Kansas Counties
Brown County, Kansas
| Date Established: | August 25, 1855 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| County Seat: | Hiawatha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Origin of Name: | 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 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History: | The county name was spelled Browne in the original statute, but the county seal omitted the 'e', as have all subsequent statutes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other Resources: |
Post offices in Brown County Cemeteries in Brown County, As of 1906 Newspapers Available on Microfilm Townships and Independent Cities in Brown County Bibliography Kansas Memory |
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| Links to Other Sites: |
Brown County GenWeb Early Kansas Maps [KanColl] |
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