Background
Brown, Owen Clarence was born on July 25, 1871 in Cato, Kansas, United States. Son of Israel Keys and Edith Eva (Johnson) Brown.
Brown, Owen Clarence was born on July 25, 1871 in Cato, Kansas, United States. Son of Israel Keys and Edith Eva (Johnson) Brown.
Educated Kansas Normal College, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1892, 97, 98. Bachelor of Arts, Ottawa (Kansas) University, 1902, Master of Arts, 1909, Doctor of Divinity, 1919. Bachelor of Divinity, Newton Theological Institution, 1905.
1 son, Carl Newton. ordained Baptist ministry, 1899. Pastor Bronson, Kansas, 1899-1902, Mount Auburn Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1904-1905, First Church, Emporia, Kansas, 1905-1907. First Church, Lawrence, Kansas, 1907-1917.
Editor adult South.S. publications, American Baptist Publication Society, 1917-1924.
Editor in chief, same, 1924-1933, secretary department of religious education, 1928-1933, and executive secretary 1933-1938.
Married Lois C. Gates, of McCune, Kansas, July 12, 1899.