Biographical Sketch of Millard F. Browne, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Millard F. Browne, local manager of Plank Iron Bank, for Dent Iron
Company, and postmaster of Eden Post office, also general merchant
at the bank, whose annual sales equal about $10,000 established the
store July 6, 1882, under the title of Sankey & Browne, and since 
about 1885 Mr. Browne has been sole owner and proprietor.  He has 
also been manager of the iron bank since November, 1887.  He was 
born in Washington County, MO., October 11, 1855, being the son of
Rev. Solomon and Mary Ann (Love) Browne, Rev. Solomon was born in
Virginia in 1799, Mary Ann in Missouri in 1819.  They were married
in Reynolds County, MO, in 1842, and settled in Washington County,
where he lived until 1873, when he moved to Salem.  He died there
February 18, 1888, at the age of eighty-nine.  He was a Cumberland
Presbyterian minister for nearly forty years, and delivered his 
last sermon a few months before he died.  He was married three times,
the subject's mother being his last wife.  He was the father of 
twenty-one children, five by his first wife, seven by the second and
nine by the last.  He lived in Missouri for nearly sixty years; was
a very prominent divine, and became well known throughout Southeast
Missouri.  His father was a Scotchman, a Revolutionary soldier, and
died in Kentucky.  Mrs. Mary Ann (Love) Browne died in Salem in 
September, 1877, and was first a member of the Baptist Church, but
afterward joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Her father,
Judge William C. Love, was an early settler in Reynolds County, and
is now living in Iron County, nearly one hundred years old.  He was 
a farmer by occupation, was in the Mexican War, and was presiding 
judge of Reynolds County Court for many years.  Millard F. Browne was
the sixth of nine children, and received his education in the common
country schools, and his parents afterward moved to Salem, where he
attended the schools there for two years, giving Prof. Linch his note
at 10 per cent., which he paid with money earned afterward.  He taught
two terms of school, one during vacation and one after finishing school.
He then began as weighmaster for Dent Iron Company, in Phelps County,
and about twelve months after he was made manager of the Clinton Bank,
in Phelps County, where he remained until he came to Plank Bank, and
where he assumed the duties as above stated.  He was married April 30,
1882, to Miss Maggie Ann McGinnis, daughter of Hugh and Mary McGinnis,
natives of Ireland, who came to the United States when young.  The 
father died in Crawford County, but the mother is still living.  To
Mr. and Mrs. Browne were born three children.  Mr. Browne is a member
of the A.O.U.W., a member of the Masonic fraternity, the I.O.O.F., and
has been postmaster of Eden for the past fifteen months.  He is a
Democrat in his political views, and his first presidential vote was
cast for S.J. Tilden, in 1876.

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