Background
Brown, William Montgomery was born on September 4, 1855 in near Orrville, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph Morrison and Lucina (Cary) Brown.
Brown, William Montgomery was born on September 4, 1855 in near Orrville, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph Morrison and Lucina (Cary) Brown.
Educated Gambier, O. Doctor of Divinity, Kenyon, 1898, University of the South, 1899.
Became a deacon, 1883, priest, 1884, Protestant Episcopal Church, rector Galion, O., 1883-1891. General missionary and archdeacon, Diocese of Ohio, 1891. Consecrated bishop coadjutor of Arkansas, June 24, 1898, bishop of Arkansas, September 5, 1900.
Resigned on account of ill health, April 11, 1912. Charged with “heresy” and deposed from office of bishop by vote of 95 to 11, by House of Bishops, Protestant Episcopal Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1925. Later bishop Old Catholic Church in America.
Author: The Church for Americans, 1895. The Crucial Race Questions, 1907. The Level Plan for Church Union, 1910.
Communism and Christianism, 1920. My Heresy, 1926; The Bankruptcy of Christian Supernaturalism, Vol. I, Trial, 1928, Vol. II, Science, 1929, Vol.
III, History, 1930, Vol. IV, Philosophy, 1930, Vol. V, The Bible, 1931, Vol.
VI, Sociology, 1931, Vol. VII, Other Heretics in the Episcopal Church, 1934. Science and History for Girls and Boys, 1932.
Teachings of Marx for Girls and Boys, 1935. Home: Galion, O.
Author: The Church for Americans, 1895. The Crucial Race Questions, 1907. The Level Plan for Church Union, 1910.Communism and Christianism, 1920. My Heresy, 1926
The Bankruptcy of Christian Supernaturalism, Vol. I, Trial, 1928, Vol. II, Science, 1929, Vol.III, History, 1930, Vol. IV, Philosophy, 1930, Vol. V, The Bible, 1931, Vol.VI, Sociology, 1931, Vol. VII, Other Heretics in the Episcopal Church, 1934. Science and History for Girls and Boys, 1932.Teachings of Marx for Girls and Boys, 1935.
Married Ella Scranton Bradford, April.