Background
Browning, Philip Embury was born on September 9, 1866 in Rhinebeck, New York, United States. Son of William Garretson and Susanna Rebecca (Webb) Browning.
Browning, Philip Embury was born on September 9, 1866 in Rhinebeck, New York, United States. Son of William Garretson and Susanna Rebecca (Webb) Browning.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1889, Doctor of Philosophy, 1892. University of Munich, 1893-1894, also the Sorbonne (Paris), 1913-1914.
Assistant in chemistry, 1889-1893, instructor, 1894-1898, assistant professor, 1898-1929, associate professor and curator of chemical exhibit, 1929-1932, later curator of chemical exhibit, Yale University.
Member New Haven City Council, 1900-1902, board of park commissioner, 1901-1902. Treasurer First Ecclesiastical Society in New Haven (founded 1638), 1916-1930 and since 1931.
Married Elizabeth Sophia Bradley, December 12, 1899.