Colusa
County
Biographies
U. W. BROWN
U.
W. Brown, one of the leading members of the Colusa County bar has been engaged
in the practice of his profession in this city for over thirty years, during
which time he has won a large and representative clientele and has risen
steadily in public esteem. Mr. Brown was
born on a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 24th of November,
1860, and is a son of William D. and Martha J. (Bentley) Brown, the former a
native of Missouri and the latter of Kentucky.
In 1865, when he was about four years of age, the family came west,
locating in Corvallis, Oregon, from which place they moved to Colusa County two
years later. The father followed the
business of farming and stock raising, in which he was
fairly successful.
U.
W. Brown attended the district schools and graduated from Pierce Christian
College, at College City, California. He
taught school for four years in Colusa County and then took up the study of law
in the office of Richard Bayless in Colusa, was admitted to the bar of
California in 1897 and has been engaged in the practice of his profession
continuously since. He has been
successful in his material affairs and is the owner of some well improved farm
lands, part of which is devoted to the raising of barley and rice, while the
remainder is planted to prunes. For many
years Mr. Brown was president and a director of the First National Bank and the
First Savings Bank, both of Colusa.
Mr.
Brown’s wife died in 1929. He is the
father of four children, Harris N. Brown, now deceased, U. W. Brown, Jr., B.
Lovelace Brown, and Mrs. Harmon M. Albery.
Mr. Brown gives his political support to the Democratic Party and is
actively interested in local public affairs.
He has been a member of the board of the Colusa public library
continuously since the institution was established and has been one of its
wisest advisors and warmest supporters.
He is a member of Colusa Lodge, F. & A. M.; Colusa Commandery, K.
T., of which he was commander for several years; and Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O.
N. M. S., at Sacramento, and his religious connection
is with the Christian Church. An able
and successful attorney, public-spirited citizen and loyal and sincere friend
and neighbor, he is regarded as one of Colusa’s representative men.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3 Pages 15-16. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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