Henry BROWNING(1267). Parents:
Caleb BROWNING and Alcy "Alice"
.Isaac
BROWNING(1266) was born in 1754.
Parents: Francis BROWNING Jr. and
Frances (Eman) NORMAN. Jacob
BROWNING was born in Apr 1730 in Culpepper Co, VA.
(494) He died in 1776 in Culpepper Co, VA.
(494) Parents: Francis BROWNING Sr. and
Elizabeth Carter LLOYD.He was married to Elizabeth BYWATERS in Apr 1758 in Culpepper Co, VA. (494) Children were: Samuel BROWNING, George BROWNING, Edmund BROWNING , Thomas BROWNING, Jacob BROWNING, Mary BROWNING, Edith BROWNING, Sarah BROWNING, Molly BROWNING, Elizabeth Jane BROWNING, Jenny BROWNING, Nelly BROWNING, Delila BROWNING.
Jacob
BROWNING(579) was born in 1769.
Was a Baptist minister. Parents: Jacob BROWNING
and Elizabeth BYWATERS. James
BROWNING was born on 19 Mar 1778 in Caswell Co, NC. He died on 18 Oct 1864
in Russell Co, Va. He has reference number 849. Buried in Copper Creek Cemetery,
Russell Co., Va. near their home. Source: "Early Settlers of Lee Co., VA
and adjacent Counties" Vol. 1 pg. 63-64. James was a lawyer and one of the
presiding Justices in Russell Co., VA. 1087-1820. Parents:
Francis BROWNING Capt. and Elizabeth VERMILLION
.He was married to Jane GIBSON in 1801 in Russell Co, Va. Children were: Francis BROWNING, Jessee BROWNING, John BROWNING, Archibald BROWNING, James C. BROWNING, William M. R. BROWNING, Josiah D. BROWNING, Liney BROWNING, Elizabeth BROWNING.
James
BROWNING was born in 1745. Parents: John BROWNING
and Elizabeth DEMAREST.James
BROWNING(1266) was born about 1748.
Parents: Francis BROWNING Jr. and
Frances (Eman) NORMAN. James
BROWNING(554) was born in 1768.
Parents: William BROWNING and
Mildred ROBERTS. James
BROWNING(554) was born in 1780.
Parents: William BROWNING and
Mildred ROBERTS. James
BROWNING(494) was born about 1706
in Caroline Co, VA. Parents: John BROWNING III and
Elizabeth ROSS. James
C. BROWNING was born about 1812 in Russell Co, Va. He has reference number
855. Parents: James BROWNING and
Jane GIBSON. James
Scott BROWNING was born after 1791.(1280)
Parents: Jesse Pope BROWNING and
Nancy VERMILLION. Jenney
(Jane) BROWNING(1267) was born about
1786.(1281) She died on 19 Apr 1855.
Parents: Caleb BROWNING and
Alcy "Alice".She was married to Andrew RAMSEY on 2 Jan 1811. Children were: James RAMSEY , Eliza RAMSEY, Alcy RAMSEY , Caleb RAMSEY, Alexander RAMSEY, Mary Ann RAMSEY, Henry Mason RAMSEY, Milia Jane RAMSEY, John RAMSEY, Martha Jane RAMSEY.
Jenny
BROWNING(579) was born in 1782.
Parents: Jacob BROWNING and
Elizabeth BYWATERS. Jesse
BROWNING was born after 1791.(1280)
Parents: Jesse Pope BROWNING and
Nancy VERMILLION. Jesse
Pope BROWNING(631) was born on 20
Oct 1775 in Caswell Co, NC. He died in 1811. Parents:
Francis BROWNING Capt. and Elizabeth VERMILLION
.He was married to Nancy VERMILLION in 1800 in Russell Co, Va. Children were: James Scott BROWNING , Jesse BROWNING, William BROWNING.
