Edward Browne of Chicago and Lake Bluff: Blue Books, lumber trade and court records, 1899-1928

Contemporary mentions of Edward and Ella Browne, read in archive.org full texts (research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md):

• Chicago Blue Book, 1899 (215 Sixty-first St.) and 1904 (366 49th St.): “Mr. & Mrs. Edward Browne” and “Dr. Marvin Chapin” at the same address, with no daughter listed. 1912: “LAKE BLUFF WOMANS CLUB — Pres., Mrs. Edward Browne.”
• American Lumberman, 1899-1901: “EDWARD BROWNE, 1106 Chamber of Commerce, CHICAGO … Michigan Pine Lumber.”
• Chicago: Pre-eminently a Presbyterian City (1907): “Mr. Edward Browne, president of the Edward Browne Lumber Co., is an elder in the Second church.”
• Reports of Cases … Appellate Courts of Illinois (1905): a suit by “Edward Browne, Robert L. Chapin, William P. Gary and Arthur C. Lombard, co-partners, doing business as Browne-Chapin Lumber Company”; “Edward Browne was adjudged a bankrupt.”
• Washington Post, 11 Mar 1928 (AP, Miami): “The oldest graduate was Mrs. Edward Browne, of Lake Bluff, Ills., who was in the class of 1869, after having entered the institution in 1865, the year it was founded by Mathew Vassar.” The Vassar Alumnae Register (1957) has “Chapin Ella P x69 (Mrs Edward Browne)”, the x marking one who did not take the degree.