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Note: (Source: Pleasant Hill Historical Society, news article dated October 27, 1944) Mr. and Mrs. Edmund A. Browne, Long Beach, Calif., coming here Tuesday from Rogers, Ark., where they had visited the former's brother, Wm. Browne, spent the day with Mr. Browne's sister, Mrs. Anna Edelen, and left that night by train for home. Mr. Brown has been nine years with the Christensen Auto Supply company, Long Beach, and this is his first vacation during that period.
(Source: Pleasant Hill Historical Society, news article dated August 1, 1946) For G. O. P. Presbyterians Former P. H. Man Proud of His Religion and Politics From the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Edmund A. Browne, 728 Lime Ave., has a half dollar coined by the United States in 1846, the year the Bear flag was raised at Sonoma proclaiming California's independence. Twenty-two years ago Browne was manager of a local branch of the old Marine Bank & Trust Company and the coin came in along the routine course of banking. It is as bright as the day it was minted. Browne, (formerly of Pleasant Hill) also prizes a guest card which admitted him to the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896, which nominated McKinley for President when he was pitted successfully against William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate. "The convention was held in a huge auditorium especially constructed to house the delegates. The seating capacity was 15,000." said Browne. "A spectacular incident was the walkout by Senators Teller of Colorado and Cannon of Utah, who could not agree to the plank in the platform pledging the party to the gold standard. They demanded a plank favoring a 16 to 1 silver ratio. The convention was stampeded when McKinley received the required two-thirds vote of the delegates on the vote of Ohio, his home state." Browne, now 77, says he always tells his friends who inquire as to the reason for his present good health and optimistic spirit that he has always voted the straight Republican ticket and has been a Presbyterian throughout his life.
(Source: Pleasant Hill Historical Society, news article dated September 5, 1946) A DETERMINED PRESBYTERIAN E. A. Browne, Long Beach, Began in P. H. in '85, Sticks To It. Edmund A. Browne, Long Beach, Calif. (brother of Mrs. H. B. Edelen, this city) who lived here in boyhood, recently received several copies of The Times through Lucien Stone, also an ex-Pleasant Hill man, who has been a subscriber to this paper "since the land knows when." Mr. Browne, ardent Republican, thereupon wrote The Times and somewhat twangs the political lyre, expressing his sentiments that the Democratic party "as now constituted," is on its way out, and admitting that time was when he wasn't very proud of the G. O. P. But he now has the feeling that the spots on the Republican party have been washed off. that the Democratic clan has the mange in sort of mutual way, and that therefore -- heigh-ho -- we shall have a Republican President come next national election. Far be it from "us Times Democrats" to enter into any argument with Edmund A. on that score -- for be it remembered time was when the Republicans did elect Presidents with (to Democrats) somewhat tiresome regularity -- so we'll switch the record to religion. Writes Mr. Browne: "Yes, I am indeed, proud of my record of being a very humble and unworthy member of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A. It was in good old Pleasant Hill, under the ministry of Dr. Chaney on the first Sunday in January, 1885, I was received into full membership, and never has my connection been, officially, with any other denomination, both of my grand parents and parents being of that faith, and after more than 60 years I am still standing firm under its banner." Incidentally, referring to Lucien Stone, Mr. Browne says the latter is in poor health and has recently been in a hospital in Pasadena. Lucien got in "on the ground floor" at Long Beach when that city began to expand and has grown wealthy there, being possessed of large realty holdings in the city and adjoining territory. While he has been in the hospital, his son, Marshall Stone, has been doing a capable job of looking after his father's business affairs.
(Source: Pleasant Hill Historical Society, news article dated August 26, 1948) PHOTO OF HISTORIC INTEREST Times Given Picture of Old "Stone College." Mr. and Mrs Edmund A. Browne, Long Beach, Calif., left yesterday after a brief visit here with Mr. Browne's sister, Mrs. Anna Edelen, going into Oklahoma to visit Mrs. Browne's people and then to go from that area to Rogers, Ark., to visit Mr. Browne's brother, Wm. Browne, then go home. Mr. Browne left with The Times an enlarged reproduction of a photograph taken here in 1884 of the old "stone college," along with the grouped students. It has been neatly framed and on the back are typed the names of people shown in the gathering. Mr. Browne, who has reached his 80s, is in seemingly good health, but is now retired and taking life easy. His father was the late Stephen Browne, Pleasant Hill, and he was reared here, but left early in life (in the 90s) and has long been a resident of California.
(Source: Pleasant Hill Historical Society, news article dated April 2, 1953) Edward A. Browne Former Pleasant Hill Man, 83, Dies in Long Beach, Calif. Mrs. H. B. Edelen was notified by telegram Friday of the death in Long Beach, Calif., the preceding day, of her brother, Edward Ansel Browne, 83, who had been ill of pneumonia five days. He died in a Long Beach hospital. Mr. Browne had only recently returned to his Long Beach home from Oklahoma City where he had taken the body of his wife, Mrs. Lula Browne, for burial. She died late in February. Services for Mr. Browne were held Saturday in Long Beach and burial was in Oklahoma City by his wife's side. In addition to Mrs. Edelen, he is survived by a brother, W. C. Browne of Rogers, Ark. Edward A. Browne was born April 14, 1869, in Perryville, Ky., son of S. E. and Margaret Browne, and came to Pleasant Hill with his parents when he was boy of about 10. He went to school here and as a young man clerked for two years in the J. D. Cooley grocery, then worked in the Citizens Bank two years before going to Kansas City. He was a bookkeeper in the city for some time before going to Oklahoma City, where he met his future wife, Mrs. Lula Dikeman. They were married Sept. 16, 1903, and lived in Oklahoma, then later in Colorado and finally moved to Long Beach in the late 30's. There he was bookkeeper for an automobile firm. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian church of Long Beach.
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