Brown, William R – Browne, Thomas M
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.
Brown, William Wallace
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 1836, in Summerhill, N. Y. He enlisted in the union army for a three-years' term; and served with gallantry until the close of the war. He was elected district attorney in 1866. He was a representative in the state legislature from 1872 to 1876; was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress as a republican.
Brown, Wolston Richmond
banker, lawyer, was born Oct. 6, 1860, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1886 he was elected to the city council of Passaic, N. J., and served two terms; in 1889 was appointed supreme court commissioner; in 1891 was elected mayor, and re-elected in 1893.
BROWN, YARDLEY T.. journalist, poet, was born July 13, 1852, near Winchester, Va. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been the editor and owner of The Telephone of Loudon, Va.
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, Charles Farrar
author, was born April 26, 1834, in Waterford, Maine. He was a very genuine though grotesque humorist, whose satire is invariably good-natured and whose humor is based on shrewd sense. While a printer in the office of The Plaindealer, in Cleveland, he began publishing his series of letters from Artemus Ward, Showman. Later he became known as a popular humorous lecturer, and was lecturing in England with success at the time of his death. He was the author of Artemus Ward: His Book; Artemus Ward Among the Mormons; Artemus Ward in London; Artemus Ward: His Travels; and Artemus Ward's Lecture at Egyptian Hall. He died March 6, 1867, in Southampton, England.
Browne, Francis Fisher
journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1843, in Windham county, Vt. He is a son of William Goldsmith Browne, the author of the popular poem, A Hundred Years to Come, and the proprietor of The Journal of Chicopee, Mass. He served through the civil war in the fortysixth regiment Massachusetts volunteers. He studied law; edited The Lakeside Monthly of Chicago during 1869- 74; was afterward literary editor of The Alliance; and in 1880 founded The Dial, of which he is still editor and chief owner. His principal works are Golden Poems by British and American Authors; Bugle Echoes; Laurel Crown; and a volume of his own poems entitled Volunteer Grain. The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln, from his pen, is a valuable acquisition to historical literature.
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, George Waldo
lecturer, author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1851, in Deerfield, N. H. He is the author of A Daughter of Maryland; Civil and Political History of Manchester: Sent to Siberia; Lights and Shades of Russian Life; Captain of Honor; and Legends and Folklore of the Land of the Granite Hills. He is also the author of a volume of poems entitled Plain Poems of Heart and Home; has contributed poems to various standard collections; and is a popular writer of Manchester, N. H.
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.
Browne, Samuel Barnett
journalist, lawyer, was born Sept. 18, 1844, in Mt. Vernon, Ala. He served in the confederate army; lost his right foot at Frazier's Farm; again entered the army as a cavalryman; and was recommended as major by Gen. Robert E.
Lee for distinguished valor on the battlefield. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar; subsequently he resided in Calvert, Texas, and became editor of the Central Texan. He again returned to Mobile, Ala., where he has become distinguished especially in criminal law, and is known as one of the most eminent lawyers of the Alabama bar.
Browne, Samuel J
clergyman, philanthropist, was born March 19, 1788, in England. He became a minister of the United Brethren, but parted with them on the question of secret societies, and joined the presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868. He accumulated a large fortune by the rise of real estate in that city, and bequeathed $150,- 000 for the establishment of a university to bear his name, also land whereon to erect the building, and an endowment for professorships. He left other sums for the building of a church and for the establishment of a free school in Cincinnati. He died Sept. 10, 1872, in Harrison Junction, Ohio.
Browne, Sara H
author, was born in Sunderland, Mass. She has published The Book for the Eldest Daughter; The *Borrowed Bible; Philip Alderton; Maggie Menealy; and other volumes for the young; also A Manual of Commerce; and magazine articles in prose and poetry.
Browne, Thomas H. Bayly
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1844 at Accomack, Va. He volunteered as a private in company F, thirty-ninth regiment Virginia infantry; afterward served as a private in Chew's battery of the Stuart horse artillery; and was surrendered with the army of northern Virginia in April, 1865. In 1873 he was elected attorney for the commonwealth of Accomack county; was presidential elector on the Blaine ticket in 1884; was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Browne, Thomas M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 19, 1829, in New Paris, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for the thirteenth judicial circuit of the state of Indiana from 1855 to 1861; was secretary of the state senate in 1861, and a state senator in 1863. He entered the union army as lieutenantcolonel, during the war of the rebellion, and was promoted to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He was United States attorney for the district of Indiana from 1869 to 1872; and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of the state in 1872. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a republican.