in the class of 1836

Baptist Church History

Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Post by Jim Curran

Brown, Rev. William L., was born in Providence, R. I., in January, 1813, and graduated at Brown University in the class of 1836. He pursued a two years’ course of theological study at Newton. He was ordained Feb. 14, 1839. His pastorates have been with the churches at Ann Arbor, Mich.; Bristol, R. I.; West Springfield, Westborough, and Watertown, Mass.; at Mount Pleasant and Ottumwa, Iowa; and North Reading, Mass., where he is at the present time (1880) in active service. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart