Background
Browne, Robert H. was born in August 1835 in New York, United States. Son of Nimmo and Agnes (Steven) Browne.
Browne, Robert H. was born in August 1835 in New York, United States. Son of Nimmo and Agnes (Steven) Browne.
Educated schools and academic to 1852. Graduate Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1868. Also read law with Davis, Gridley & Lincoln, Bloomington, Illinois.
Assistant surgeon 25th Illinois vols., 1861. Acting assistant surgeon United States of America and surgeon 2d Tennessee to close of war. After war practiced medicine at Kirksville, Missouri, until 1894.
Since then at Wichita, Kansas. State senator, Missouri, 1870-1874. In public life in Missouri to 1892.
Was abolitionist with Lovejoy. Afterward liberal Republican and Independent. Active in G.A.R.; post commander Kirksville, Missouri.
Department inspector Missouri, 1887-1889. Author: Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, 1901 M25. Address: Wichita, Kansas.
Married Isabel Graham, Champaign, Illinois.