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time he was treasurer of the Cherokee
Iron Company of Cedartown, Georgia,
and he was a director in the Citizen's
National Bank of Englewood, New Jer-
sey. Mr. Browning made his home in
New York City, but maintained an attrac-
tive summer home at Tenafly, New Jersey.
He was deeply interested in organized
charitable work, both in New York
and New Jersey, and in association with
his wife erected a fresh air children's
home at Tenafly. While he was essentially
a business man, a director in many
profitable enterprises, Mr. Browning always
had time for a reasonable amount
of recreation, and devoted much thought
and care to benevolent work in the inter-
est of mankind in general. He was twice
a presidential elector, and prior to his
marriage was active in the Masonic order.
He died suddenly in the Erie ferryhouse
at the foot of Chambers street. New York
City, October 26, 1914, on his way home.
John Hull Browning married, October
19, 1871, Eva B. Sisson, daughter of
Charles Grandison and Mary Elizabeth
(Garrabrant) Sisson (see Sisson on a following
page). They were the parents of
a son, John Hull Browning, Jr., bom
October 6, 1874. died June 10, 1917.
(Tho Hazard Line).
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Crest—An escallop gules.
The family of Hassard, Hassart, or
Hazard, is of Norman extraction. At the
time of the Conquest they were sitting on
the borders of Switzerland, and were dis-
tinguished by the ancient but long extinct
title of Duke de Charante. Two bearing
this title visited the Holy Land as cru-
saders. The Hazards in this country
belong chiefly to Rhode Island, where the
original Thomas Hazard settled in 1639.
Tradition says that Thomas Hazard was
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accompanied by a nephew, the ancestor
of the New York and southern branches
of the family. In Rhode Island the name
is one of the most numerous in the State.
Mrs. Mary Hazard, of South Kingston,
Rhode Island, grandmother of Governor
Hazard, died in 1739, at the age of one
hundred years, and could count up five
hundred children, grandchildren, great-
grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren,
of whom two hundred and five were
then living.
(I) Thomas Hazard, the first American
ancestor, born in England in 1610, came
from England, some say Wales, and settled
in Rhode Island, in 1635. His name
is first found in Boston in 1635. In 1638
he was admitted a freeman of Boston ; in
1639 he was admitted freeman of Newport,
Rhode Island, and in 1640 he was
appointed a member of the General Court
of Elections. He died in 1680. Thomas
Hazard married (first) Martha, surname
unknown, who died in 1669. He mar-
ried (second) Martha Sheriff, widow of
Thomas Sheriff, who died in 1691. Issue,
probably all by first marriage: i. Robert,
of whom further. 2. Elizabeth, married
George Lawton. 3. Hannah, married
Stephen Wilcox, son of Edward Wilcox.
4. Martha, married (first) Ichabod Potter,
son of Nathaniel and Dorothy Potter;
(second) Benjamin Mowry, son of Roger
and Mary Mowry.
(II) Robert Hazard, eldest son of
Thomas and Martha (Sheriff) Hazard,
was born in 1635, in England or Ireland.
He was admitted a freeman of Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, and appears to have
been a prominent man in the colony, and
was a large landowner. He built a big
house in Kingston, Rhode Island, which
stood for a century and a half. The house
had a long L in which was a capacious
chimney with two stone seats where, tradition
says, the little slave children were