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Brown, William R

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 16, 1849, in Buffalo, N. Y. He became a lawyer, and settled in Kansas in 1862. He was elected judge of the ninth judicial district of Kansas in 1867; re-elected in 1872; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1892 he located in El Reno, Okla.; and in 1894 was elected judge of the probate court.

Browne, Causten

lawyer, author, was born in 1828 in the District of Columbia. He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author of Treatise on the Construction of the Statute of Frauds. a

Browne, Frank J

lawyer, educator, was born in 1860, in Eaton, Ohio.

He is a noted educator, and in 1896 became superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington at Olympia.

Browne, George H

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1818 in Gloucester, R. I. He was elected to both the charter and suffrage legislatures of his state in 1842; and was again elected to the Rhode Island legislature, and re-elected until 1852. In 1852 he was appointed United States attorney for Rhode Island, which office he held until elected a representative from Rhode Island to the thirtyseventh congress.

Browne, Hamilton

railroad president, was born Aug. 14, 1844, in New York Mills, N. Y. He is the president of the Boone Valley Coal and Railway company at Boone, Iowa.

Browne, Irving

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 14, 1835, in Marshall, N. Y.

He is the author of Humorous Phases of the Law; Short Studies of Great Lawyers; Judicial Interpretation of Common Words and Phrases; Law and Lawyers in Literature; Iconoclasm and Whitewash; The Character of the Nurse's Deceased Husband in Romeo and Juliet; Our Best Society, a comedy; and The Elements of Criminal Law.

Browne, Jefferson B

lawyer, lieutenant-governor, was born in Key West, Fla. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Key West, Fla.; was lieutenant-governor of Florida in 1891; and during 1893-97 was collector of the port of Key West.

Browne, John Mills

surgeon, was born May 10, 1831, in Hinsdale, N. H.

He entered the United States navy as an assistant surgeon in 1853. In 1855-56 he participated in the Indian war on Puget sound, and subsequently he took part in the survey of the northwest boundary.

Browne, John Ross

traveler, author, was born in 1817 in Ireland. He was a writer of amusing travels, illustrated by original drawings. He is the author of An American Family in Germany; Yusef, a Crusade in the East; Land of Thor, a volume of Icelandic experiences; Etchings of a Whaling Voyage; Crusoe's Island; and Adventures in the Apache Country. He died Dec. 9, 1875, in Oakland, Cal.

Browne, Junius Henri

journalist, author, was born in 1833 in New York.

He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of Four Years in Secessia; The Great Metropolis, a Memoir of New York; and Light and Sensations in Europe.

Browne, Maria J. B

educator, translator, author, was born in Northampton, Mass. She has published Margaret; Laura Huntley; and Story of a Western Sunday School; and translated into Spanish The Borrowed Bible, written by her sister; and two other small volumes. She translated from the Spanish A History of Granada, by José Francisco de Luque.

Browne, Mary Frank

author, was born Sept. 9, 1835, in Warsaw, N. Y. Mrs.

Browne is the president of the San Francisco Presbyterian orphanage and farm; and the author of several works.