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Gibson Browne
Lee County
Born at Prairie Road, near Kalamazoo, Michigan, on July 10, 1831, and was the son of David Browne, a prominent physician. He spent his boyhood days at his birthplace and was educated in the Kalamazoo schools. At the age of nineteen he enter the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he studied for one year. He then matriculated at the Ballston Law School of New York and graduated at the age of twenty-two. He was united in marriage June 6, 1855 to Miss Julia Abbott and together with his wife came to Keokuk in 1856. He represented Lee county in the 12th Iowa General Assembly, 1868. Mr. Brown had been a Mason for many years and with his usual tendency to get at the bottom of things had a high appreciation of the symbolism and teaching of that order, and its study gave him much pleasure.
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