The Sunday school movement 1780-1917 : and The American Sunday-School Union 1817-1917 . ies,illustrating the power of Christian principle to guide and directin the discharge of public affairs. John A. Brown (1788-1872), Third President of the American Sunday-School Union (1861-1872); Merchant, Banker and Philanthropist. John A. Brown was born in Ballymena, Ireland, May 21, 1788. Owing to political agitation he emigrated with his father, a man of ample fortune, to Baltimore at the beginning of the last century. After receiving a fair education and a training in business with his father he becam
The Sunday school movement 1780-1917 : and The American Sunday-School Union 1817-1917 . ies,illustrating the power of Christian principle to guide and directin the discharge of public affairs. John A. Brown (1788-1872), Third President of the American Sunday-School Union (1861-1872); Merchant, Banker and Philanthropist. John A. Brown was born in Ballymena, Ireland, May 21, 1788. Owing to political agitation he emigrated with his father, a man of ample fortune, to Baltimore at the beginning of the last century. After receiving a fair education and a training in business with his father he became a successful merchant and banker in Philadelphia, being chosen a director in the old United States Bank under the great financier Nicholas Biddle, and was one of the founders of the banking house of Brown Brothers, of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and London. He was unanimously chosen president of the AmericanSunday-School Union in 1861, to succeed the Hon. JohnMcLean. His eminence as a man of affairs, his probity, hissound judgment, his reputation in banking qualified him to. MISSIONARIES John Adams, LL. D.
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