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Isaac Van Arsdale Brown was born on November 4, 1784 at Pluckemin, Somerset County, New Jersey. The son of Abraham R. and Margaret Brown, he was of Huguenot descent.
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Isaac Van Arsdale Brown was born on November 4, 1784 at Pluckemin, Somerset County, New Jersey. The son of Abraham R. and Margaret Brown, he was of Huguenot descent.
Isaac Brown took his degree at Princeton in 1802, and was tutor there during the year 1805-06. Later he received an hononary degree of D. D. from Lafayette College conferred to him in 1858.
After taking a degree from Princeton, in the meantime, Isaac Brown had studied theology under Dr. John Woodhull of Freehold, New Jersey, and was licensed and ordained by the New Brunswick Presbytery in 1807. He was given the pastorate of the church at Lawrenceville, known until 1816 as Maidenhead. Three years later he established Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial School, first called the Maidenhead Academy. He was its principal until 1833.
In 1842 he moved to Mount Holly, New Jersey, where he was instrumental in organizing a Presbyterian church. He also preached occasionally at Plattsburg, New Jersey, and organized a church there. Various records report him as living at Trenton, Somerville, Bordentown and New Brunswick, New Jersey, for the remaining years of his life, in all of which places he preached at various times.
He was a trustee of Princeton College from 1816 and of Princeton Seminary from 1822 until his death.
After he left Lawrenceville he devoted some time to literary work, and published a Historical Vindication of the Abrogation of the Plan of Union by the Presbyterian Church (1855); and Slavery Irreconcilable with Christianity and Sound Reason; or, An Anti-Slavery Agreement (1858; republished in 1860 under the name of White Diamonds Better Than "Black Diamonds"; Slave States Impoverished by Slave Labor). A Sermon on the Work of the Holy Spirit Delivered before the Synod of New Jersey had been published in 1837. The Memories of Robert Finley (1819) were written during the period of his pastorate and the early years of the School in Lawrenceville.
On April 19, 1861, Isaac Brown died at his Trenton home and is buried in Mercer Cemetery.
One of the Isaac Brown's achievements, after he obtained the pastorate of the church at Lawrenceville, was the establishment of Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial School, first called the Maidenhead Academy. After he moved to Mount Holly, New Jersey in 1842, he was instrumental in organizing a Presbyterian church, and also organized a church in Plattsburg, New Jersey. Dr. Brown was also one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, and worked for its advancement, and was one of the original members of the American Bible Society.
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For eleven years Isaac Brown continued as pastor of the church in Lawrenceville and during the remainder of the period of his residence here was carried on the minutes of the Presbyterian Church as minister of that denomination.
Finley, who seems to have been much the same type of man, interested in the same movements, made a great appeal to Brown, who says of the book in the preface that "the memorial is an act not less of justice than of kindness to ourselves. "
He was a member of the American Colonization Society and one of the original members of the American Bible Society.
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It was said of him that he was a man of "rare talents and learning, enterprising and public spirited, a warm friend, a liberal and zealous supporter and defender of what he felt was the right. "
Isaac Brown married in 1807 Mary Wright Houston of Philadelphia.
