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belonging to the Chapter, Commander~and Noble Maude, who died at the age of six years, and Wal-

Mystic Shrine. In 1568 he was married to Miss ter, aged eleven. Mrs. Browning is a member of

Alabama Harper, of Arkansas, by whom he has the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Browning's father

had eight children: Lnlu, Edgar, Oscar F., Ophe- was Wiley J. Browning, of South Carolina, who

lia, Garland H., Alphonse, Arthnr and CliffordB: married Sarah C. Sdby, of the same State. He

1Mr. and Mrs. Brewster are members of the Lake- . was a farmer by occupation and soon after his

side Methodist Episcopd Church, and are liberal marriage moved to Mississippi, engaging in the

iin their aid to all worthy enterprises.1 same business in connection with stock raising.

Dr. Samuel G. Brown~ngis one of the enter- At the breaking out of the late war he was a mer-

prising and deservedly popular men of this ( c h ~ n tin Winston Connty, Miss., but entered the
1county. He is a successful physician, is pro. Confederate service as private, and also served as

prietor of a general store at Macon. and w i L his qnartermnter He was slightly wounded in Ihe
brother and others owns oneof the largest saw mills i battle at Jackson, Miss., and died in 1877 a t the

'in the connty, tnrning out abont thirty car loads age of fifty-six. He was a Mason and a member

of pine and hard wood per month. I n 1888 the of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Browning's in-

destrnction of one of the mills and a dry house by , fluence in this community is widely felt, and his

/fire, entailed a severe loss, the latter having cost progressive spirit and sincere interest in the wel-

1over $2,000 and the mill $4,000; in addition to fare of his adopted home have had a telling effect.

which 82,000 worth of lumber was dest~vyed;and I All worthy enterprises receive his hearty support.

although they have been three times visited by 1 Dr. h a Bmnson, formerly a practicing physi-

fire, icdomitable energy and enterprise have more cian of wide and honored acquaintance, and now

than overcome the effects of the destroying ele- I one of the wealthy planters of this connty, was

Iments. Samuel G. Browning wm horn in Miss- horn in Tmneasee, near Clarksville, in 1522, being
iissippi in 1860,the second in a family of eleven the son of Jesse A. Brunson, an extensive manufac-

children. He received his literary educ~tionin the I turer of pig metal. The latter's father WRS Dr.

I'1common sohools of that Stab, and having deter- Asa Brunson, a snrgwn in the Revolutionary War,
who just before that event same tQ the United
mined upon the medical profmion as his calling States. When Jesse A. was about twelve years of
in life, in 1872 entered the Louisville Medical age. hi^ father moved to Tennessee, locating near
b l l e g e , commencing the practice of medicine at
Tillatoba, Miss., in 1876. I n 1859 he came to Clarksville, where he was engaged in planting and

Arkansas and located at Coal Hill, Johnson County, stock raising. He was a man of much property,

where he practiced for two years. He then en. of superior education, and decided intellect. Of

Igaged in milling near Rnssellvilla, Polk Connty, his four sons, all but one were physicians. The

for two years, when he sold out and removed to father of the subject of this sketch married Louisa

Johnson County, devoting himself to milling, cot- Shelby, of Tnnnessee, now deceased, who had nine

ton ginning and merchandising. At the end of children: Sarah, Asn, Elizabeth, Atherton, M. D.

two years he resumed the same bnsineus at Jeffer- (deceased), Penelope, Clark S., M. D. (deceased),

I son Springs, whence after a stay of two years, he Dr. Jesse (deceased), Thomas E., M. D. (who was
moved to his present loc~tion,where he has ularge assassinated while quietly reading a paper, being

mill, having been very sneee9sfd in his business. shot through hie window by an nuknown person),

I n 1888 Dr. Browning was elected justice of the and Dr. Randolph, of Pine Bluff. Young Asa

peace, and although a Democrat in his preferences, Brnnson attained his majority in Tnnnessee, sup-

he is not active in politics. He is a member of the plementing his literary ednoation with a course in

Masonic fraternity. I n 1877 the Dodor married medicine, and, in the spring of 1842, graduated

,Miss Georgie L. Simma, a native of Mississippi, from the medical department of the University of

and an estimable lady, who has borne twochildren: New York. The same year he located nenr his

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