John Newton Brown

John Newton Brown (June 29, 1803 – May 14, 1868)

was an influential Baptist teacher,

minister and publisher in the 19th century.

He was born in New London, Connecticut

as well as a teaching position at the Academical and Theological Institution

of New Hampton, New Hampshire,

before ill health forced him to travel south

where he took up a ministry in Lexington, Virginia, in 1845.

In 1848 he became editorial secretary

of the American Baptist Publication Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

and was editor of its publications the Christian Chronicle and National Baptist.

It was under his tenure that a number of influential works of the day

were published under his direction.

Brown was one of the authors of the New Hampshire Confession of Faith in 1833

which was a more moderate expression of the more Calvinistic beliefs

that existed at the time,

and was widely accepted in the northern United States.

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