Sacramento County
Biographies
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.