Brown, Edwin R. Papers

File

Identifier: RG-1596

Staff Only

Content Description

Papers on Edwin R. Brown, missionary to the Mexicans in California, Kansas, Colorado and Arizona

Dates

Creation: 1910-1951

Language of Materials

Materials in the collection are in English and in Spanish

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Biographical / Historical

Graduated from Shurtleff College in Illinois in 1904 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1907. In that year he also married Helen Scrogin. After graduating from the Seminary, he served for two and a half years as assistant to Bob Burdette, at Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles. He left to go to Mexico City as pastor at the English speaking Baptist church there. Later he went to Puebla, Mexico as pastor of the Mexican Baptist Church. While in Puebla he built the Latin American Hospital for the American Baptist Home Mission Society. With headquarters in Los Angeles, he served as general missionary among the Mexicans and covered California, Colorado, Arizona and Kansas.

Extent

.4 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box, legal)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Marian Boehr 2014

File Plan

Addresses and papers, Arizona Mexican work, Articles by Brown and others, Baptist publications, California Mexican work, clippings and research on Mexico and notes, Colorado Mexican work, Constitution of Iglesia Bautista Mexiana de Maravilla Park, Correspondence, Diaries 1910-1917, Directories, hymns and prose, Program Convencion Bautista Mexicana 1949, Home mission addresses, Kansas Mexican work, Methodists in Mexico, Mexican Baptists and the New Freedom by Brown, Photographs, Spanish American Baptist Seminary, Statistics, surveys, Brown’s reports and research