Jessee
BROWNING was born in 1806 in Russell Co, Va. He died in After 1860. He
has reference number 851. Parents: James BROWNING
and Jane GIBSON. John
BROWNING(1277) was born in 1728
in Culpepper Co, VA. He died in 1803 in Washington Co, NC. Alternate info says
December 1803, Culpeper county, Va. John Browing moved his family to Washington
Co., NC in 1768. He enrolled in the infantry in the French and Indian War; he
also served in the American Revolution.
See Laningham for source and documentation. John Browning served in the French and Indian War in 1756, and in the infantry in the Revolutionary War.
Service was as a private, foot soldier in Infantry of Culpeper county, Va.
From an Eastern Digital Resources Puzzle Piece collection a listing of possibly DAR applications in his name are Margaret Parker 373033, Della Parker 381615, Eunice Rivers 163731, Carrie Carter 222764, Mary Wallace 374612, Elizabeth Eastham 357683, Clara Roos 314532, Florence Bryan 191063, Elizabeth Farley 126237, Annie Crain 224559, Mary Kirgan 510544 and Fannie Tarver 76954. Parents: Francis BROWNING Sr. and Elizabeth Carter LLOYD .
He was married to Elizabeth DEMAREST in 1744. Children were: James BROWNING, Joshua BROWNING, Enos BROWNING, Francis BROWNING Capt., John Radford BROWNING , William BROWNING, George BROWNING, Eunice BROWNING, Daniel (David) BROWNING.
John
BROWNING was born on 2 Aug 1793 in Russell Co, Va. Parents:
Francis BROWNING Capt. and Elizabeth VERMILLION
.Children were: Vincent BROWNING, Elizabeth BROWNING, Mary "Polly" BROWNING , Eliza BROWNING, Nancy A. BROWNING, Catherine BROWNING, Charles M. BROWNING.
John
BROWNING II(494) was born in 1646
in Jamestown, Amelia Co, VA. Parents: William BROWNING
and UNKNOWN.He was married in 1665 in Jamestown, Amelia Co, VA. Children were: John BROWNING III .
John
BROWNING III(1277) was born in 1666
in Jamestown, Amelia Co, VA. Parents: John BROWNING
II.Children were: Francis BROWNING Sr..
He was married to Elizabeth ROSS. Children were: John BROWNING, James BROWNING , Thomas BROWNING, William BROWNING, Nicholas BROWNING.
John
BROWNING Capt.(1282)
(494) was born in 1588 in England. He died after 1635 in Browing Manor,
York Co., VA. Captain John Browning, immigrant ancestor, born in England, sailed
from Gravesend, England in the ship "Abigail" in 1621 and landed at
the "College Lands," later known as Jamestown, York Co., Virginia.
He finally settled in Elizabeth City. He was a prominent citizen and served
as Burgess in 1629 of Elizabeth City, and of Morris Bay in 1632, and again of
Elizabeth City, and/or Morris Bay in 1635. He purchased from Thomas Crinden
all his lands in Mounds Bay for three thousand pounds of tobacco. His manor
plantation was about three miles from Williamsburg and two miles from Jamestown.
Captain John Browning married in England about 1614, Elizabeth Dameron. Of the children born in England, William and George came with their father to America and Joseph came later on the ship "Thomas."
See Laningham for source document and all documentation. Parents: John BROWNING and Mary CODRINGTON.
He was married to Elizabeth DAMERON about 1614. Children were: William BROWNING, George BROWNING, Joseph BROWNING.
John
BROWNING was born in 1808 in Russell Co, Va. He has reference number 852.
Parents: James BROWNING and
Jane GIBSON. John
BROWNING Capt.(1266) was born on
16 Apr 1749 in Culpepper Co, VA. He died on 25 Sep 1818 in Culpepper Co, VA.
Alternate death date is 25 Sep 1813. Parents: Francis
BROWNING Jr. and Frances (Eman) NORMAN.He was married to Elizabeth STROTHER in Aug 1774.
