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Carl Brown
Snow Bird Mill
Mrs Fulton
Ida Brown
Brown Lumber Company
Whitefield
Edwin H Fearon 1900
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ChRL E. BROdN, MCChLL IS SENIOR 'CITIZEN
By Helen Miller
(Reprint from Payette Lakes. 5tar,__sometime in 1950)
of life
Carl E. Brown, senior citizen, counts 47 years /., in the state of
Idaho, 47 years crammed full of living as only a tjigorous and adventuresome
man can hack the years.
Carl Brown saw the hard years on the tdil end of the gold boom
on Thunder 1ountain in that lustyand brawling young Idaho when the
snows of winter lay deep and unbroked over all the mountain roads, or
mud in the Spring sucked at the hips of team drivers as they urged
sweating horses through the streets of McCall. '"e has watched the
mud tracks changed to paved roads, the rutted. freighting trails re-
placed by the railroad line and the huge motor trucl;..
A modest man is Carl Brown, whose lumber industry has grown until
it is the sustaining factor of the villa -e of McCall. Asked for an
interview of his accomplishments, he said, "What for? I eve not
accomplished much with my life- -just stag6ered around from job to
job until I got what I wanted- -the lumber industry. Took me until
I was 37years old just to find myself."
Interested in lumbering was born in this vital man, but not bred.
His §randf:,.ther /Brown owned a lumber company and sawmill on the Pemi
gewasset River in New Hampshire. Carl Brown's father, Warren G. Brown,
and an uncle were both lumbermen. Tne mother, Charlotte Elliott,
a meticulous Scotch housekeeper, wanted none of the lumber business
for her son. She hated the smell. of oxen, of sweat, of ne °w cut wood,
and disliked the sturdy vlass of people who followed the lumber trade.
She put her son Carl into a general store as a clerk, where he tried to
kill tAs desire to be a logger.
Before his first vtarriage, ;Darren G. Brown at 22 had crossed the
Isthmus of Panama in 1858 to join the rush for gold in California. Ii.SrQ.Ad�
2. Carl E. Brown, by Helen filler
in San Francisco he purchased a logging and sawmill operation. Drifting
up the coast to the Hood Canal, he made a stake in lashington terri-
tory when its population consisted of 7000 white people and 21,000
Indians. Returning to Aew Hampshire he married his sweetheart,
bought a farm, but after his first wife's death he returned to
4�ashington, made another stake, and with it went back to New Hampshire
to marry Charlotte Elliot. Nith his brother as a partner, he bought abd
operated the Brown Lumber Company in virgin timber near Ihite-
field on the ed e of the 4hite mountains.
The mining bug, however, had bitten deep into arren G. Brovrfi.
+'v'hen he was 70 he urged Ctrl to come out to Idaho in 1903 to look into
some mining interests in the Thunder Mountain district. The mine didn't
pan out and most of the family money was washed out with the sands in
the goldpan.
The father went to Nampa, where a rea*state broker talked rim
into buying an alfalfa meal plant. The plant went broke, and young
Carl saved what he could by buying a team of horses, baling the h,-,Y
and hauling it into Nampa to sell: Gradually he worked into the hay
business, buying, baling and selling.
Chance stepped into the picture again. Mrs. Brown had her first
baby. Her trained nurse had a husband who interested C,<<rl Brown
in a partnership in the sugarbeet business. The Browns had made
enough money from the hay to invest 42,000 in sugarbeets. They rented
100 acr,-s on Indian creek near Nampa and 80 acres of hay and grain
land for a place to live. A partial crop f ailure the first year put
the partners into debt for exactly what the Browns had invested. The
note of indebtedness was split by the bank into J p 1000 for each partner.
Mrs. Brown, a frail little woman of 94 pounds lived in one room
in Nampa with her baby
while her husband
snowshoed
100
miles
over
4p�E summit, through
Barren, and over
Elk Summit
to
Ramey
Ridge,
where he could 'et a job working in a prospect mine at �t& � 7
3. Carl E. Brown, by Helen Miller
a month and board. The monthly checks were sent to ors. Brown wh
paid to the bank the 412 interest due each month on the note. In the
Spring Tars. Brown joined her husband, and the two worked hard khR for
three years until they had paid back the indebtedness on both notes.
they lived first in a small cabin on the Crown dining Compar�,v 's
land. In January with the snow 12 feet deep they left the cabin and
packed out to Barren. Five days later a snowslide came down the mountain
and took the cabin with it.
