Imperial
County
Biographies
ARTHUR
BROWN
Arthur Brown, division superintendent of the
Imperial Irrigation Company, with office at Calexico, has been a resident of
Imperial county during the past two decades. He was
born at Tempe, Arizona, January 12, 1891, his parents being W. T. and Eliza
(Bowen) Brown, natives of England, in which country they were married. They
crossed the Atlantic to the United States in the ‘80s and took up their abode
near Superior, Arizona, where W. T. Brown devoted his attention to farming
pursuits throughout the remainder of his life, passing away in 1932. For a
decade he had survived his wife, whose death occurred in 1922. Their family
numbered five children.
Arthur Brown acquired his education
in the grammar and high schools of Tempe, Arizona, where he was subsequently
identified with the grocery trade and with other lines of business. It was in
1914, when a young man of twenty-three years, that he came to Imperial county,
California, and after spending a year in Holtville moved to El Centro, where he
resided until establishing his home at Calexico in January, 1920. He is now
division superintendent of the Imperial Irrigation Company, with offices at Calexico,
and has done very valuable and effective work in the improvement of the
district.
In 1912 Mr. Brown was united in
marriage to Mary Rohrig, of Indiana, and they are the
parents of four children: William Martin, who married Mabel Jones and has a
son, William Arthur; Dorothy Mildred; Mary Ethel; and Harry Hubert. Mr. Brown
is a consistent member of the Baptist Church and is also a worthy exemplar of
the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to El Centro
Lodge, No. 384, F. & A. M., at El Centro.
Transcribed By:
Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Page 155,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
Golden Nugget Library's Imperial County Biographies