Irving Browne

Irving Browne was born on September 14, 1835 at Marshall, Oneida County, New York, the son of two persons of strongly contrasting personality, Lewis C. Browne, a Universalist clergyman of austere character, and his wife, Harriet Hand, a lady of attractive personality and social charm. Irving was educated in the common schools at Nashua, New Hampshire, and Norwich, Connecticut, leaving at the age of fourteen in order to learn the printing trade. In 1853 he went to Hudson, New York, and there commenced the study of law, which he continued in New York City, finally entering the Law School at Albany, where he graduated in 1857. Irving Browne was an American legal writer, lawyer, editor. He is regarded for his written works that contributed to the legal system of the United States.