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BROWN, William Montgomery, fifth bishop of Arkansas and 186th in succession in the American episcopate, was born near Orrville, Wayne county, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1855; son of Joseph Morrison and Lucina (Case) Brown. He was educated at Cleveland, Ohio, Faribault, Minn., and Gambier, Ohio, and was ordained deacon, June 17, 1883, and priest May 29, 1884. He had charge of Grace church, Galion, Ohio, 1883–’91, and also established and built up seven adjacent missions and became in 1891 general missionary and archdeacon of the diocese of Ohio. He was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Arkansas, June 24, 1898, by Bishops McLaren, Whitehead, Vincent, Atwill, Seymour, Leonard, Hale and White, and, on the death of Bishop Pierce, Sept. 5, 1899, succeeded to the bishopric. He received the degree of D.D. from Kenyon college and from the University of the South in 1898. He is the author of “The Church 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 Pennsylvania 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 representative in the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883–’87. He received the degree LL.D. from Alfred university in 1896. 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 grandson 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 attended the Salem high school and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856, and at Heidelberg, Ph.D., 1855. He studied law with John A. Andrew and at Dane law school, and was admitted to the bar; represented the N.Y. Tribune in the Utah expedition, 1859; was private secretary to Gov. John A. Andrew of Massachusetts, 1861–’65; reporter to the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, 1867–’74, and an editor on the N.Y. Evening Post, 1873–’74, and on the N.Y. Herald, 1876–’87. He was indicted for murder in connection with the attempt to rescue Anthony Burns, in company with Theodore Parker and Col. Thomas Wentworth 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 died in Boston, Mass., 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-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 cavalry 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 University of Maryland in 1867, and after hospital practice engaged in the treatment of female 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 gynæcology and obstetrics in the Baltimore medical 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 gynæcology from 1881. His military record and noted ancestry gave him position in various historical and genealogical societies of Maryland.