Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Washington Co.

STEPHEN C. BROWNE (deceased).  Prominent among the active citizens and
successful business men of Washington County was Stephen C. Browne, a brief
sketch of whom is herewith given from a notice which appeared upon the
occasion of his death.  " Stephen C. Browne was born near Petersburg, Va.,
September 9, 1798.  William Browne and Elizabeth Cock, his parents, died a
few years after his birth.  He was left to the care of his maternal
grandmother, with whom he came to Kentucky as early as 1804.  He was
educated at Hampden Sydney College, Virginia, under the care of his uncle,
Samuel Booker, with whom he returned to Kentucky about the year 1815.  He
spent several years in the clerk's office at Springfield, transacting the
business of the circuit clerk.  The education obtained from these two
sources rendered him one of the most ready, accurate, and most useful
business men that the county has ever possessed.  His intimate acquaintance
with men and things of that day, both in Virginia and Kentucky, gave him a
vast amount of biographical and traditional history that proved of great
interest, and is not to found in books.  He was married to Miss Mary
Eleanor Davison, daughter of Elias and Maria (Ball) Davison, by whom he had
the following children: Mrs. Sarah J. Thompson, Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols,
William D., Elias B., Thomas R., Stephen E., John H., Beverly B., Mrs.
Susan Leachman, Mary E., and Mrs. Lucy Rogers.  Mrs. Browne was born in
Springfield, September 11, 1805, and died on the 3rd of December, 1867.
After a short absence in Union County Mr. Browne settled in Washington
County as a farmer, where by success as a farmer and stock raiser, he
showed himself second to no man in this part of the State.  He was an elder
in the Pleasant Grove (Presbyterian) Church from its foundation, and as an
elder, clerk of the sessions, and liberal contributor to the support of the
gospel, his services were invaluable to that congregation.  Few men did
more for the church, the school, and for the moral advancement of the
community, than Stephen C. Browne.. He died at his residence, six miles
north of Springfield, on the 15th of January, 1864, in the sixty-sixth year
of his age."

Browne Cock Booker Davison Ball Thompson Nichols Leachman Rogers
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Union-KY VA

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