Edward Browne
Chicago lumber dealer in Michigan pine, president of the Edward Browne Lumber Co., who by the Chapin genealogy married Ella Chapin at Pentwater, Michigan, in 1875. Possibly the father of Henrietta Browne, who married Ralph A. Hatten, though that genealogy says he and Ella had no children. As the Ancestry tree has it, he was born in Antrim, Ireland, in 1850 and died at Lake Bluff, Illinois, in 1924.
Life
- 1850Born22 Jan 1850, Antrim, Irelandcompiledpossible
- 1875Married Ella Persis Chapin
- 1924Died28 Jun 1924, Lake Bluff, Lake, Illinoiscompiledpossible
Family
- Parents
- Spouse
- Ella Persis Chapincompiledprobable
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Husband of Ella Persis Chapin. A Chicago lumber dealer in Michigan pine, with an office in the Chamber of Commerce; president of the Edward Browne Lumber Co. and an elder of the Second Presbyterian Church (1907). With Ella’s brother Robert L. Chapin and two others he was a partner in the Browne-Chapin Lumber Co., and by 1905 he had been “adjudged a bankrupt.” Ella’s father, Dr. Marvin Chapin, lived with them in Chicago and at Lake Park, near Lake Forest, where he died in 1907; they were later at Lake Bluff (source, source). Nothing was found on his Irish origin; his dates are the tree’s.
The Chapin genealogy says he and Ella had no children; see Henrietta Browne.
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.