BROWN, Samuel R

[s. 130] : Born at East Windsor, Conn., June 16, 1810; removed to Munson in early childhood; graduated at Yale College, 1832; sailed as a mi ionary of the ABCFM for China in 1838. His great work was education and translation. He it was who first induced Chinese youth to come to the United States for an education, and hundreds of young men from China some from the highest families of the empire found through him homes in towns and cities of the United States. On going to Japan in 1859 (under the RCA), he induced the government to send some of its princes to America for education, and he was active in securing Christian homes for them. His last services were in connection with the translation of the New Testament into Japanese, a labor of many years, in which he was a ociated with a committee from several denominations. This great work was just completed at the time of his death. He returned home in 1879 and died, June 20, 1880, in Munson, Ma . 130