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| | John Henry Hobart Brown |
 | | BROWN, John Henry Hobart, P. bishop, born in New York City, 1 January, 1831; died in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 2 May, 1888. |
 | | In 1856 he assumed the rectorship of the church of the Evangelists, New York, and in 1863 that of St. John's church, Cohoes, New York He was secretary of the convention of Albany in 1868, and archdeacon of the Albany convocation in 1870. |
 | | He was chosen to be the first bishop of the diocese of Fond du Lae, Wisconsin, and was consecrated in Cohoes, 15 December, 1875. |
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