William Henry Browne

     FUNERAL OF GENERAL BROWNE.
  Remains of the Veteran to Be In-
     terred at Arlington Today.
 The funeral of General William Henry
Browne, the well-known Washingtonian,
and veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, who died last Saturday at
Charlestown, W.Va., where he was spend-
ing the summer with his wife, will be held
this morning at 11 o'clock at St. John's
Episcopal Church, corner of Sixteenth and
H Streets northwest. The commandary of
the District of Columbia, Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
of which General Browne was a prominent
member, will attend the services in full
uniform. Interment will occur at Arling-
ton.
 General Browne was well known in
Washington, where he had resided since
the war. During this time he attained
considerable reputation as a lawyer. His
particular specialty in the practice of law
was in trade-mark cases. He was the
author of an excellect treatise on the sub-
ject under the title of "Browne on Trade-
Marks." For the past seven years his
health has been delicate, but it was not
until two years ago that he began actually
to fail. His death was sudden and pain-
less.
 General Browne was well known in the
professional, political, and business life
of the capital. For several years he
served as a member of the Washington
School Board, and was the author of a
number of improvements in the public
educational system. He was for many
years a member of the Army and Navy
Club. He was also a member of the Dis-
trict Bar Association, and at one time
commander of Columbia Commandery
Kights Templar, of which President Gar-
field was also a member, and he accom-
panied the commandery when it acted as
an escort for the body of the dead Presi-
dent when he was taken to Cleveland from
Washington after his assassination. He
was active in the Grand Army of the Republic
having belonged to John A. Raw-
lings Post. He was also a member of two
secret societies, the Scottish Rite Masons
and Lafayette Lodge, F.A. and A.M.
General Browne always took an active
interest in religious affairs. He was a
member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. At Epiphany Church for a num-
ber of years he taught a large Bible class
of young men. He assisted in the found-
ing of St. Andrew's.
 General Browne was of English de-
scent. His father was an officer of the
English army, as was his grandfather.
He resigned from the royal service in
order that he might be able to provide a
more settled home for his family. He had
studied law before entering the army, and
thought that the United States would be
a good field for him. Consequently he
came to New York. General Winfield Scott
was a warm personal friend of the family,
and when the war with Mexico broke out
and the spirit of warfare engendered by
the boy's ancestors began to manifest it-
self, General Scott secured a commission
as second lieutenant for William Henry
Browne who was by then but eighteen years
old. He fought in all the principal battles
of that war and distinguished himself by
gallant conduct on several occasions.
 After the Mexican war he returned to
New York and studied law, in the prac-
tice of which he afterward engaged. Be-
fore he was thirty years old he became
prominent in politics and was a candidate
for several municipal offices. When the
civil war opened he left a lucrative prac-
tice and raised at his own expense a
number of companies of troops and went
to the front as lieutenant colonel of the
Thirty-first New York Volunteers. He
was soon promoted to the colonelcy of an-
other regiment and at the second Fred-
ericksburg battle he was in command of
a brigade, and was wounded severely.
This was the wound that affected his
health in after life. From that time until 
the end of the war he was an officer in
the reserve force. After the war he re-
ceived the brevet rank of brigadier general.
For a time he was a resident of Baltimore
and held a number of important public
trusts. Then he removed to Washington,
where he biuilt up a lucrative prac-
tice. He leaves a wife but no children.