Butte
County
Biographies
HOMER P. BROWN
Homer
P. Brown is the president of one of the largest and most successful lime
manufacturing concerns in central California, the Diamond Springs Lime Company,
which though not an old concern, has a large and complete plant, its products
having a wide sale. Mr. Brown was born
on a farm in Butte county, California on the 4th
of July, 1878, and is a son of P. G. and Mary E. (McNeil) Brown, both natives
of Ohio. The father come to Sutter county, California, in 1873, and later located in Butte county,
where he engaged in the cattle business during the remainder his life. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having
served as captain of Company, A, Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and later he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He died in 1893 and was survived a number of
years by his widow, who passed away in 1912.
Homer
P. Brown attended the public and high schools of San Francisco, after which he
was for twenty-one years employed in an executive capacity by a large sugar
firm in various places. Later he spent
twelve years in the timber business in the Pacific Northwest, holding an
executive position. The Diamond Springs
Lime Company, of which he is the president, was organized in April, 1927, as a
closed corporation. The company gives
employment to one hundred persons and has a productive capacity of three
hundred tons of lime a day, which is shipped to all parts of the United States
and to foreign countries.
Mr.
Brown was united in marriage to Miss Eve E. Ledden, who was born and reared in
this state, and they are the parents of a daughter, Mrs. Eve E. Fout, of Palo
Alto, California, who is the mother of two children. Mr. Brown gives his support to the Republican
Party and is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Golf and shooting are his favorite
sports. He is a man of marked business
ability, has been very successful in promoting the interests of his company,
and is regarded as a good citizen in the best sense of the term. His home is at Placerville.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 246-247. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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