Interview with Lee F. Browne - Caltech Oral Histories

Browne–2
COHEN: Now, that would have been—
BROWNE: World War I.
COHEN: World War I. OK. We’re going back a long time.
BROWNE: Yes. See, I’m seventy-seven. [Chuckle]
COHEN: Ah, OK. [Chuckle]
BROWNE: So he went to World War I. And in the army he met my in-law uncles. My mother
had two brothers, and then there was one man that my aunt had married, so that was three. So
there were four of these men that went to the war together. So when he came back, my mother
and he were married. And I was the product of that marriage.
COHEN: Are you a first child, or an only child?
BROWNE: First and only child.
COHEN: Ah, OK.
BROWNE: He was a blacksmith, and I used to spend time with him—as I can remember, [I was]
about five or six years of age—looking at what he was doing and trying to understand why he
was going through all of these machinations with heat and metals and all that stuff.
COHEN: I see. Introduction to science in a practical way.
BROWNE: Yes, that was my first meddling with that.
COHEN: Was this a small town, this Reedsville?
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