Educator
Centurion, 1904–1930
Born 26 July 1854 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 2 April 1930 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Joseph R. Duryee and John B. Pine
Elected 7 May 1904 at age forty-nine
Century Memorial
John A. Browning’s life was devoted with exceptional success to the right development of boyhood. His school was limited to forty boys and its cost was relatively great; but the pupils came from wealthy homes, where many of them had been pampered. Browning undertook to correct the resultant faults and weakness. With a disciplinarian at the head of the school who exacted and obtained willing obedience, the boys left it for their college course able to think and act for themselves. Many of them have become recognized leaders in the making of a better world.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook
