Person:Charles Browning (28)

Biography of Charles Ross Browning

Charles Browning was born Jan 20, 1862 at Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey^[17]. He was the son of Ross C Browning and Katharine Hamilton. He was a 1883 graduate of Cornell University and a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and the football team^[7][16]. He was a retired president of the former Buckley New Hall Company and Mutual Trading Company, New York household furnishings merchandisers. He married Augusta Clark of Ithaca, New York on October 6, 1887. They lived in Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey where he had lived with his father since after the civil war. According to NJ City directories, Charles and Augusta purchased their home on Wildwood Way in Llewellyn Park sometime between 1891 and 1895.

Llewellyn Park

The following description of the Charles R Browning home on Wildwood Way by Henry Whittemore is described in detail:

"Mr. Browning and Agusta's home in Llewellyn Park was on Wildwood Avenue, near the entrance to Llewellyn Park. Most of the houses in the Park were built during the late 1800's when people looked more to the interior than exterior design and the architectural features were a matter of secondary consideration. His home, almost at the entrance of the Park was a building which, although modeled after the fifteenth century style, combines the latest improvements in architecture,. The foundation, which rises some two or three feet from the ground, is of rough-faced trap rock, quarried in this vicinity. The first story is of brick and above this the structure is formed in panels of stucco and wood, the whole surmounted by a pitch or Gothic roof. The interior, both in style and finish, is made to correspond with the exterior. The site selected for the building was well suited to the style of architecture and required no grading or additional tree planting. The smooth level lawn was left in pretty much the same condition as it was when the Park was laid out originally. A pretty bed of rhododendrons and azalias have been added to brighten the surroundings, and the shade trees which form the frame-work are a sufficient distance from the house not to obstruct the view or cause dampness in the interior"^[14].

He was an original member of the Essex Country Club. They had three girls, Katherine, Marjorie, and Dorothy. He was affectionately called "Bop" by family members.

Charles Browning Marriage Application

Charles Browning Marriage

Charles Ross Browning

Charles and Augusta Browning

Boyhood Home of Charles and Fred Browning, later owned by dauther Katharine Browning Campbell

1. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   M598_861.

   Browning, Ross C, Orange, New Jersey, Orange Ward 2
   Browning, Ross C, M W age 44, b. VT, Manufacturing Machinery, $40,000 real estate; Kate Browning, F W age 35, b. NJ, Frederick Browning, M W age 11, b. NJ; Charles Browning, M W age 8, b. NJ; two servants

2. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   T623_968, Page 20A.

   Browning, Charles R, West Orange, Essex, New Jersey, E. D. 184
   Browning, Charles R, M W age 37, b. NJ; Augusta Browning, F W age 36, b. NY; Catherine Browning, F W age 11, b. NJ; Margery Browning, F W age 9, b. NJ; Dorothy Browning, F W age 9, b. NJ; Leland Clark, M W age 20, b. NY, bro-in-law; three servants

3. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Page 260B.

   Browning, Ross C, West Orange, Essex, NJ, E. D. 113
   Browning, Ross C, M W age 57, b VT; Catharine H Browning, F W age 49, b. NJ; Fred'k J Browning, M W age 21. b NJ; Charles R Browning, M W age 18, b. NJ; Bertha Browning, F W age 8, b. NJ; 2 servants.

4. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p 23B.

   Browning, Charles R, West Orange, Essex, NJ, E. D. 225
   Browning, Charles R, M W age 48, b. NJ; Augusta C Browning, F W age 43, b. NY; Catharine Browning, F W age 20; Majorie Browning, F W age 19, b. NJ; Dorothy F Browning, F W age 15, b. NJ; 2 servants.

5. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   T625_1038.

   Browning, Charles R, Orange, Essex, New Jersey, E. D. 320
   Browning, Charles, R. M W age 57, b. NJ; Augusta E Browning, F W age 53, b. NY.

6. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   P 5A.

   Browning, Charles R, Orange, Essex, New Jersey, E. D. 631
   Browning, Charles, R. M W age 68, b. NJ; Augusta E Browning, F W age 69, b. NY; two servants

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Browning, Edward Franklin. Genealogy of the Brownings in America from 1621 to 1908. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965)
   p 366.

   Charles Ross Browning, son of Ross C Browning and Katharine Hamilton

8. ↑ New York Times Obituary
   p 11, col 5, 27 January 1945.

   Charles R Browning, January 26, 1945, husband of Augusta Clark Browning, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey.

9.   Tompkins County (New York). County Clerk. Marriage records, 1908-1935. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976)
   Reg #597.

   Charles R Browning and Augusta E Clark, 6 Oct 1887, Ithaca, Tompkins, NJ

10.   Find A Grave.

    Rosedale Cemetery,

11.   Charles R Browning, in Honeyman, A. Van Doren, and William Nelson. Calendar of New Jersey wills. (New Jersey, 1900-1931)
    5 Nov 1940.

    Book W, p 327, Book H31, p 73, Book F35, p 21

12. ↑ Essex, New Jersey, United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    T627_2341, p 1B, line 46.

    Chas R Browning, West Orange, Essex, New Jersey ED 7-386
    Char R Browning, M Age 78, Married, b. New Jersey, Real Estate Executive
    Augusta Browening, F age 74, Married, b. New York, Real Estate Executive

13. ↑ Find A Grave.

    Charles R Browning

14. ↑ Whittemore, Henry. The Founders and Builders of the Oranges: Comprising a History of the Outlying District of Newark, Subsequently Known as Orange, and of the Later Internal Divisions, viz.: South Orange, West Orange, and East Orange, … 1666-1896. (Newark, New Jersey: L. J. Hardham, 1896)
    p 314.
15.   University of Virginia. Alumni office, and Lewis D Crenshaw. Directory of the living alumni of the University of Virginia: centennial edition. (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press, 1921).
16. ↑ Cornell University. Directory of Living Alumni, 1868-1931. (Cornell University, 1931)
    114.

    Browning, Charles Ross 81-83 PhB, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, NJ

17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1 17.2} Charles R Browning Death Certificate
18. ↑ Charles Ross Browning Headstone
19. ↑ Charles and Augusta Footstones