John
BROWNING(554) was born in 1771.
Parents: William BROWNING and
Mildred ROBERTS.John
BROWNING(494) was born in 1440 in
England. Parents: William BROWNING.He was married to Margaret HARDING in 1465 in England. Children were: Richard BROWNING.
John
BROWNING(494) was born in 1370 in
England. Parents: John BROWNING and
Alice MALTRAVERS.He was married to Elinor FITZNICOLL in 1400. Children were: William BROWNING.
John
BROWNING(494) was born in 1493 in
England. Parents: Richard BROWNING and
Elizabeth PARSONS.He was married to Christine WEBB in 1515 in England. Children were: John BROWNING .
John
BROWNING(494) was born in 1519 in
England. Parents: John BROWNING and
Christine WEBB.He was married to Joan TOVEY about 1541 in England. Children were: John BROWNING .
John
BROWNING(494) was born in 1554 in
England. He died. Parents: John BROWNING and
Joan TOVEY.He was married to Mary CODRINGTON in 1580 in Gloucestershire, England. Children were: John BROWNING Capt..
John
BROWNING(1267) Parents:
Edmund BROWNING and Mary. John
BROWNING(494)He was married to Alice MALTRAVERS in 1364. Children were: John BROWNING.
John
BROWNING(494) was born in 1702.
Parents: John BROWNING III and
Elizabeth ROSS. John
A BROWNING(631) Parents:
Wilson BROWNING and Rebecca Ann ANDERSON.
John
Moses BROWNING(583) was born on 23
Jan 1855. He died in 1926. From the Deseret News Archives, Tuesday, February
20, 1996: "UTAH GUNSMITH'S INGENUITY WAS NO FLASH IN THE PAN" Eds.
note: This is part of a yearlong series of profiles of Utahns-noted and notorious-whose
lives are part of the state's fabric. This series will continue on Tuesdays
through the centennial year. By Twila Van Leer, Staff Writer.
John Moses Browning was 10, going on 11, when he created his first gun.
Using parts he found on the trash heap in his father's gun shop in Ogden, he concocted the firearm using an old smoothbore barrell with a stock hacked from a slab of wood with a hatchet. A piece of tin nailed to the stock served as the flashpan, mounted alongside the flashhole of the wired-on barrel.
Then he and his smaller brother went out to hunt, Matt swinging a perforated bucket to keep some coals alive. When they spotted a covey of sage hens, John jerked the homemade rifle up, shouting "Now!". Matt dipped a long stick into his coals, quickly ble a little flame into life and-narrowly missing John's ear in the process-attempted to touch off the powder-and-shot mixture in the flashpan. Nothing, But on the second try, when the explosion was over, one sage hen was dead, two hens were so disoriented that Matt could catch them, and John was "down hard on my hunkers".
The boys returned home triumphant, but expecting a second explosion from their father, Jonathan, who didn't look kindly on anyone taking things from his shop without permission.
The next morning, with Jonathan digging into a breakfast of sage hen pie, the boys faced the music. Looking over young John's jerry-rigged rifle, the crusty old pioneer of 1852 made his assessment. "John Mose, you're going on 11. Can't you make a better gun than that?"
So John did. Over a lifetime devoted to improving firearms, he obtained 128 patents for 80 new models and improvements. His guns ranged from .22-caliber to 47-millimeter. Through four wars--Spanish-American, World Wars I and II and the Korean episode--millions of American fighting men carried a Browning firearm into battle. Thousands of sports gunment did and do carry guns bearing his name. At his death in 1926, John M. Browning had contributed more to the advancement of firearms than anyone to that date, and probably since.
His inventive genius probably was a heritage from his father, an early Mormon pioneer who set up gun shops in several Midwestern locations as the Saints were hounded from community to community. One of his assignments was to make guns, such as slide repeating and cylinder repeating rifles, for pioneers gprparing to go West. As the main body of the LDS Church set out for the Great Basin, Browning stayed in Iowa for several years to help outfit others.
