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--Additional Biographical Experi ences, Episodes or Further Comment on Back.
Ernest Brown
. P roperly inaugu rating his tenth year of
l11s I ron Moun tain .pas to rate, from October
I: t to Ja nu ary 15th, E rnest Brown made
2:>0 pas toral calls, conducted 10 funerals
a?d bap tized he children, H e made fiv~
high sc!l~ol a? drcsses, one Rotary add ress,
one . M m1stcn a l Associa tion add ress, and
~ pres1ded a t fi ve hig h school debates H e
~ was ou t <;>f hi s pulpit one Sunday o.n ac~ count of !lh~ e~s, the third time o nly in 26
years of mm1s try tha t on accoun t of illness. he was compelled to relinqu ish his
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He Served the U.P.
When a Michigan Methodist minister clies. jt is
not the usual policy for the Advocate to carry sne"i " 1
tributes other than what may appear in t he obitu ~.··::.
The r easons for this are obvious. There ar e, how.
ever, instances when we may be excused for indul.<ring a personal privilege. The occasion for this i ~
· the death of Rev. El.·nest Brown. As far back r'~
our memory goes, we remember this man of r; .,,(
His name was one of those household words in "
par sonage home and our District Superintet:''"
father always mentioned it with the highest r es:r·.
Er nest Brown was one among many who l oy<~ ' '·
served Michigan's f ar off ·northern peningu: ·
What's mor e he liked it and is one of few who coul ·!
claim that his entire minist ry was spent in that pa···
of the state. As might be expected, he held a unionP
place in the esteem of Upper Peninsula f olk. He·
knew their ways. He knew their climate. The cold
winters didn't chase him t o warmer climes. Nor dici
the peninsula's economic r everses send him scurry~
ing for more prosperous pulpits in the southern part
of the state. Not that we are blaming those who
came south, but only that we may pay special tribute to the little man who stayed.
The day after his death The Iron Mountain News
can'ied a lead editorial about him entitled, "He Was
·a F r iend," and that goes especially for the people in
the U.P. Ernest Brown belonged to a generation
of Methodist preacliers who served many winters in
't he north in yesteryears when the winds blew a little
stronger and the snow drifts were considerably
deeper. But undaunted by the driven snow and subzero cold, when duty called, these Son'S of God
could be seen facing into the storm. The wind-blown
snow has all but obliterated their trails but their influence for Christ ljves on in the soul~ pf t.Jlo~~ they
served.
EV. ERNEST BROWN, r etired
R member of the Det r oit Confere~ce,
died J anuary 19 a t St. J oseph Medical
Cent er in Hancock, where he ha? been
r eceiving treatment for a h ear t ailment.
Mr. Brown had spent his en tire minist r y in the Upper Peninsu~ a an~ man y
will r ecall his fi ne p reach mg, his good
fell owship and his pastor al car e. He
was born Apr il 8, 1876, at N egaunee.
He attended the public sch_ools of
N egaunee, gradua ted from Alb\On College in 1904, and t ?ok post -graduat e
work at Hamline U mver sity, St. Pau.l ,
Minn. He was admitted into th~ DetrOit
Conference on tl; al in 1905, mto full
m embership in 1907, and served the f ollo\vin"' char ges: Ba r aga, Ontonagon,
Dolla; Bay, Atlantic, Bessemer, Iron
Mountain Central, Hancock and Neg~u
nee. He r et ired in 1945, later serv:ng
Ir on Mountain First, a nd then movmg
to H ancock where he had since made
hi s home.
He was a life member of Negaunee
L odge. Free and Accepted Maso'?s, member of Francis _M. Moore Consistory of
Mar quette, and P ast S tate Grand Chapla in of the Independent Order of Odd
F ellows.
Mr Brown is survived by his widow,
Mrs . . Ernest Br own, 1100 Hill Street,
H ancock ; a daught er , Mrs. Boyu
W aisanen ; thr ee sons, Ivan and Eme~t
of I ron Mount ain and G~orge of Bruce s
Cr ossing, Mich .; three ~Isters. _Mrs. Erving Barkle of Colar ame, Mmn. ; Mrs.
Steve Christian of N ational Mine, a nd
Mrs. J oseph Oatey of ~akefield ; _four
bl·other s J ohn and W ill of N abonal
Mine, Arthur of I shpeming, a~d Albert
of Jackson ; and eight grandchildren.
Funer al services wer e held on J anuary
21 in F ir st Methodist Church , Hanco~k,
Rev. Charles F . W olf e, distl·ict s uperm t ende"nt, officiating assisted by R~v.
H arold W. Diehl, past or , and Rev. William G. Prout, r etired. Rev. Herber t
l\1. I ngr aham of Munising was at the
organ . Another service was held Januar y 22 from the J . B . E r ickson _Fun~ral
H om e in I r on Mountain at wh1ch tlm:
Mr W olfe was assisted by Rev. E skll
Fr~de1·ickson of Iron Mountain Trini~y
and Rev. J oh n Grenfell of I ron Mounta~n
First. Bur ial was in the Iron Mountam
Memm; al Cem etery.
P allbearers, active and _honor ary, included the f ollowing mimsters : J am es
R. Balfour , H ough ton Gra~e ; Charles W.
Cookingham, Calumet F1rst; Earl C.
Fleury, P a inesdale; Byron G. H atch,
L'Anse; Paul M. J arvis, Onton agon;
Olav A. Kvisgaard, Calumet Wesley ;
(}-qstave Kvisg aa rd, r etired m ember of
the Wisconsin Conferenoet • nf..John
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MRS. MABEL .J. llHOWN, 81, of Hancock, widow of Rev. Ernest Brown of
the Detroit Conference, died August 18
in St. 1Mary H ospital, Duluth, where she
had ·been a patient a week. The former
l\Iabel J. Corneil was born in Osgood,
Canada, April 16, 1884, and came to the
United States whe n she was six weeks
old. H er childhood was spent in Manistique and she ma rried i\Ir. Brown in
Ishpeming, September 27, 1906. They
served churches in Baraga, Ontonagon,
Dollar Bay, Atla ntic Mine, Bessemer,
Iron Mountain, Hancock a nd N egaunee.
Mr. Brown died in 1953 in Hancock
where they resided. Mrs. Brown was a
member of First Church, Hancock, and
t he W SCS. She was also a member of
the H a ncock OES. Survivors include a
daughter, Mrs. Boyu Waisanen of Hancock; three sons, George of Bruce Crossing, and Ivan and Judge Ernest Brown,
both of Iron Moun tain ; a brother, Fred
Corneil of Fenton; e ight grandchildren
and eight g reat-grandchildren. Funeral
services were held in Firs t Church, H a ncock, and a lso in the Erickson and Son
F uneral Home in I ron Mo untain with
Rev. Bruce W. Garner, her pastor, a nd
Rev. James H illiard of Ewen, officiating.
durial was in the family lot in :Park
Cemetery, Iron Mountain. 9~9-~s--
Brown, Ernest