1882 History of Linn County, Missouri

BIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM BROWNING                                                             Enterprise  Township: 803

      This gentleman is the son of Francis and Jennette (Alexander) Browning, and was born in Russell county, Virginia, April 17, 1820.  He received his education at Abingdon College, and continued to reside with his parents till their death, when he was about sixteen years old.  Soon after this, although barely in his seventeenth year, he took charge of a wool-carding machine and saw-mill, and ran them till he was thirty-five years of age.  He was married on the twenty-first of April, 1842, to Miss Rebecca Fuller, a daughter of Isiah and Mary (Burk) Fuller, and she was born in Russell county, Virginia, on the first of September, 1823.  Mr. Browning came to Missouri in 1855, and bought a farm in Linn county, where he has since resided.  He owns one hundred and twenty acres in Enterprise township, on which he and his family still reside.  His place is all under cultivation, and is in good fix as a comfortable home.  Mr. and Mrs. Browning are the parents of eleven children, seven of whom are still living.  One son and two daughters still live with their father.  John Marion Browning, who is still with his parents, was born January 14, 1858, in Sullivan county, this State, and received his education in the common schools.  He is a young gentleman endowed with fine business qualifications, and will, doubtless, achieve success in life.  Mrs. Browning is a member of the Methodist Church, and marched forward in the cause of Christianity for over thirty years.  Mr. Browning may well be proud of his family, and of the fair reputation he has built up as an upright citizen and faithful man.

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