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BROWN.BROWNE. BROWN, VViliiam Montgomery, fifth bishop of Arkansas and 18tli in sucvession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born near Orrville. Wayne couuty. Ohio, Nov. 6, 1855; son of Joseph Morri- son and Lucina (Casey) Brown. He was edu- cated at Cleveland, Ohio, Faribault, Minn., and Gainbier. Ohio, and was ordained deacon, June 17, 1883, and priest May 22, 1884. He had charge of Grace church. Galion. Ohio, 1883-'91, and also established and bnilt up seven adjacent missions and became in 1891 general missionary and arch- deacon of the diocese of Ohio. He was conse- crated bishop coadjutor of Arkansas, June 24, 1898, by Bisliops McLaren, Whitehead, Vincent, Atwill, Seymour. Leonard. Hale and AVhite, and on the death of Bishop Pierce. Sept. 5, 1899, suc- ceeded to tlic bishopric. He received the degree of D.D. from Kenyon college and from the Uni- versity of the Soutli in 1898. He is the author of "Tlie Cluircli for Americans."

BROWN, William Wallace, representative, was born at Summer Hill, N. Y., April, 22, 1836; son of Rasselas Wilcox and Mary (Brownell) Brown. He was graduated at Alfred university in 1861; served during the Civil war, in the New York volunteers and Pennsjivania rifles, 1861-"65, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1866. He became district attorney of McKean county, Pa., in 1867; served as a representative in the state legislature, 1872-'76, and as a Republican re- presentative in the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883-'87. He received the degree LL.D. from Alfred university in 1886. He was auditor of the U.S. war department, 1897-99, and of the U.S. navy department from 1899.

BROWNE, Albert Gallatin, lawyer, was born in Salem. Mass., Feb. 14, 1835; son of Albert Gallatin and Sarah S. (Cox) Browne; and grand- son of James Browne and of Benjamin Cox. His first paternal ancestor in America, Elder John Browne, was ruling elder of the first church in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, appointed in 1660 by the Rev. John Higginson. Albert at- tended the Salem higii school and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1853, A.M., 18.56, and at Heidel- burg, Ph.D., 1855. He studied law with John A. Andrew and at Dane law school, and was ad-

mitted to tiie bar; represented the N. Y. Tribune, in the Utah expedition, 1859; was private secre- tary to Gov. John A. Andrew of Massachusetts, 1861-'65; reporter to^the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts. 1867-'74, and a« editor on the N.Y. Evening Post, 1874-75, and on the N.Y. Herald, 1876-87. He was indicted for murder in connection witii the attempt to rescue Anthony Burns, in company with Theodore Parker and Col. Thomas Wentwortli Higginson. He was a member of the Century association, New York, and of the Union and St. Botolph clubs, Boston, Mass. He was married June 27, 1867, to Mattie Griffith of Kentucky. He is the author of "Memoir of John White Browne" (1860); "Sketch of John A. Andrew" (1868) and 18 vols, of the " ^Massachusetts Law Reports." He die;l in Boston, IMass.. June 24. 1891.

BROWNE, Bennet Bernard, physician, was born in Wheatlands, Queen Anne's county, Md., June 16, 1842; son of Charles Cochrane and Mary Elizabeth (Willson) Browne, and great- great grandson of Charles and Priscilla (Brooke) Browne. His collegiate education was acquired at Loyola college, Baltimore. In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate army and served in the 7th Virginia cavalrj"- in the "Laurel" brigade and was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, and afterwards taken prisoner and confined in the old capitol prison, Washington. He was graduated at the medical school of the Universit}' of Maryland in 1867, and after hos- pital practice engaged in the treatment of fe- male diseases requiring surgical relief. He was notably successful, and introduced several new and effective methods of operating on certain stubborn diseases. He occupied the chair of gynaecology and obstetrics in the Baltimore med- ical college and in the Baltimore polyclinic and post-graduate medical school, and was elected president of the clinical society of Maryland. He was one of the incorporators of the Woman's medical college, Baltimore, and was professor of gynaecology from 1881. His military record and noted ancestry gave him position in vari- ous historical and genealogical societies of Maryland.