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Note: See David Mulvane Sr.'s notes for piece he wrote on Mulvane's death.
He was a founding member of the Methodist Protestant society in Newcomerstown and the president of the committee who built the first church which the society erected in Newcomerstown.
Unidentified newspaper clipping. Biographical; Rev Jas. Brown, MD. by Rev. J. W. Thompson . . . The deceased was greatly respected and well and widely known, having been an active, zealous and faithful laborer in the Methodist Protestant Church for thirty-three years and an elder in the church for nineteen years, and having filled all of the offices pertaining to the church. He was a representative tot he General Conference which held its session at Princeton, also a member of the convention at Blatimore, and quite a number of times delegate tot he annual conference. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Standing District Committee of the Muskingum Conference. the last two years of his useful life were spent in looking after and assisting in the building of the new church here, which was dedicated last August, and stands as a monument of his zeal and faith, and out of which he was the first to be carried to the "city of the dead."
Among his last utterances were relative to the church. He said to some of the members who were at his bedside: "My work is done. I now leave it with you. I go to enteer the church triumphant."
Dr. Brown, as a Christian, was eminently consistent; as a member of the church, zealous and faithful; as a preacher, uncompromising and unassuming; as a physician, candid and cautious; as a counselor and friend, sure and true; as a business man and citizen, honest and honorable- in a word, one of God's noblemen, a true man!. . .
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