Background
Brown, Frank Chilton was born on July 4, 1890 in Lewisburg, West Virginia, United States. Son of Frank Chilton and Mary Nelson (Montgomery) Brown.
Brown, Frank Chilton was born on July 4, 1890 in Lewisburg, West Virginia, United States. Son of Frank Chilton and Mary Nelson (Montgomery) Brown.
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, 1909, Doctor of Divinity, 1925. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1914. Student United Free Church College, Scotland, 1914-1915.
Student of University of Oxford, England, Trinity term, 1935.
Doctor of Laws, Austin College, 1945.
Principal Potomac Academy, Romney, West Virginia, 1909-1911. Ordained ministry Presbyterian Church, United States, 1914. Assistant pastor Henry Drummond Memorial Church, Glascow, Scotland, 1914-1915.
Pastor First Church, Logan.
West Virginia, 1915-1920, Breem Memorial Church, Charleston, West. Virginia, 1920-1936, First Church, Dallas, Texas, 1926-1952. Member board church extension since 1950.
Professor English Bible and pastoral theology, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, since 1952. Moderator Kanawha Presbytery, 1916, Synod, West Virginia, 1930, Dallas Presbytery, 1916, General Assembly of Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1940.
Member Executive Committee Home Missions General Assembly, Presbyterian Church, since 1939.
Member board of trustees General Assembly Presbyterian Church, United States, 1928-1935. Recppient of Algernon-Sydney Medallion, Hampden-Sydney College, 1940. Chairman commission on Evangelism General Assembly Presbyterian Church United States, 1928-1935.
Trustee Greenbrier College for Women, 1925-1930, Hampden-Sydney College, 1933-1935, Davis Stuart School (Synodical orphanage), 1933-1935, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas.
1944-1946; member board directors, Dallas War Chest, 1944-1947. Director, chairman church relations, Dallas Community Chest, 1949.
Dallas Boy Scout Council, Freeman Memorial Clinic, trustee Austin College President, Dallas Pastor’s Association, 1947-1948. Member Newcomen Society, Eugene Field Society (honorary), Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Member board church extension since 1950. Member Executive Committee Home Missions General Assembly, Presbyterian Church, since 1939. Member board of trustees General Assembly Presbyterian Church, United States, 1928-1935.
Recppient of Algernon-Sydney Medallion, Hampden-Sydney College, 1940.
Chairman commission on Evangelism General Assembly Presbyterian Church United States, 1928-1935. Trustee Greenbrier College for Women, 1925-1930, Hampden-Sydney College, 1933-1935, Davis Stuart School (Synodical orphanage), 1933-1935, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas.
Member board directors, Dallas War Chest, 1944-1947. Member Newcomen Society, Eugene Field Society (honorary), Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Married Mary Oden Hansford, October 27, 1915.