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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
Obituaries
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Bruce, Mary A. October 18, 1936	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Bruce, William May 13, 1918	2K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Copeland, Mary E. August 14, 1915	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
George, Irene Belle December 20, 1918	3K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
George, Martha M. March 24, 1889	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
George, Rebecca Lyman June 20, 1919	2K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
George, Solomon June 21, 1884	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
George, William Leroy October 1882	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Haflich, Raymond August 18, 1016	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Haflick, Lois August 13, 1915	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Johns, Guy November 4, 1920	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Johns, Sylvester February 5, 1893	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Kinter, Eva Taylor May 6, 1943	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Leitzinger, John September 29, 1921	1K	Aug 2011	Lyle Hinz
Lightsinger, Conrad December 10, 1895	1K	Aug 2011	Lyle Hinz
Lightsinger, Mary November 5, 1926	2K	Aug 2011	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, Burtee April 4, 1877	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, Elmira November 12, 1878	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, Elvira May 7, 1907	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, George January 28, 1892	1K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, George January 28, 1892	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, Henry October 25, 1904	3K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, J. N. November 17, 1920	3K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, John February 1, 1878	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Lyman, Margaret Freeman March 26, 1911	1K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Martinowsky, Frank October 19, 1936	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, Elizabeth July 23, 1929	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, Elizabeth Cassidy July 21, 1918	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, Henry November 27, 1892	1K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, John March 10, 1878	1K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, Lewis David March 14, 1884	1K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, Michael April 17, 1903	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schmitt, Rose September 15, 1907	1K	Aug 2011	Lyle Hinz
Schorr, Margaret Schmitt March 14, 1895	1K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Schur (Schorr), John Adam March 3, 1881	1K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Smith, William February 3, 1889	2K	Apr 2010	Lyle Hinz
Steele, Ethel May Johns March 23, 1916	2K	May 2010	Lyle Hinz
Tyler, Augustus February 13, 1889	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Tyler, Harriet February 10, 1923	1K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
Tyler, John July 2, 1906	2K	Sep 2012	Lyle Hinz
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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