WILLIAM WESLEY BROWNING, editor of the Brown County Democrat, was born in Lawrence County, Ind. , July 1, 1831, and is the eldest of the nine children of Amasa and Mary (Winfrey) Browning, natives of Tennessee, and of English extraction. W. W. Browning was reared to farming, and attended the public schools, from which he learned sufficient to become a teacher. After his majority, he was engaged in mercantile business at Heltonville and at Smithville for about four years.
In 1855-56, he studied law under ex-Gov. Paris Dunning, of Bloomington; then removed to Bedford, practiced one year, and March 4, 1858, came to Nashville. Was a partner with Hon. James G. Hester, who was elected Judge in 1873. Mr. Browning continued the law until November 1, 1883, when he began work in the Clerk's office of this county. June 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Indiana Regiment; was through the Missouri campaign, took typhoid fever and came home. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted 500 men, and was elected Captain of Company D, in the Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was injured by an exploding shell, at the battle of Resaca, soon after which he resigned. In 1870, he was elected Representative of this and Jackson County in the General Assembly, and was tendered the same in 1872, but refused. He has been a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church sixteen years, for four of which he Was an itinerant. He is now Deputy Clerk and editor of the Democrat. Mr. Browning has been twice married, his first wife being Lucinda Dayton, he wedded who died April 23, 1878, leaving one child. July 1, 178,e Martha M. Atkins.
Mr. Browning was Prosecuting Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District in 1874.
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In 1855-56, he studied law under ex-Gov. Paris Dunning, of Bloomington; then removed to Bedford, practiced one year, and March 4, 1858, came to Nashville. Was a partner with Hon. James G. Hester, who was elected Judge in 1873. Mr. Browning continued the law until November 1, 1883, when he began work in the Clerk's office of this county. June 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Indiana Regiment; was through the Missouri campaign, took typhoid fever and came home. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted 500 men, and was elected Captain of Company D, in the Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was injured by an exploding shell, at the battle of Resaca, soon after which he resigned. In 1870, he was elected Representative of this and Jackson County in the General Assembly, and was tendered the same in 1872, but refused. He has been a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church sixteen years, for four of which he Was an itinerant. He is now Deputy Clerk and editor of the Democrat. Mr. Browning has been twice married, his first wife being Lucinda Dayton, he wedded who died April 23, 1878, leaving one child. July 1, 178,e Martha M. Atkins.
Mr. Browning was Prosecuting Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District in 1874.
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WILLIAM WESLEY BROWNING, editor of the Brown County Democrat, was born in Lawrence County, Ind. , July 1, 1831, and is the eldest of the nine children of Amasa and Mary (Winfrey) Browning, natives of Tennessee, and of English extraction. W. W. Browning was reared to farming, and attended the public schools, from which he learned sufficient to become a teacher. After his majority, he was engaged in mercantile business at Heltonville and at Smithville for about four years.
In 1855-56, he studied law under ex-Gov. Paris Dunning, of Bloomington; then removed to Bedford, practiced one year, and March 4, 1858, came to Nashville. Was a partner with Hon. James G. Hester, who was elected Judge in 1873. Mr. Browning continued the law until November 1, 1883, when he began work in the Clerk's office of this county. June 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Indiana Regiment; was through the Missouri campaign, took typhoid fever and came home. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted 500 men, and was elected Captain of Company D, in the Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was injured by an exploding shell, at the battle of Resaca, soon after which he resigned. In 1870, he was elected Representative of this and Jackson County in the General Assembly, and was tendered the same in 1872, but refused. He has been a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church sixteen years, for four of which he Was an itinerant. He is now Deputy Clerk and editor of the Democrat. Mr. Browning has been twice married, his first wife being Lucinda Dayton, he wedded who died April 23, 1878, leaving one child. July 1, 178,e Martha M. Atkins.
Mr. Browning was Prosecuting Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District in 1874.
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In 1855-56, he studied law under ex-Gov. Paris Dunning, of Bloomington; then removed to Bedford, practiced one year, and March 4, 1858, came to Nashville. Was a partner with Hon. James G. Hester, who was elected Judge in 1873. Mr. Browning continued the law until November 1, 1883, when he began work in the Clerk's office of this county. June 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Indiana Regiment; was through the Missouri campaign, took typhoid fever and came home. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted 500 men, and was elected Captain of Company D, in the Eighty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was injured by an exploding shell, at the battle of Resaca, soon after which he resigned. In 1870, he was elected Representative of this and Jackson County in the General Assembly, and was tendered the same in 1872, but refused. He has been a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church sixteen years, for four of which he Was an itinerant. He is now Deputy Clerk and editor of the Democrat. Mr. Browning has been twice married, his first wife being Lucinda Dayton, he wedded who died April 23, 1878, leaving one child. July 1, 178,e Martha M. Atkins.
Mr. Browning was Prosecuting Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District in 1874.
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As Captain of Co. C. 82 Regiment, IND VOLS, as Prosecuting Attorney, and two terms as a member of the Ind. House of Representatives, he was both patriotic and faithful to every public trust. (Masonic Emblem)
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