Herbert Andrew Browne, M. D., physician and surgeon at Galena, was born in the city of New York, March 11, 1878, a son of Andrew J. and Josephine (Smith) Browne. His father was born in Illinois, and his mother in the State of New York. His father was a merchant, and came west in 1884 and located in Kansas City, Mo., where Dr. Browne was reared and attended the public schools of the city, completing his literary education in the Central High School of Kansas City, and then entered the Kansas City Hospital Medical College, in which he graduated in 1898. For a short period of time he practiced medicine in both Kansas City, Mo., and Burlingame, Kan., and in 1899 located in Galena, where he has gained a large and lucrative practice, and sustains high rank in his profession. He is a member of Cherokee County Medical Society, of the Kansas State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the United States board of pension examiners. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias, also an Eagle, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.