"Those were desperate times we had in the mountains," Carl Brown said,
reminiscing as he leaned back in his chair in his pleasant livingroom.
"For six months 1virs. Brown didn't see another woman and for six years
she didn't see a railroad. ie bought a little shoestring ranch on the
South Fork and Mrs. Brown kept stoppers. Writes were 50 cents a meal
and 50 cents a bed. She churned butter to sellat 50 cents a pound in
4arren, a bib price for butter in those days. Eggs sold for 25 cents
a dozen,. I got the contract to haul mail between -,:�dNardsburg and Darren.
Had two big dogsand a sled to cart the mail, and 1 broke trail for the.
dogs on showshoes. The snow was deep on the level, and you never
knew what a snowslide would rumble down from the mountains."
1�:ny interesting people were "stoppers" at the Browns in the
summer days of those years, staying on to eat Ida Brown's cooking and
to fish or hunt. Professor Holden of Iowa State College, Ames, was
a "stopper" as were I+1r. and -&jrs. idedill Rc0ormick of Chicago, and
- alargaret Cobb, now `11rs, Ailshie of Boise, publisher of the Idaho
Statesman newspapers.
' vhhen Carl Brown was underbid for the mail route, he came out of
the mountains and bought the mail contract from Lardo to warren. In
four years he was again underbid, and this time he purchased an in-
terest in a business that he had always wanted to enter, lumbering.
It was in 1913 that he bought out Bert Bills, a partner of Theodore
4. Carl L. Brown by Helen k�liller
Hoff in the lumber business in McCall, using as capital the money
saved from his years on the mail route and cash from the sale of
horses and equipment. The total was 4'3500.
The Browns moved into a tiny two -room house, where lairs. Bennett's
home now stands. Carl Brown was a logger at last.
The lumber 6ompany contracted to sell lumber to the Payette
Lakes Inn, then being built, at 412 a thousand feet. Four horses, axle
deep in mud could haul only a thousand board feet per load.
( "There goes a good bunch of logs, Pa," "'rs. Brown interpolated
here, looking out the window at a huge Brown's Tie and Lumber Co. truck
as it thundered by with its load of great logs bound for the mill. Poaerful
purring machinery rolling by on a smooth highway seemed a long cry from
those days of mud and straining horses.)
Business looked good for Hoff and Brown until the Payette Lakes
Inn decided it could pay only half of its 1,0400 bill.
" Je got only 4'6 a thousand feet for that lumber. i4e get approximately
p90 now, -arl Brown said.
The lumber company was pretty h_-,.rd up after this material loss.
To add to the difficulties, snow blocked the railroad line that winter,
and no lumber could go out to market. Carl Brown went back to his
mailhauling to earn enough money to handle the payroll at the mill.
he hauled the mail from ideCall to Cascade for 450 a trip, tNice a reek
through deep snow with six good logging horses Fulling the mail, and
he himself on snowshoes. In 1916 -17 he hauled the mail from Lardo
to ,iarren to feet mill expenses.
After the bad years, times grew easier. Indebtedness was paid
off at 12J interest, and contracts rolled in. In 1929r. Hoff
sold his shire in the company to Yjr. Brown. tinder his management the
business grow until its next setback, when in 1931 -32 a bad financial
slump caught the company with all its money tied up in a million feet
of logs and an order on hand for only 30,000 ties. kany sawmills
5 Carl E. -Drown. By Helen tiller
_round the country closed r:7own, but Brown's Tie and Lumber `company
weathered the depression.
In July, 1940, the mill burned to the ground, but so good was
Carl Brown's name in the state by this time that he was able to borrow
enough money on his personal note to rebuild his mill.
At the present time the company cuts 19 million feet of lumber
each year, ships imny cars to Brooklyn, New York, and last year Jias
a gayroll of , 654, 000.
