Denver County CO Archives News.....GENERAL SAMUEL BROWNE PIONEER LAWYER IS DEAD May 30, 1902
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The Denver Times May 30, 1902
GENERAL SAMUEL BROWNE,
PIONEER LAWYER, IS DEAD
Excellent Citizen, Who Was U.S. District
Attorney for Colorado is 1862, Dies
at the Age of Eighty.

	General Samul E. Browne, master of the Colorado Bar association and for 
almost forty years prominent in Colorado public life, died last evening at his 
late residence, 1344 South Fourteenth street, where he has resided for thirteen 
years past.  Heart trouble was the direct cause of death, superinduced by an 
attack of stomach trouble the first week of May.  Two weeks ago last Monday he 
celebrate his 80th birthday, and at that time was the recipient of 
congratulations of the district judges upon his long and honorable practice of 
the legal profession.  His vitality almost up to the time of his death was 
remarkable for one who had been so strenuously engaged in hi chosen work and 
weighted with heavy responsibility much of the time.  He engaged in active 
practice up to the time of his death, and one of his as was to appear before 
Judge Mullins just when suffering intensely to ask continuance of a case in 
which he had been retained as counsel.  He appeared twice in the West side 
court the same week.
	The Times of Sunday, May 11, contained a sketch of Mr. Browne's life, 
reviewing some of the more striking incidents with which he was identified in 
the history of the nation and state.  He was forn in Franklin county, 
Pennsylvania, May 12, 1822.  He graduated from Franklin institute and Marshall 
college, and in 1840 began teaching school and reading law.  He was admitted to 
the bar in 1845, and a year later removed to Ohio, where he became active in 
politics and was twice elected a member of the state legislature and attaining 
a state reputation as "Browne of Miami" for his aggressiveness in debate.  When 
the war broke out he became quartermaster of an Ohio regiment that was one of 
the first to cross the border into Virginia seeing much active service in the 
early conflicts between the armies of the North and South.
	Later he was appointed a captain in the Seventeenth regiment of the 
regular army, serving until disabled.  After recovering sufficiently to take 
the place, he was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury department to sign 
the $60,000,000 was issue of demand notes.  The constant writing caused severe 
cramps in the right hand that caused that member to become deformed 
permanently, and he never recovered fully the use of the arm.
	April 8, 1862, he was commissioned United States district attorney for 
Colorado and proceeded to this state immediately thereafter.  His duties were 
often arduous and always dangerous, for he was standing alone to enforce the 
law at a time when the region was overrun with desperate criminals.  Sessions 
of court were held at Central City, in the San Luis valley and at Buckskin Joe, 
near the present site of Fairplay.  Traveling about for these sessions, the 
court, district attorney and attaches were obliged to do so under an escort of 
troops.  Not only was there danger from prowling bands of murderous redskins, 
but white desperadoes would have too gladly seized any opportunity to make away 
with the whole contingent representative of the government and standing for law 
and order.  The vigor and persistence with which he prosecuted the lawless 
element had much to do with restoring a semblance of conservatism to the 
community and laying the foundation for the permanent structure of state.
	In the fall of 1864, when the Indians went on the warpath and drove 
setters from the valley of the Platte, almost overcoming the little band at the 
stage station of Julesburg and for a time practically closing communication 
between Denver and the East, it was General Browne who stirred the people to 
action and organized the First Colorado calvary, of which he was chosen the 
commander.  He took charge of the troops early in January, 1865, quartered his 
troops at Forts Lupton and Morgan, and spent the whole winter on the plains, 
actively directing his little body of troops in the gallant service-in 
protection of life, commerce and the future greatness of the state.  General 
Browne was always radical in his attitude on questions of moment and his hatred 
of the Indians became second nature.  In 1868, when the report reached 
Denver of the finding of the masacreed bodies of a woman and her child on 
Comanche creek and the bodies of the victims brought in Denver, he made an 
impassioned plea to run down the murderous savages and avenge the death of the 
two.  An expedition was formed which fully avenged the double crime.
	A widow and four children survive the deceased, Mrs. T.G. Putnam, 
Charles S. Browne, Mrs. Edwin M. Browne of this city and Clarence S. Browne of 
Colorado Springs.  The family home of 1344 South Fourteenth street was 
purchased thirteen years ago with money received for the sale of the two lots 
nearest Sixteenth street, on which the Equitable building was erected.  At one 
time General Browne was one of the heaviest realty owners in Denver and had a 
stable of fine horses.



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