BESSIE FRANC BROWN
BROWN, BESSIE FRANC: Minister Society of Friends; b Carroll, Iowa June 14, 1886; d of Perley Benton Brown-Eva Louise Dougherty; ed Harlan HS; Epworth Evangelistic Inst, St Louis Mo; Taylor U, Upland Ind; Chicago Evangelistic Inst, BA Bachelor of Evangelistic Theology; 1908-11 missionary to Navajo Indians; 1918-24 missionary in Canton, China; 1912-15 evangelist; 1915-17 Friends pastor, Allen Neb, 1927-28 Rockford Ohio, 1929-30 Central City, 1930-32 North Loup Neb, 1933-35 Colorado Springs, Colo, 1936-38 Searsboro, 1938-39 Richland; 1939-40 homemaker for father, (dec Mar 3, 1940); 1940- homemaker for mother, Harlan; field representative Amer Friends Service Com; mbr pastoral & Evangelistic Com of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends; Natl Holiness Assn; Ministerial Assn; mbr WCTU; hobbies: arts, crafts; res 1206 Baldwin, Harlan.
From Who's Who in Iowa, by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 1112. Transcribed by Denise Wurner, March, 2013.
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