14ainy men have worked for the lumber company for m .ny years,
haue built homes in McCall, often with the aid of the company.
They pay on a home only during the summer :working months, and the company
nev._�r has taken a home from an employee in financial troubles.
warren Brown, who inherited his f;_zther's love of the lumber
business, has worked up from the bottom. At 10 years of age, he
started to work on the pond; at 12 he was in the woods. Now a capable
and efficient lumberman, he has a half interest in the business and
is vice- president and assistant manager of the company.
Carl Brown's creed in business is a simple one, but sound as the heart
of the good yellow pine trees that he cuts.
"Honesty," he says, "is the foundation of a successful life. deep
your word at any cost ith a nyone to whom you give it, whether it is
to your banker or to your humblest employee."
CARL ELLIOTT BROWN tA�rt� 00
It seems logical to start my autobiography with a statement about
being born. This portentous occasion happened to me on Sbptember 10,
1878. Simple mathematics would provte that I am 80 plus years old.
it was 1899 that I graduated from New Hampton Institite and for
three years 1 worked in the Brown Lumber store in uhitefield, New
Hampshire', for my father. The company was sold in 1902. I was sent to
Idaho in 1903 to look after some mining interests owned by my father
and have resided here continuously for the intervening 55 years.
Ida Harrington End I were married on August 28, 1902, and we
have four children, three daughters and one son, and in addition we have
twelve grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
Ay introduction to Idaho and the mining industry involved going
into the great prmmitive area of this state on horseback. It was
30 mil.�s to the nearest settlement. Two years of hard work proved the
futility of that venture, and I went to Nampa to dispose of a great
deal of hay that had been purchased for use in the manufacture of
alfalfa meal. The sale of this material was successfully acco,.plished
and by 1906 i had accumulated three t earns of horses and 412,000. 1906
was the first year of operation for the sugar beet plant in Nampa.
The crop that year had been good, and 1 was persuaded by a Mr. Fred
Stewart to form a partnership for the raising of beets. Ne rented
land, used my teams and my capital/ In 1907 there was a crop failure,
a financial panic a.nd we wound up less all assets and owing the bank
422000. My partner arranged to set this debt up as individual
obligations of :4"1,000 each, interest at 12 %, and therein lies the
secret of my subsequent successful years. 1 paid that debt off
in 410 and larger payments over the next four years and establshed
a credit reputation that i have. anxiously guarded at all times since.
That P"1,000 repayment under difficult circumstances has been t::e
basis for F. personal credit line that has recently reached one half
2. Autobigoraphy of Carl Elliott -brown
At any rate, after the sugar beet fiasco, I worked for a survey
and
crew /later that winter was offered a job in a mine in the prii,itive area
providing I was willing to snowshoe 95 Miles over three high summits to
reach the mine. This I did. Ivy employer ran out of money in a s port
time and I then worked for another mining concern. lbiy wife and infant
daughter came in the following spring by horseback. That summer, 1908,
I contracted t he digging of 110' feet of mine shaft and we worked
until the snow was so deep that it was necessary to use snowshoes to get to
the outhouse. iVe completed the contract and Mrs. Brown and I snowshoed
to the summit two miles away, carrying our daughter. There we met the
mail carrier with his dog team. On the way to McCall, we stayed the
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first night at an overnight stopping place and while there /were offered
the entire place including 160 acres of land, house, furniture and
animals for .'500. tirrangements were made for the purchase. The
mail contract from Narrens to Edwardsburg was secured and for 2 years
1 c, rried the mail on snowshoes, and with snowshoe -shod horses in the
winter, and a team and wagon in the summer while 2vrs. Brown kept bstoppers"
at 50¢ a mean and 50¢ a bed. le finished paying the bank.
The mail contract raa out in 1910.. I sold the place for part cash
and a parcel of land in McCall. in a very short time I purchased the
McCall to idarren mail route for J5,000 and carried the mail with dog
teams;, snowshoe -shod horses and any other way to get through. Snow
was often 20 feet deep. This ran out in 1914 and I sold the outfit for
�3, 500 cash.
