BROWN, Samuel Robbins, American scholar, educator and missionary : b. East Wind sor, Conn., 16 June 1810; d. Munson, Mass., June 1880. His mother was Phoebe Hinsdale, one of the first and best known of American hymnologists. Educated at Munson Academy, Yale College and the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., he supported himself most of the time by teaching music. He sailed with his young bride in 1838 to China and at Macao organized and taught in the school of the Morrison Education Society, which was later removed to Hongkong, where Dr. Brown was wounded by pirates. He established the first Christian Protestant school in China, brought the first Chinese students to America for education and was the chief instrument in establishing (at Elmira, N. Y.) the first wo men's college in America chartered as such. He translated the New Testament into Jap-' anese 13 days after the formation of the Ameri can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis sions. He returned to America in 1847, bring
ing with him Yung Wing (who afterward brought 120 Chinese students to America) and Wong, who became a famous physician. Most of Dr. Brown's Chinese pupils rose to posi-. Lions in the Imperial Customs and other gov ernment services which required a knowledge of English. Remaining in America until 1859, as pastor and teacher at Owasco Lake, N. Y., he went out to Japan to found the mission of the Reformed Church in America. He trained a native ministry and many Japanese pupils' who have since become editors, statesmen, scholars, presidents of colleges or otherwise active in the remaking of the Japanese empire. He wrote the first 'Grammar of Colloquial Japanese) and other works for the mastery of the language, and made scholarly tions. Consult Griffis, W. E., 'A Maker of the New Orient) (1902).