John Kittredge Browne
John Kittredge Browne was born on July 4, 1843, in Framingham, Massachusetts, to Joseph and Sarah Brown. His father was a farmer who owned $3,150 of real estate by 1850. He grew up and attended school in Framingham, and by 1860, he was working as a farmer. He graduated from Harvard University in 1869, and he received a Master’s degree from Harvard three years later. He also reportedly attended Andover Theological Seminary. He began working as a minister in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 1870s. He married Leila Kendall, and they had three daughters. He spent nearly four decades doing “missionary educational work” in Turkey for the Congregational Church Foreign Mission Board. He finally returned to America around 1912 and settled in San Francisco, California. There, he served as district secretary of the Foreign Mission Board for the Pacific states. By the late 1930s, he was living in Newton, Massachusetts. He died there on March 23, 1939.
Image: John K. Browne (The Boston Globe, 23 March 1939)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3195) | Browne, John Kittredge | 1843-07-04 | 1939-03-23 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (3788) [recipient] ~ William H. Brown to John K. Browne, 18 May 1862
People - Records: 1
- (3195) Browne, John Kittredge is the [sibling of] (3194) Brown, William H.
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, and 1920 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Birth Records, 1840-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Boston (MA) Evening Transcript, 26 June 1872; The Boston (MA) Globe, 23 March 1939
