Theron Brown, born at Willimantic, Connecticut, April 29, 1832.
Graduated at Hartford Theological Seminary in 1858; Newton Theological
Institution, 1859. Ordained in Baptist Ministry, 1859; Pastor South
Framingham, Massachusetts, 1859-62; Canton, Massachusetts, 1863-70; on
staff _Youth's Companion_ since 1870. Author various juvenile stories;
_Life Songs_ (poems), 1894; _Nameless Women of the Bible_, 1904; _The
Story of the Hymns and Tunes_, 1907; _Under the Mulberry Tree_ (a
novel), 1909; _The Birds of God_, 1911. He died February 14, 1914.