Guide to the Hubert W. Brown and Wilma Jacobs Brown Papers

Hubert W. and Wilma Jacobs Brown were Presbyterian missionaries in Mexico City from the 1880s to 1906. Hubert W. Brown was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1858. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1879, and served briefly as principal of Ypsilanti High School before attending Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1883. He served as Stated Supply in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, 1883-1884, and was ordained as an evangelist in 1884 by the Monmouth Presbytery. In 1884, Brown was appointed by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions to the Southern Mexico Mission. In 1886, he married his fellow missionary, Mary Wilma Jacobs, who had been posted to the Northern Mexico Mission in 1883. Following their marriage, the two worked together at the Mexico Mission in Mexico City. Wilma Jacobs Brown was engaged in educational work. Hubert W. Brown taught at the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary at Coyoacan and was editor of the newspaper El Faro. He also wrote and translated works on the history of the church in Mexico. The Browns returned to the United States when Hubert W. Brown became ill in 1906. He died the same year, and Wilma Jacobs Brown retired from missionary work.