John Moses was born on a crisp winder morning, January 23, 1855, when Ogden had about 1500 pioneering residents.
Jonathan spent considerable time away from home helping in the settlement of the frontier community. He had his boys working in his gun shop when they were very small. Young John "cut his teeth on a rifle" and was happiest when tinkering around the shop.
For a time, the Brownings operated a tannery, and young John had the job of keeping the family horse, "Old Button", travelling in a circle to power the tannery machinery. Occasionally, the young rider would go to sleep and the horse would halt, bringing industry to a standstill. When his mother objected that the work was too hard for a 7-year-old, his father relented and let him go to school for a while. He continued to study sporadically, in the usual pioneer pattern, until he was 15, when the teacher admitted that the boy know more than the instructor. He could recite the names of the parts of a gun mechanism before he could recite the alphabet, according to a biography, "John M. Browning, American Gunmaker".
When he was 23, the young man made his first commercially successful gun, the Winchester Single Shot Model 1885. How an inventor in the relative obscurity of Ogden, Utah Territory, came to be associated with the famed gun manufacturer is the beginning of the Browning success story.
Winchester salesman Andrew McCausland was traveling in the West in 1883 when he happened upon one of the Browning rifles, marked with a Browning Bros. title and serial number 463. McCausland bought it from the owner for $15 and sent it to the Winchester factory in the East. The rifle created such a stir at the plant that within a week, T.G. Bennett, vice president and general manager, was en route to Ogden with the board's permission to buy all the rights to the gun.
When Bennett walked into the Browining factory, (touted as "the largest gun shop between Omaha and the Pacific Coast"), one of the several Brownings at work making guns advised him, "That's him. Third vise down". A business relationship lasting 19 years and making Browning a significant name in the gun industry was about to be born.
Winchester bought the rights to Browning's gun for $8,000, considerably less than Bennett had been authorized to pay, but "a very big $8,000" from Browning's viewpoint. A raw frontiersman from a business perspective, Browning asked for no royalties and received none.
His ignorance of business almost got him in trouble when he continued to create and sell the rifle after entering the deal with Winchester. A sharply toned letter from the company gave him a quick education inthat aspect of business.
The first time Browning actually saw his rifle as produced by Winchester was in a store window in Georgia, when he was serving an LDS mission. He and his companion rushed into the store, and young John was demonstrating the mechanism with a hand moved by intimate acquaintance before the shopkeeper knew what was happening. He quickly took the firearm from Browning and returned it to the store window.
For the rest of his life, Browning was continuously working on a new model or a refinement of one already in use. His style was casual. He made no blueprints and often made notes on bits of paper or empty cartridge boxes as ideas caught him in midstep. He seldom used his micrometer to make the fine measurements needed to fit delicate gun mechanism. Often, he was found rooting through the junk pile for a "little piece about this size and shaped like this".
Asked in later years how he did it, Browning said, "I found a good starting place, a fixed point--like the North Star, for example--from which I could make exact calculations. Then I calculated".
Winchester bought the patents for 44 of Browning's guns. Some were never produced, but the manufacturer didn't want them in the hands of competitors. When the relationship ended, Browning became associated with Fabrique Nationale in Belgium, a company with a long history in arms-making.
During the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Colt Peacemaker Model 1895 was credited with saving the foreign legions in Peking. It was in use in France again at the beginning of World War I.
At the outset of the latter war, Browning made a significant contribution to America's military, selling the government one of his latest weapons for $750,000. On the open market, the gun would have earned an estimated $12.7M in royalties. His rationale: "If we (he and his brothers) were 15 or 20 years younger, we'd be over there in the mud".
A greateful Secretary of War Newton D. Baker sent a letter thanking Browning for "a very distinct service to this country in inventions (that) contributed to the strength and effectiveness of our armies".
