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Brownlee, William Craig

clergyman, author, was born in 1784 in Scotland. In 1826 he was installed as one of the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church in New York. He edited the Dutch Church Magazine through four consecutive volumes, and published Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers; The Roman Catholic Controversy; Treatise on Popery; Lights and Shadows of Christian Life; The Christian Youths' Book; Christian Father at Home; Deity of Christ; History of the Western Apostolic Church; The Converted Murderer; and The Whigs of Scotland, a romance, besides several pamphlets. He died Feb. 10, 1860, in New York city.

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