Background
Brown, Isaac Van Arsdale was born on November 4, 1784 in Duckemin, New Jersey, United States. Son of Abraham R. and Margaret Brown.
Brown, Isaac Van Arsdale was born on November 4, 1784 in Duckemin, New Jersey, United States. Son of Abraham R. and Margaret Brown.
Graduated from College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1802. Doctor of Divinity, Lafayette College, Easton, Massachusetts, 1858.
Tutor, College of New Jersey, 1805-1806. Licensed and ordained to ministry by New Brunswick Presbytery, 1807. Pastor Maidenhead (later Lawrenceville) Presbyterian Church, 1807-1842.
Established Maidenhead Academy (later Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial School), 1810, principal, until 1833. Trustee College of New Jersey, 1816-1861, Princeton Seminary, 1822-1861. Organized Presbyterian Church, Mount Holly, New Jersey, 1842.
A founder American Colonization Society. An original member American Bible Society Author: Memories of Robert Finley, 1819. Slavery Irreconcilable with Christianity and Sound Reason, 1858.
Member American Bible Society Author: Memories of Robert Finley, 1819.
Married Mary Wright Houston, 1807.