Brabrook, Rev. B. F. (1809-1853)

BRABROOK

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/18/2007 at 20:42:21

Historical Sketches of Iowa Baptists, 1886.

REV. B. F. Brabrook died at Davenport June 9, 1853. Born at Acton, Massachusetts, September 15, 1809, baptized in 1829; graduated at Columbia College, D. C., and studied theology at Newton Theological Seminary. He was ordained April 19, 1837, and immediately started for St. Louis, where he labored until his health failed and he was compelled to return east. In 1843 he engaged as agent of Foreign Missions in the Western States. He visited Iowa, and on the day he entered the state said, “To-day, for the first time my feet press the soil of Iowa, and beneath its sod my bones may rest.” In 1845 he settled as pastor at Davenport, and afterward, upon the failure of his eyes, entered the agency of the Home Mission Society. He was continuously under appointment of this society from 1846 till 1852. “As a Christian, a pastor and an agent Brother Brabrook was pious, devoted, talented and beloved. The influence of his labors will long be felt in Iowa, and the record of them is in heaven.”