Los Angeles-San Bernardino County CA Archives Biographies.....Browne, John D. H. 1873 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

    THE REV. JOHN D. H. BROWNE was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and
educated at the grammar school, and by private tutors, and at Dalhousie College,
Halifax, and King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. He was ordained deacon in
1873, having been the gospeler of a class of six, and priest in the following
year, by Bishop Binney of Nova Scotia, and entered at once upon the duties of
the active ministry.

    In 1880 Mr. Browne, having been the rector of the important parish of
Dorchester, New Brunswick, was elected clerical secretary of the Diocese of Nova
Scotia, and was also editor and publisher of Church Work, a very largely
circulated monthly, and of The Church Guardian, published weekly, which soon
became the most largely circulated Church paper in Canada.

    Ill health forced Mr. Browne to give up his important positions in the East,
dispose of his papers, and remove to the Pacific Coast, in May, 1884, since
which time he has been in active service in Southern California, where he has
been successful in building a number of Churches, and in developing strong
centers of Church work and life in several places.

    Mr. Browne built the beautiful Church at Pomona in 1885; a Church and
rectory at Pasadena, in 1888; the Church at Covina in 1890; the Church in San
Bernardino in 1898; and has greatly enlarged and beautified the Church at Santa
Monica, where he now resides, and of which Parish he has been the Rector for
nearly nine years.

    Mr. Browne is a member of, and secretary to, the Standing Committee of the
Diocese of Los Angeles. He is also chairman of the Convention's Committee on
Church Charities, chairman of the Committee on the Episcopate Endowment Fund,
chairman of the Press Committee and chairman of the Committee on Work Among Seamen.

    In 1898 a Church paper for the Diocese was started and Mr. Browne was
elected by Convention its editor, since which time the Los Angeles Churchman has
been continued under his editorial management. This paper is now owned as well
as edited and published by him, and is successfully covering the field of Church
Journalism in Southern California.

    The Parish of St. Augustine-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, when Mr. Browne took
charge of it, reported twenty-seven communicants, while now it is in a very
nourishing condition, having grown to 203 communicants and having become the
seventh of all the Parishes and Missions of the Diocese.

    Mr. Browne finds time from his official duties to lend his aid to every
public matter having to do with the moral and material welfare of the city, and
in the Board of Trade and elsewhere has been a useful and enthusiastic citizen,
and a willing worker in advancing the general interests of the community.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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