BIO: Abijah Brown, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 160.
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  BROWN, ABIJAH, was born in the town of Augusta, Oneida County, N.Y., 
on March 25, 1810, and died in Masonville, N.Y., on September 22, 1894.
  His parents, who were Methodists before his remembrance, moved upon 
the Stockbridge reservation when he was six years of age.  He found 
Christ when he was eight years old.  After a season he wandered from 
the fold, and was not reclaimed until July 21, 1831, when at his 
father's family altar he again found peace.
  He was given exhorter's license in 1837, and local preacher's license 
in 1842.  He had been a local preacher eight years, when, in 1850, he 
was sent to Smyrna as supply, and in 1851 joined the Oneida Conference.  
He became a member of the Wyoming Conference by the allotment of 
territory in 1869.
  On November 6, 1833, he married Miss Rhoda Carpenter, who survived 
him until 1895.  Both are buried in Masonville.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1851-52, Union Valley; 1853-54, 
Freetown; 1855-56, Virgil; 1857, Groton; 1858-59, Harford; 1860-61, 
Scott; 1862, McLean; 1863, Georgetown; 1864, Perryville; 1865-68, 
Onondaga Indian Mission; 1869-70, Plymouth; 1871-73, Preston; 1874, 
South New Berlin; 1875-76, Nineveh; 1877-78, Masonville; 1879-94, sd.  
Five months of 1879 he supplied Sidney Center.