George S. Brown

Biography

George S. Brown (July 25, 1801 – April 10, 1886) was the first African American pastor in the Troy Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was Vermont's first Black Methodist pastor and the third Black minister overall to serve in the state, following Congregationalists Lemuel Haynes and Alexander Twilight. He organized a white congregation in Wolcott, Vermont, in 1855 and 1856 and raised a church.

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