Browne, Andrew A.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 492. Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Browne, Andrew Alfred, of Plaquemine, parish of Iberville, sheriff of the parish since 1890, was born Aug. 2, 1867. His father, Henry S. Browne, was a native of Knox, Albany county, N. V. (in 1820); came to Iberville parish in, or about, 1840, and died in 1883. Mrs. Henry S. Browne was Amelia Marie Dupuy Browne, daughter of a sugar planter. She was born at St. Gabriel, La., and her death occurred in 1905. There were 3 children in the family; Andrew Alfred Browne, of Plaquemine; Octave Gideon, physician at St. Gabriel, La., who received the degree of A. B., and graduated from Union college in 1879, and died Feb. 24, 1914, and Mary, Isabella, now widow of J. A. Bernet, M. D., of St. Gabriel. Andrew Alfred Browne was educated in private schools at St. Gabriel, and at Union college, Schenectady, N. V., from which he graduated (A. B.), in 1879. Next he studied for one year at the University of Virginia, then entered Tulane university at New Orleans, graduating in 1882, with the degree of LL. B. Mr. Browne began the practice of law at Plaquemine, and in 1890 was elected sheriff of Iberville parish, a position he still holds. In the Masonic order he is affiliated with Acacia lodge, No. 116, of Plaquemine. Sheriff Browne married, March 17, 1890, Miss Maria Leonie Joly, a daughter of Anatole, and Marie Elizabeth (Dupuy) Joly, both of St. Gabriel, where Mr. Joly was a planter. He died in 1910; his widow is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Alfred Browne had 9 children, of whom 2 died in infancy. The family of 7 is as follows: Henry S., a graduate in medicine from Tulane (1914); Mary Isabella S., a State Normal school graduate, of the class of 1913, and teacher at White Castle, Iberville parish; Mary Elizabeth, graduate, Aug. 5, 1914, State Normal school; Alfred Bernet Browne, a student at the Louisiana State university, Baton Rouge, La.; Lena C., at the high school, Plaquemine; Octave Gideon, attending public school at Plaquemine, and Andrew A. Browne, Jr.