Samuel Dwight Chown
Canadian Methodist minister (1853–1933)
Samuel Dwight Chown (11 April 1853 – 30 January 1933) was a Methodist minister who led the Methodist Church of Canada into the United Church of Canada in 1925.
Early years
Samuel Dwight Chown was born on 11 April 1853 in Kingston, then in Canada West. At the age of four he took the pledge to abstain from alcohol. As a youth Chown resisted attending Methodist classes, but he promised he would do so to his dying father, and was converted at the Sydenham Street Church in Kingston in 1868 soon after his father had died. He graduated from the Kingston Military School, and for a short period served in the Prince of Wales Own Rifles. He then worked in his father's hardwood and sheet metal company. He was accepted on probation by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1874, attended Victoria College in 1876–1877 and was ordained a minister in 1879.
Chown served in a number of churches. In 1875, he helped Richard Hammond in his revival meetings. Later he led services himself.
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