Shelby County AlArchives Biographies.....Browne, William Bradford 1850 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM BRADFORD BROWNE, Attorney-at-law, was born in Philadelphia in 1853.
He obtained his education at Spring Hill College, near Mobile, and at the
University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He began the study of law in 1871 at
Montevallo, with Paul H. Lewis, and was admitted to the bar in 1873, at
Columbiana, where he has been practicing law ever since.

    His father, William P. Browne, was born in Vermont, in 1804, raised there,
and practiced law for about seven years. He took a contract, at an early day, to
construct a canal at New Orleans, and, after several years, completed it and
received a fair profit for his work. He then went to Mobile, whence he was sent
to the Legislature in 1846.

    While at Tuscaloosa, he met Miss Margaret Stevens, whom he afterward
married. In 1848, he moved to Shelby County, opened the Montevallo Coal Mines,
and operated them until his death in 1869. He was a man of great energy and
indomitable will.

    Of his seven children four are still living. One of them, Cecil Browne, of
Talladega, represents Talladega and Clay Counties in the State Senate. A
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Collins, is an actress, and is well known to theatre
going people us Florence Elmore. She has attained enviable distinction as a star.

    William B. Browne was married, in 1885, to Miss Lizzie, daughter of Samuel
15. Roper, of Columbiana.

    Mr. Browne and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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