John ross browne biography examples

American journalist

John Ross Browne (February 11, in Beggars Bush, Dublin, Ireland – December 9, in Oakland, California), often called J.

Ross Browne, date of birth sometimes given as , was an Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer and government agent.

John Ross Browne (J.

Author of Etchings of a Whaling Cruise (), J. Ross Browne was born in Beggars Bush, Ireland, and emigrated to America when he was twelve years old.

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Primarily relating to his research on Browne and Browne family genealogy.

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In the late s, Ralston Purina opened a chain of seafood restaurants named after Browne, called J Ross Browne's Whaling Station.^[1]

Biography

John Ross Browne was the third of seven children born to Thomas Egerton Browne, an Irish newspaper editor, and his wife, Elizabeth (Buck) Browne.

Thomas Browne was an ardent nationalist who ran afoul of the Dublin Castle administration and was sent to prison, but released on condition of his leaving Ireland. In the family emigrated to the United States.^[2] They settled in Louisville, Kentucky, where Thomas became a schoolteacher and eventually editor and proprietor of the Louisville Daily Reporter.^[3]

Browne briefly atten