George Rowland Brown. III

Background

III, George Rowland Brown, was born on July 6, 1867 in Stewart County, Georgia, United States. Son of George Rowland, II, and Martha Jane (Hightower) B.

Education

Student Western Maryland. College, Westminster, Maryland., 1885-1887. Bachelor of Arts, Bowdon (Georgia) College, 1888.

Doctor of Divinity, Kansas City (Kansas) University, 1904.

Career

Ordained to ministry Methodist Prot. Church, 1888; pastor successively at Bowdon, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, Inwood, Long Island, New York, Grafton, West Virginia, Harrisville, West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, High Point, North Carolina, Reidsville, North Carolina. Pastor Liberty, North Carolina, since 1938.

President West Virginia Conference, 1903-1904.

Member of 10 general conferences, 1892-1936. Secretary-treasurer Board of Ministerial Education, 1908-1917.

Vice president of Executive Committee Methodist Protestant Church, 1936-1939. Delegate to Methodist Uniting Conference, Kansas City, Missoury, 1939.

Elected member Judicial Council of Methodist Church, May 8, 1939.

Achievements

• George Rowland Brown. III has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Mason.; Rotarian.

Connections

Married Edith May Adamson, February 28, 1889. Children: George Rowland, IV, Edith May (Mistress George Hering Armacost), Helen Marguerite (Mistress Weaver McTyeire Marr), Robert Adamson.

Father:

George Rowland B.

Mother:

Martha Jane (Hightower) B.

Spouse:

Edith May Adamson

child:

Helen Marguerite III (Mistress Weaver McTyeire Marr)

child:

George Rowland III

child:

Robert Adamson III

child:

Edith May III (Mistress George Hering Armacost)

child:

IV III