Brown County 1899

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Search this site powered by FreeFind Join Our Mailing Lists Genealogy Trails Mailing Lists If you have an obit you'd like to submit for this county or any other Kansas County? Submit here! This Month's Featured Data Henry J. Aten bio and Civil War Pension Papers Gregory Amann bio Captain John Schilling bio Spanish American War Roster Cemeteries in 1906 Old Post Offices Brown County was established August 25, 1855.  In the 1870s, the secretary of the state Board of Agriculture attempted to determine for whom the county was named. Several of the legislators in the 1855 session declared the Brown County was named for Albert Gallatin Brown (1813-1880), United States senator from Mississippi at the time of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Other legislators, however, stated it was named for O. H. Browne, a member of that legislature.  The county name was spelled Browne in the original statute, but the county seal omitted the 'e', as have all subsequent statutes. County Seat is Hiawatha. Brown County Courthouse

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