Sam Browne belt Sam Browne belt The Sam Browne belt is a wide belt, usually leather, supported by a narrower strap passing diagonally over the right shoulder (although Royal Canadian Mounted Police non-commissioned members wear theirs over the left shoulder). It is most often a part of a military or police uniform. General Sir Sam Browne was a 19th-century British Indian Army officer who had lost his left arm; this made it difficult for him to draw his sword, because the left hand was typically used to steady the scabbard while the right drew out the sword. Browne came up with the idea
Vincent A. Hoover Vincent A. Hoover Vincent A. Hoover (1824–1883) was a bank director, a land developer and a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of that city, in the mid-19th century. Hoover came to Los Angeles about the age of thirty with his mother and his father, Dr. Leonce Hoover, whose original name was Huber; the elder Huber was born in Switzerland and had studied medicine at the University of Paris. The Hoovers had two daughters as well; one of them, Mary A., married Samuel Briggs. "For a while the Hoovers lived on the Wolfskill Ranch, after which