Born: June 16, 1810, Scantic Parish, East Windsor, Connecticut.
Died: June 20, 1880, Monson, Massachusetts.
Son of hymnist Phoebe Brown, Samuel was educated at Amherst College, Yale College (graduated 1832); Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina; and Union Seminary, New York. He taught in Canton, China; Macao; and Hong Kong (1838-47), and upon his return America, ran an academy in Rome, New York (1848-51). In 1851, he went to a Reformed Dutch pastorate in Owasco Lake, New York. A school he founded there, Springside, was part of the “Underground Railroad” that helped escaped slaves move north before the American civil war. In 1859, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Dutch Church sent Brown to Yokohama, Japan, as the first American missionary in that country. He translated a number of books from English to Japanese, prepared Japanese grammar volumes, and helped found Meiji Gakuin University, in Shirokanedai, Tokyo.
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