Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown (October 1, 1862 – November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, West Virginia. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, California, from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became dean of the Yale Divinity School. Brown was a guest preacher at Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island.