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William Browning
b.1855-07-07; d.1941-01-05; Brooklyn, NY, US; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1940-1941 (p.159)
(contributed by Scott Prentice on 2013-10-16)
William Browning, Ph.B. 1876.
Born July 7, 1855, in North Stonington, Conn.
Died January 5, 1941, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Father, William Thomas Browning, a farmer and school principal in New London County, Conn.; son of Thomas and Amy (Prentice) Browning. Mother, Nancy Crary (Avery) Browning, daughter of Amos and Dolly (Crary) Avery. Yale relatives include a brother, Amos A Browning,'75 S.
Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy Chemistry course; member Alpha Chi, and Vernon Hall and Phi Gamma Delta.
Teacher Media (Pa.) Academy 1876-78; attended University of Pennsylvania 1876-78 and universities of Wurzburg and Leipzig 1878-81 (M D. Leipzig 1881); interne Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, 1881-82; physician in Brooklyn 1882-1941, specializing in neurology and psychiatry, on staff Kings County, Brooklyn, Brooklyn State, Long Island College, Sea View, St John's, Jewish, Bushwick, Caledonian, and St. Catherine's hospitals, and Norwegian Lutheran Deaconesses' Home and Hospital; lecturer on normal neurology Long Island College of Medicine 1887-1901, professor of neuropsychiatry 1901-26, and professor emeritus 1926-41; author The Veins of the Brain and Its Envelopes (1884), The Epileptic Interval (1893), The Normal and Pathological Circulation in the Central Nervous System (1897), The Thymus and Stammering (1915), MedicalHeredity (1925), and a number of pamphlets; editor Neurographs 1907-15; a frequent contributor to medical journals, New York State examiner in lunacy 1893-1939; member New York City Commission on Inebriety 1911-18, a founder American Association of Medical Librarians 1898, president 1917-19, and treasurer, president Brooklyn Society for Neurology, Associated Physicians of Long Island, and Medical Society of the County of Kings 1901; member Engineers Research Association, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Long Island Historical Society, American Neurological Association, American Association of Anatomists, American Society of Naturalists, American Medical Association, and Amencan Association for the Advancement of Science.
Unmarried.
Death followed an operation for an intestinal disturbance. Buried in Preston City (Conn.) Cemetery. Survived by a sister, Sarah Perry Browning (B A. Smith Coll. 1885) of Norwich.
Born July 7, 1855, in North Stonington, Conn.
Died January 5, 1941, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Father, William Thomas Browning, a farmer and school principal in New London County, Conn.; son of Thomas and Amy (Prentice) Browning. Mother, Nancy Crary (Avery) Browning, daughter of Amos and Dolly (Crary) Avery. Yale relatives include a brother, Amos A Browning,'75 S.
Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy Chemistry course; member Alpha Chi, and Vernon Hall and Phi Gamma Delta.
Teacher Media (Pa.) Academy 1876-78; attended University of Pennsylvania 1876-78 and universities of Wurzburg and Leipzig 1878-81 (M D. Leipzig 1881); interne Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, 1881-82; physician in Brooklyn 1882-1941, specializing in neurology and psychiatry, on staff Kings County, Brooklyn, Brooklyn State, Long Island College, Sea View, St John's, Jewish, Bushwick, Caledonian, and St. Catherine's hospitals, and Norwegian Lutheran Deaconesses' Home and Hospital; lecturer on normal neurology Long Island College of Medicine 1887-1901, professor of neuropsychiatry 1901-26, and professor emeritus 1926-41; author The Veins of the Brain and Its Envelopes (1884), The Epileptic Interval (1893), The Normal and Pathological Circulation in the Central Nervous System (1897), The Thymus and Stammering (1915), MedicalHeredity (1925), and a number of pamphlets; editor Neurographs 1907-15; a frequent contributor to medical journals, New York State examiner in lunacy 1893-1939; member New York City Commission on Inebriety 1911-18, a founder American Association of Medical Librarians 1898, president 1917-19, and treasurer, president Brooklyn Society for Neurology, Associated Physicians of Long Island, and Medical Society of the County of Kings 1901; member Engineers Research Association, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Long Island Historical Society, American Neurological Association, American Association of Anatomists, American Society of Naturalists, American Medical Association, and Amencan Association for the Advancement of Science.
Unmarried.
Death followed an operation for an intestinal disturbance. Buried in Preston City (Conn.) Cemetery. Survived by a sister, Sarah Perry Browning (B A. Smith Coll. 1885) of Norwich.
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