Many honors have been accorded the Utah inventor, including having a portrait in the Inventors Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1914, King Albert of Belgium presented The Cross of Knighthood of the Order of Leopols to the tall, slim man from Ogden, titling him Sir John Moses Browning, Gunsmith. In 1952, in Liege, Belgium, a life-sized memorial plaque was unveiled, hailing Browning as the greatest firearm inventor the worlds has ever known.
At Thanksgiving time in 1926, Browning was in Belgium working on yet another gun, a superposed shotgun. It was his 61st and last trip across the Atlantic. While visiting tyhe Belgian plant, he became ill and within a short time was dead of a heart attack.
He once questioned his own compulsion to make guns that would shoot faster and further. If the effort was not really worthwhile,he siad, "then this progress we brag about is just a crazy, blind racing past the things we are looking for and haven't the sense to recognize. And in the matter of guns, that makes me crazier than most".
1995 Deseret News Publishing Co. Provided by Elaine Johnson. Parents: Jonathon BROWNING and Elizabeth Caroline Wier CLARK .
John
Radford BROWNING(554) was born on
17 May 1757 in Culpepper Co, VA.(1279)
He died in 1844 in Arkadelphia, Clark Co, Ar.
(1279) Served under Captain Charles Browning, Culpepper County, Va
as a Private in Rev War. It appears that three ladies have joined the DAR under
his service: Ann Marshall 484316, George Randolf 471658 and Margaret Smith 471656.
Parents: John BROWNING and
Elizabeth DEMAREST.He was married to Nancy PEOPLES (PEEBLES) in 1790 in Virginia. Children were: Daniel BROWNING, Betsy BROWNING, Nathan Peebles BROWNING, David BROWNING, Francis John BROWNING, William Frederick BROWNING , Radford BROWNING, Martha BROWNING, Nancy Peebles BROWNING, Simpson BROWNING, John Vincent BROWNING, Polly BROWNING, Lucy Ann BROWNING, Didemia BROWNING, Pamelia BROWNING, Joseph A BROWNING.
He was married to E CULBERTSON in 1780 in Virginia.
John
Vincent BROWNING(554) was born in
1808. Parents: John Radford BROWNING and
Nancy PEOPLES (PEEBLES).He was married to Eunice FERREL in 1834.
Jonathon
BROWNING(583) was born in Sumner
Co, TN. Parents: Edmund BROWNING and
Sarah ALLEN.Children were: John Moses BROWNING .
Joseph
BROWNING was born about 1615 in England. He died in , VA. Parents:
John BROWNING Capt. and Elizabeth DAMERON.
Joseph
A BROWNING(554) was born in 1818.
Parents: John Radford BROWNING and
Nancy PEOPLES (PEEBLES). Joshua
BROWNING was born in 1746. Parents: John BROWNING
and Elizabeth DEMAREST.Joshua
BROWNING(1267). Parents:
Edmund BROWNING and Mary.Josiah
D. BROWNING was born on 14 May 1819 in Russell Co, Va. He died in 1893.
He has reference number 857. Parents: James BROWNING
and Jane GIBSON. Liney
BROWNING was born about 1821 in Russell Co, Va. He has reference number
858. Parents: James BROWNING and
Jane GIBSON. Lucy
BROWNING(554) was born in 1775.
Parents: William BROWNING and
Mildred ROBERTS.Lucy
BROWNING(1267). Parents:
Caleb BROWNING and Alcy "Alice".
Lucy
Ann BROWNING(554) was born on 23
Sep 1813. Parents: John Radford BROWNING and
Nancy PEOPLES (PEEBLES).Margaret
BROWNING(554) was born in 1778.
Parents: William BROWNING and
Mildred ROBERTS.Margaret
"Peggy" BROWNING(631).
Parents: Wilson BROWNING and
Rebecca Ann ANDERSON.Martha
BROWNING(554) was born on 1 Jun 1804.
Parents: John Radford BROWNING and
Nancy PEOPLES (PEEBLES).
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