There was at this time a sawmill in McCall owned by tufe men
in partnership. 1 was approached by one of the partners to buy the other
Imo. rtner's share, which I did for P3,000. I had no atcual logging
experience but had been exposed to it for years at home while my father
owned and operated the Brown Lumber Company. 4e put logs in the pond
for 4 "4 per thousand boL:_rd feet,, and in this connection I out up
my remaining cash to buy a stand of timber, thus leaving hn money
3. nutobioraphy of Carl E. Brown
for living; expenses. Fortunately the railroad which had just been
built to McCall was snowbound for seven weeks, and I packed the mail on their
contract, t ,vo times a week from McCall to Cascade, 30 miles,, for "50
a trip. This income supported both my family(wife and four children)
and my partner'd family (wife and six children) for those long months
and again I .vas forced to use snowshoes and snowshoe -shod horses as the
roads, tooj: were blocked.
Je began selling t ies t o the railroad in the second year, and for
years we did well to mike expenses. 14y partner ran the mill and I took
care of the logging and fin-.ncing. In 1929, we had accumulated a few
assets, and my partner forced me to buy him out. Again the years were
lean and it was only through good management on the part of hrs. Brown
and myself that we managed to keep operating and to educLte our children
in the schools of their choice.
1940 was the year the mill burned, and it was then that the personal
credit that i had watched so carefully paid off. h Boise bank loaned me
'220,000 to rebuild, and our success has been assured ever since.
Today we cut and saw 33 million bo.rd feet of lumber each year.
Ne have markets from coast to coast and we employ approximately 220
men on a year -round basis. 1 have served as senator from this county
for five terms. I have been a national committeeman from Idaho. ors.
Broom and i have traveled extensively and have a most of friends
from everywhere.
All in all we have had a lot of the worse and much more of the best.
Ne have ;one from a very rugged t3pe of existence to the very convenient
and modern. In retrospect, there is little if any that we would changa,� :.
The changes we have seen and in which we have ; rticipated have run
the Gamut from dogsleds. to airplanes, from sanitary facilities which
could be reached only on snowshoes to luxurious bathrooms,
from team logging sleighs to high trucks and tractors, from melt -.n,, snow
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for grater to an abundance of hot water from a tap. It was wonder: ul
experience to have lived in this age, and it is even more wonderful to
have made the change from a protected Eastern life to the rugged
challenging life in the remote pri Ative areas of Idaho.
4.yutobiography of Carl Elliott Brown
DATES
1899 Gradyated from New Hampton Institute
1899 to 1902 .forked in Brown Lumber Company Store in Ahitefield
1902 -karried to Ida Harrington
1903 To Idaho-- rri:-itive area -- mining
1904 Summer - Mining
1905 Summer - Mining
1903 'linter Selling surplus alfalfa Hay
1904 Winter Same as above.
1905 Winter Same as above
1907 Spring and Summer, Raising Sugar Beets
1907 Fall -- Survey Crew
1907 -08 riinter-- lMlines at Edwardsburg
1908 Summer-- 101ines contract for tunnelling
1908 'rJinter -- purchased halfway house and 1.1cCall- to- Edwardsburg Mail Rt.
1910 Purchased i�a,il Route McCall to ,Darren
1914 Purchased ',, interest in Hoff7& Bills L'ill -- Renamed it Hoff & Brown
Lumber Company
1940 Mill burned and rebuilt on new site.
1945 2 interest to my son i;arren H. Brown
1952 Mrs. Brown and I celebrated Golden 4edding Anniversary.
Children:
10 -rs. Elizabeth B. Harwood, McCall
Ir. :Darren H. Brown, McCall
Mrs. Dorothy B Beyerle, Boi -se
Mrs. lKargaret Davies, Nampa
Written By Grace McRae
IDA BRO19NfS PION +Z BACKGROUND
The year is 1909. It Is early su3maer and the sun is
hot. Mr. McRae and I are jogging along a dusty, mountain
road on the South Fork of the Salmon River, Vie are weary
from our three day horseback ride from YcCall. Presently
we come to a lovely garden spot, then a rose-covered cottage
with shade trees all around. We stop at the gate. A pretty,,
brown-haired, young woman comes to greet us. This is Ida
Brown as I first knew her.
