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BROWN County is situated in the northeastern portion of Kansas, being located in the first tier of counties, from Nebraska. Doniphan County lies to the east, Atchison and Jackson counties to the south, and Nemaha County to the west._1.

Organized in 1855. County seat Hiawatha. After Albert G. Browne, of Mississippi, who had been Senator and member of the House of Representatives from that state, was United States Senator at the date of the Act organizing Kansas Territory, was relected for six years in 1859, but withdrew with Jefferson Davis on the secession of the Southern states._2.

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Curtis, Samuel 1857 -	7K	May 2007	Joy Fisher
Healy, Edward J. 1851 -	3K	Mar 2007	Joy Fisher
Hoffman, Henry	7K	Jul 2006	Lovena Norton
Yaussi, Rudolph 1851 -	4K	May 2007	Joy Fisher
Cemeteries
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Brown County Medical Directory 1920	4K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	1 K	Dec 1997	Kenneth Thomas
Photos of Documents
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
King, Samuel Death Certificate January 1, 1915	Image 165K	Dec 2007	Sally Toles

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