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Nathaniel Borradaile Browne (1819-1875) was a lawyer, financier, and government official in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Born in Philadelphia, he helped found the Fidelity Trust Company in 1866 and worked on the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Fairmount Park.[1] He represented a Philadelphia district in the Pennsylvania state legislature and was appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia on March 30, 1859.[2]

His papers are today preserved at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "N. B. BROWNE PAPERS, 1845 – 1873". University of Delaware Library. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware. 2001.
  2. ^ Scharf, John Thomas; Thompson, Westcott (1884). History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884. Vol. 3. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1812.


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