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ROY H. BROWN

 

 

     ROY H. BROWN.--An aggressively progressive man who made himself felt in the automobile world, is Roy H. Brown, now residing at 1229 L. Street, Sacramento, in which city he was born on September 26, 1896, the son of Henry P. and Anna Rose (Mier) Brown.  Both the father and the mother were natives of California, and came from old Sacramento families.  H. P. Brown was secretary of the J. P. Breuner Company, and died in 1902, when our subject was only four years of age.  This misfortune left the lad with a serious handicap, but with his natural resources he was able, nevertheless, to forge ahead.  He not only went through the usual grammar school courses, but also enjoyed the excellent high school training at his disposal, and then he matriculated at the California Agricultural School, at Davis.  The great World War, however, making its wide appeal to humanity because it so widely involved the nations and the whole cause of liberty and progress, led Roy Brown to enlist, on April 7, 1917, in the United States Navy, where he saw eighteen months of vigorous service; and when he had returned home, honorably discharged and with the satisfaction of feeling that he had fulfilled a sacred duty and lined up with the rest of young American manhood, he engaged in farming for a year.  He always made a success at whatever he undertook, but it was evident that agriculture was not his forte, and he returned to the city and commenced to sell automobiles.

     On March 12, 1920, Mr. Brown and C. W. Bormuth established the Biltwell Garage, at L and Ninth Streets, where their service and repair work of the highest standard and most reliable character steadily brought them more and more patronage.  They continued this partnership only a short time, and then disposed of the business and Mr. Brown began taking contracts for cement work.  Mr. Brown’s name is found on the roster of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, and also as a member of the Progressive Business Club; and he endorses the platforms of the Republican party, making as they do for better trade conditions.

     On October 15, 1919, at Sacramento, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Irene Burns, one of the popular belles of Sacramento; and she shares with her husband the society of a wide circle of devoted friends.

 

 

Transcribed by Patricia Seabolt.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 741.  Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.


© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.

 

 

 



Sacramento County Biographies