George Emmett Browning
Mayor of Ogden, Utah 1926-1927
Postmaster of Ogden, Utah 1918-1921
Manager of Browning Arms Company 1890s-1916, originally hired by brothers John Moses Browning and Matthew Sandefur Browning along with three other siblings in 1880.

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George Emmett Browning in the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia
Name: George Emmett Browning
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1866
Father: Jonathan Browning
Mother: Ann Emmett

George Emmett Browning, Bishop of the Ogden Second Ward (Weber Stake), in Weber county, Utah, was born Aug. 1, 1866, in Ogden, Utah, the son of Jonathan Browning and Ann (Emmett) Browning. He was baptized Sept. 3, 1874; was educated and raised principally in the Ogden Second Ward; ordained a Deacon Feb. 13, 1883, and afterward presided over the Deacons' quorum in the Ogden Second Ward; ordained a Teacher Nov. 10, 1885, and presided over a Teachers' quorum; ordained a Priest Nov. 23, 1886; ordained an Elder Jan. 17, 1887; ordained a Seventy April 20, 1890, and subsequently (Oct. 11th) 1908, set apart as a president of the 76th quorum of Seventy.

Afterward, he acted as president of the 160th quorum of Seventy. Bro. Browning received an ordinary education in the common schools and afterward studied in the High School in Ogden.

In 1890 he was called on a mission to Samoa. Being set apart for that mission on Nov. 11, 1890, he left home two days later; he labored on the island of Savaii and afterward on Upolu, and finally presided over the Samoan mission from Feb. 4, 1892, to Nov. 8, 1893.

He returned home on Nov. 27, 1893. Before leaving on this mission Bro. Browning had labored diligently in the Ogden Second Ward Sunday School and Y. M. M. I. A. and also acted on the Y. M. M. I. A. Stake Board.

After his return from his mission, he labored as a home missionary, president of the Seventies, etc. He was ordained a High Priest on Feb. 15, 1916, and set apart to act as an alternate High Councilor in the Weber Stake, and he was ordained a Bishop on Oct. 15, 1917, by David O. McKay and set apart to preside over the Ogden Second Ward, succeeding the late Robert McQuarrie.

Bro. Browning married Marian Manning on Jan. 26, 1887, and located later in the Ogden Fifth Ward, but moved back into the Second Ward. His wife has borne him the following children: George Emmett, Vera, Marian, Harold L., Floyd Wallace and Roland S.

His son Harold has filled a mission to Great Britain, his son Wallace served in the U. S. Army in France, and his son George Emmett was commissioned first lieutenant and is now practicing medicine in New York.

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