Samuel Brown is widely known as the husband of historian Kate Holbrook.
Samuel Brown is a physician, medical researcher, and religious historian.
He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
Samuel Brown is an Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and medical ethics and humanities at the University of Utah and is also an intensive care physician in the shock trauma ICU at Intermountain Medical Center.
He has authored numerous works including the award-winning book, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
Samuel Brown and Kate Holbrook met in Boston and married. In their middle 30s, they returned to Utah.
The pair had three daughters; Amelia Holbrook-Brown, Lucia Holbrook-Brown, and Persephone Holbrook-Brown.
Samuel Brown and Kate Holbrook were together until her death on August 20, 2022.
His wife Kate Holbrook was a historian and writer who worked as the managing historian of women’s history in the Church History Department (CHD) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).