Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Laurel County

M.S. Browne, a prominent physician at Winchester, KY, is a native of Carter
County, Tenn., was born November 3, 1844, a son of Isaac and Ruth (Nave)
Browne, the former a prominent and well-to-do farmer in eastern Tennessee.
Mr. Ruth Browne, a native of Carter County, Tenn, was a daughter of Rev.
John Nave, who was a well known Primitive Baptist minister in the eastern
part of Tennessee, and died a few years since at the advanced age of
ninety-four.  M.S. Browne was reared in his native county and received a
good education at the best schools in that section of the country.  In 1861
he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in the Thirty-seventh
Tennessee Regiment participated in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro,
Vicksburg and many others; served in the Fifty-ninth Tennessee, and also the
Sixth North Carolina Cavalry.  At the close of the war he began the study of
medicine, and attended lectures in New York City.  He came to Kentucky and
began the practice of his profession at Mt. Olivet in 1867.  He completed
his medical education in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, where
he graduated with high honors in 1874; in 1875 he graduated in law at
Louisville, KY, (law department of the University of Louisville), and in
1876 located at Cassville, GA, where he engaged in farming in connection
with the practice of his profession; in 1883 he moved to Winchester, KY,
where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and
surgery, and is regarded as one of the most reliable practitioners in
Central Kentucky.  February 4, 1868, he married Miss Marietta Congleton,
daughter of Henry Congleton, of Nicholas County, KY.  Two children have been
born to this union, viz: Orra and Isaac.  Dr. Browne and children are
members of the Presbyterian Church.  Dr. Browne is a member of the F. &
A.M., and votes with the Democrats.  Mrs. Browne died April 30, 1886.

Browne Nave Congleton
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Carter-TN TN NY Nicholas-KY GA

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