Yolo County
Biographies
T. E. BROWN
T.
E. Brown, well known as a progressive business man and as a member of the city
council of Woodland, was born in Lookout, Modoc County, California, July 15,
1889, and is a son of Demarcus N. and Margaret (Phillips) Brown. The father is a native of Missouri, while the
mother was born in Yolo County, California, and is a representative of one of
its pioneer families. D. N. Brown
arrived in Yolo County when but five years of age and after attaining adult age
took up the occupation of farming. There
are three sons in the family, T. E., William LeRoy and Marcus N.
When
T. E. Brown was only a year old his parents removed with their family from
Modoc to Yolo County, settling on a farm near Knights Landing, and there he
pursued his studies until graduated from high school with the class of
1909. Afterward he engaged in farming,
making a specialty of grain raising and dairying, and later followed the
carpenter’s trade in Modesto and Woodland.
Next he entered the contracting business on his own account in Woodland,
there giving his attention to the building of residences until 1920. Two years prior to that time he had
established a warehouse business and in 1920 he retired from the contracting
field. His energies have since been
devoted to the management of the warehouse, which he conducts in partnership
with Dennis Collins under the style of Brown & Collins, the firm having
been organized in 1921. Theirs is the
only warehouse in Woodland. In addition
to the storage of grain, they buy and sell farm products and have three
plants. Success has attended their
activities and their patronage is now one of extensive proportions.
Mr.
Brown was united in marriage to Miss Ethelinda Bourn, a native of Woodland, and
they have three children, Kenneth, Bethel and Robert.
In
1927 Mr. Brown was elected to the city council and is now serving on the
committees on finance, streets, sewers and water. He belongs to the Rotary Club and he is not
neglectful of his obligations in regard to the moral progress of the
community. As a consistent and loyal
member of the Methodist Church he served as chairman of its finance and
building committee when the new house of worship was erected, and at all times
he gives able and earnest support to the work of the church. In a word, his influence is ever on the side
of progress, reform and improvement and his worth as a business man and as a
citizen is uniformly acknowledged.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 343-344. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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