Marengo, Lake Geneva & Northern

Browne, A. T. - President of Marengo, Lake Geneva & Northern Railway. (Illinois PUC 1915, p 1312)



ARTHUR TABER BROWNE

Born at Des Moines, 7 October 1867, of Hamilton Browne (coal operator)

and Mary Louise Napier.
Fitted at Phillips Exeter.
Class Status: Regular A.B.

Married Clara Louise Holmdale at Minneapolis, 9 October 1901. Children:
Hamilton, 2d, born 26 June 1905.
Daughter, 23 February 1909.
Now in electrical construction at Chicago.

" Graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School, De-
gree LL.B., 1894. Worked as a clerk in a law office in Chicago
for two years. I then went to Boone, Iowa. Practised law;
referee in bankruptcy for six years ; attorney for railway and
coal companies. Gradually worked into railway work entirely
and came to Chicago in fall of 1905. Since then I have been
engaged, with my father, in the promotion and building of
the Elgin & Belvidere Electric Company and the Marengo,
Lake Geneva & Northern Railway — both interurban electric
railways."