"One of the last ties which bound the present with the beginnings of Cooperstown was broken at 5:40 o'clock, Friday morning of last week, when Mrs. Charlotte Prentiss Browning passed peacefully away in the apartment of her son-in-law and daughter, the Hon. and Mrs. Frank J. Loesch, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, where she made her winter home. Had she lived one more month, until March 15th, she would have celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday. At Easter time last year Mrs. Browning underwent an operation for appendicitis at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Her wonderful physical vitality carried her through the ordeal and she was able to spend the 1934 season at the Hawthornes, her summer home here, according to her usual custom. She remained until after Thanksgiving Day and then returned to Chicago for the winter months. Her condition was frail, however, and death resulted from complications following the attack. One of six children of Col. and Mrs. John Holmes Prentiss, Mrs. Browning came from distinguished pioneer stock. Her father was a member of Congress from 1837 to 1841 and a friend of President Martin Van Buren. Her paternal grandfather was Col. Samuel Prentiss, who commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War ... Surviving are the daughter mentioned, Mrs. May Browning Loesch, wife of the Hon. Frank J. Loesch of Chicago, head of the Chicago Crime commission and a member of the Wickersham commission for the study of crime in the United States; four grandchildren, Miss Margaret Browning Pierce of Cooperstown, associate agent of the Otsego County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Mrs. Henry McHarg of Ridgefield, Conn., Mrs. Edward Moffatt of Beverly Hills, Calif., Henry Carlton Pierce of Earlville, Ill., and six great-grandchildren ... Burial will be in the family plot in Lakewood cemetery."
["The Freeman's Journal" (Cooperstown, NY), Feb. 20, 1935, Pages 1-2]

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Kathryn Hill (#47225156)

Wife of Stephen Garretson Browning