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From History of Whitingham : from its organization to the present time
by Leonard Brown, F.E. Housh, Brattleboro VT, 1886
Page 160
Nathan Brown married Betsey Goldsmith and came to Whitingham about 1810, and settled on the farm lately known as the "Elder Lamb place." Their family consisted of two sons and two daughters, that lived to maturity. This family was the most remarkable for literary and theological talent of any family in town. Nathan, the oldest brother, was a noted scholar from his early boyhood; he went to Williams college, where he graduated with the highest honors as a scholar and a theologian, very young. He was sent to China and Japan, where he spent 23 years as missionary of the Baptist church; he then returned to his native country, edited and published a paper called "the American Baptist" a few years, then returned to foreign countries, where he died Jan. 1, 1886. He was one of the most profound philologists of the present age. Few men of any former age have been able to perform the mental labor he has accomplished. Having enjoyed remarkably good health through a long and laborious life, he has translated the New Testament into many foreign languages, has written and published many valuable theological works, both in English and foreign languages. He was a world-renowned scholar, and one of the leading lights of this age in the Baptist church. To do justice to his history would require more space than we can allow in this volume.
William G., the younger brother, was also a ripe scholar, and a devoted Christian; he has spent most of his life in earnest effort to instruct and enlighten his associates whenever opportunity offered. He also had a superior talent for poetry, as the many specimens now extant clearly prove. He ranked high in the volume entitled "Vermont Poets and Poetry." He is still living, as we suppose, in the state of Wisconsin.
The elder sister in this interesting family married Jonathan Ballard of Charlemont, Mass.; had a large family of children, most of them now occupying prominent positions in society, and in the church. She is still living in Charlemont with her son, her husband having died about twenty years ago. The younger sister died unmarried in Charlemont, Mass., Sept. 9, 1872, age 54.
Some of the descendants of the Deacon Jonas and Nathan Brown families, have attained, and now occupy, the highest positions in the literary world, of any of the natives of the town of Whitingham. We very seldom find such combination of literary, theological and poetical talent in one small family, as the family of Deacon Nathan Brown possessed.
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