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BROWN County is situated in the northeastern portion of Kansas, being located in the first tier of
counties, from Nebraska. Doniphan County lies to the east, Atchison and Jackson counties to the
south, and Nemaha County to the west.1.
Organized in 1855. County seat Hiawatha. After Albert G. Browne, of Mississippi, who had been
Senator and member of the House of Representatives from that state, was United States Senator
at the date of the Act organizing Kansas Territory, was relected for six years in 1859, but withdrew
with Jefferson Davis on the secession of the Southern states.2.
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
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2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)
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