Charles R. Browning, Ex-Head of Housefurnishings Company Here Dies at 83: West Orange, N.J., Jan 26. Charles Ross Browning of Llewellyn Park, retired president of the former Buckley Newhall Company and Mutual Trading Company, New York household furnishings merchandisers, died tonight in the Orange Memorial Hospital at the age of 83. He had resided in Llewellyn Park since shortly after the Civil War. Mr. Browning was born in Orange, a son of Ross C. Browning, former president of the American Ringer Company of New York, with which the son was once affiliated, and Mrs. Catherine Hamilton Browning. He was graduated in 1883 from Cornell University where he was on the football team and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Browning was an original member of the Essex County Country Club here. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Augusta E. Clark Browning, whom he married fifty-seven years ago; three daughters, Mrs. R. Potter Campbell of Llewellyn Park, and Mrs. Howard F. Murchie and Mrs. Dorothy B. Lee of South Pasadena, Calif.; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Charles R. Browning, Ex-Head of Housefurnishings Company Here Dies at 83: West Orange, N.J., Jan 26. Charles Ross Browning of Llewellyn Park, retired president of the former Buckley Newhall Company and Mutual Trading Company, New York household furnishings merchandisers, died tonight in the Orange Memorial Hospital at the age of 83. He had resided in Llewellyn Park since shortly after the Civil War. Mr. Browning was born in Orange, a son of Ross C. Browning, former president of the American Ringer Company of New York, with which the son was once affiliated, and Mrs. Catherine Hamilton Browning. He was graduated in 1883 from Cornell University where he was on the football team and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Browning was an original member of the Essex County Country Club here. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Augusta E. Clark Browning, whom he married fifty-seven years ago; three daughters, Mrs. R. Potter Campbell of Llewellyn Park, and Mrs. Howard F. Murchie and Mrs. Dorothy B. Lee of South Pasadena, Calif.; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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