Sketch of Daniel F. J. Browning , St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Daniel F. J. Browning was a native of Kentucky, where he married a 
wealthy widow, from whom he afterward separated.  He was always an
unlucky man, and attributed his ill fortune to the fact that he once
volunteered to hang a negro.  The sheriff of the county where he 
lived, being averse to executing the criminal, offered $10 to any one
who would drive the cart from under him.  Browning accepted the offer,
and drove the cart from under the negro; but after that his life be-
came a burden to him.  He lost his property, separated from his wife,
and then came to Missouri, where he supported himself for several 
years by teaching school.  He taught in White's Fort, and at several
other places.  During the Slicker War he kept a ferry at Chain of 
Rocks, and was ordered by the Slickers not to put any anti-Slicker men
across the river at that place.  But he paid no attention to the order,
and a party of Slickers went to his house one night to lynch him; but
he heard them coming, and mounting his horse, swam the river and es-
caped.  Sometime afterwards a friend met him in Lincoln County, and in-
quired where he was going.  Browning pulled out a little pistol, about
two inches long and replied that he was "going to kill every damnded
Slicker he met".  But the places where he buried his dead have not been
discovered.

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