History: BROWN, Samuel J 1881 HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
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Rev. Samuel J. Browne
History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford
pg 304
Submitted by Patti Graman
PMRHG@aol.com
                                       
        Rev. Samuel J. Browne was born at Honiton, England, in 1786, and
emigrated to this country in
1796 with his father, Rev. John W. Browne, who settled first at
Chillicothe, Ohio, and afterward, in
1798, at Cincinnati, and a few years later was drowned in the Little
Miami river while returning from
one of his appointments to preach in that neighborhood. His son, Samuel
J. Browne, learned the printing
business with Nathaniel Willis, and in 1804 started the Liberty Hall
newspaper, afterwards the
Cincinnati Gazette, and in 1824 the Cincinnati Emporium, afterwards the
first daily paper of large size
printed in Cincinnati. Through his instigation and pecuniary aid his son,
J. W. S. Browne, and his
son-in-law, L. S. Curtiss, originated and placed on a paying basis the
Cincinnati Daily Commercial. He
early perceived the growing tendencies of his adopted city, and was among
the first to show his faith by
frequent investments in real estate in the city and its suburbs. In 1830
he purchased the late Browne
homestead, consisting of twenty-five acres on the north side of the Miami
canal, opposite Baymiller
street, and erected thereon a fine residence which he occupied until his
death. 
        Mr. Browne was twice married. His first wife, a most estimable
and handsome English lady, was
wooed and won while Mr. Browne was on a visit to his brother in England,
and by whom he had seven
children, three of whom still survive. His second wife was a daughter of
the late Dr. E. A. Atlee, a lady 
of sweet disposition and most amiable character, by whom he had five
children, of whom three are still
living. Mr. Browne pursued a most active life, retaining both mental and
physical vigor to within a short
period of his death, which occurred in September, 1872, at the ripe old
age of eighty-five years.




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