Henry Brown

Henry Brown (July 20, 1848 – 1931) was a Methodist missionary and minister in Washington state at the turn of the century, a prohibitionist, and an author of one book.

Born in Guernsey County, Ohio, Reverend Dr. Henry Brown was the presiding elder of the Spokane District of the Columbia River Conference for many years during the 1890s to the early 1900s.

Support of prohibition Brown was a prohibitionist, and continually challenged local papers coverage of prohibition and its supporters, especially the Daily Journal in Walla Walla, which in January 1888 announced it would not publish a proposed article in support of prohibition. Brown challenged the editor on the grounds that newspapers were meant to act as a "mirror to reflect public opinion" and that excluding the support of a policy that the editor disagreed with would be a disservice to the paper’s patrons.

Support of women's suffrage Brown was a vocal supporter of women’s suffrage in the Washington Territory, one of the first territories in which women gained the right to vote through full enfranchisement in 1883. Brown wrote many letters to the editor of the Daily Journal in Walla Walla about the paper’s representation of women’s newly acquired right to vote. In 1887, a year before the Washington Territorial Supreme Court revoked women’s right to vote,

His book also describes his support of prohibition – specifically, that he believed that as God created the ten commandments, the "moral law", it was up to religious leaders like himself to help make moral laws, as "the world has not yet been won over to righteousness."