Francis Fisher BrowneFRANCIS FISHER BROWNE was an American editor, poet, and literary reviewer who was born December 1, 1843, and died May 11, 1913. The Chicago Literary Club, the Caxton Club (Chicago), and The Twilight Club of Pasadena (California) all made Browne an hoorary member after all. He was one of their leaders. In the summer of 1893, he was in charge of the Committee on Congress at the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exhibition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair. Browne was one of the most important intellectuals and writers in Chicago, Illinois, in the 20th century. Browne moved to Chicago from New England in 1867 and started the literary magazine The Dial. It was a revival of Margaret Fuller's transcendental periodical and a place for modernist literature to be published. Along the way, he became close with John Muir, John Burroughs, Walt Witman, and other well-known people. Born in South Halifax, Vermont, Browne was the son of William Goldsmith Browne and Eunice (Fisher) Browne. People know his father as a poet because of the song and hymn "A Hundred Years to Come." Browne learned how to print by working at The Chicopee Journal, his father's newspaper, while he was in high school in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less