Brown was born in Henrietta, New York, daughter of Joseph Brown and Abby Morse. She spoke in church in her youth. She studied at the Monroe County Academy and taught for a few years.
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1847 and studied at the Oberlin Seminary until 1850, when she was refused a degree and ordination due to her sex. In 1851 she left that church to become a member of the Unitarian Church.
In 1853 she married Samuel C. Blackwell, brother of Elizabeth Blackwell, one of the first female graduates of a medical school in the United States. Her husband's brother Henry B. Blackwell had married Antoinette's college friend, Lucy Stone. She and her husband resided in New York City and New Jersey. They had seven children, but two died in infancy.
AntoinetteBrown, later AntoinetteBrown Blackwell (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first female to be ordained as a minister in the United States, when she was called to be the pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler, New York in 1853.
Brown was born in Henrietta, New York, daughter of Joseph Brown and Abby Morse.
AntoinetteBrown Blackwell died in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (May 20, 1825-November 5, 1921), a women's rights activist and social reformer, was the first American woman to be ordained as minister by a congregation.
Antoinette "Nette" Brown was born in Henrietta, New York, the seventh child of Joseph and Abigail Morse Brown.
Brown was unprepared, however, for the openly critical attitudes of women in her parish, who had been long conditioned to regard the minister as a father figure.
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