A New England girl, daughter of a Baptist minister,
she had left her fine, old Ne.i Hampshire home and cast her
lot with her husband who had bought mining prospects in the
remote and rugged Big Creek Country in central Idaho. 'then
these prospects proved disappointing, Mr. Brown was forced
to take a mail contract from Warren to �dwardsburg to obtain
a livlihood. Thus they had established this home which also
served as a way station on the mail route. It was there
that 1:-,rs. Brown kept open house for all the prospectors and
mining people who travelled those long, hard trails. All
who stopped were assured a cordial welcomet good meals, and
comfortable beds. Most visitors were of necessity men and
it was a rare occasion, indeed, when L:rs. Brown could enter-
tain and visit with another woman.
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After a few years when it came time for their little
daughter, Elizabeth, to start school, they moved to McCall,
where 1-Tr, Brown secured a contract to carry the McCall- `,warren
mail.
At this time there were no modern homes on the shores
of Payette Lakes. The town consisted of a handful of crude,
frame dwellings. The Browns finally secured a small house
and Ida set to work at once to make it a home where they could
be comfortable and where their many mountain friends would
be w-elcome,
I looked forward with pleasure and anticipation to my
trips from Old Yeadows to stay with them. Their small home
radiated with cheerfulness, friendliness, helpfulness, and
fun. We would go to Sunday School where Ida played the organ
and lead the singing. In those days when a doctor was many
miles away, we often travelled by buggy down the valley to
see someone who was ill, Mrs. Bro,;m seemed to have an in-
tuition for medicine and knew many remedies for sickness.
Of her time and knowledge she gave willingly and was ever
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present with comforting words and deeds at times of misfortune
or death in the small community.
About 1913, they decided to put their roots do-an in
McCall and 11r. Brown purchased an interest in a sawmill on
the shores of Payette Lake,
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It was through Urs. Brown's efforts that Community
Church Services vrere started. In due time a modest church
was completed, sponsored by the Women's Church Organization
in which she was an active leader.
Fortune was kind in their new business venture and
soon, together, the Browns planned and built the lovely,
friendly home on the shore of the Take in which they have
lived some 32 years and in which their four children have
grown to man and woman -hood.
As the years pass their same wonderful hospitality
and generosity is shared with old friends and new. I,s of
yore, the old timers, miners, and prospectors co °pie to visit
and talk over days gone by. Here, too, their new friends
dro;:3 in for a chat, a dinner, or a lively bouquet from
Mrs. Brawn's flo =wer garden.
At all times from her early South Fork home to her
present one, Ida Bro.fn has stood for the good things in
life. It can truly be said, 'She has built her house by
the side of the road and has ever been a friend to roan'.
Mrs Dan C McRae
CARL E. BROWN
Idaho Daily Statesman
Carl E. Brown, senior citizen of McCall and owner of Brown's
Tie and Lumber company, is doing the work he loves to do, lumbering.
And he's been following that profession since 1915 when he bought out
Bert Bills, a partner of Theodore Hoff in the lumber business in McCall.
Brown has been a citizen of the Gem state for the past 47 years and his
lumber company is a sustaining factor of the village of McCall. He said
he had "just staggered around from job to job until I got what I wanted- -
the lumber industry. Took me until I was 37 years old just to find my-
self".
In the days when the Brown Lumber company was having its hard
times, Brown went back to hauling mail, something he had done before enter-
ing the lumber business, to earn enough money to meet the ihill payroll.
He hauled the mail from McCall to Cascade for $50. a trip, twice a week
and often through deep snow. In 1916 -17, he hauled the mail from Lardo
to Warren to meet mill expenses.
At the present time the company cuts 19 million feet of lumber
each year, ships many cars to Brooklyn, N. Y., and last year had a payroll
of $654,000.
He is a member of the Elks club and the Masons. One of his
hobbies is dancing and another is the game of bridge. His wife is the
former Ida Harrington, formerly of White Field, N. H. They have four
children: Elizabeth Brown Harwood, Warren Harrington Brown, Dorothy
Brown Beyerle and Margaret Brown Davies, and 10 grandchildren.
Here is Brown's creed: "Honesty is the foundation of a success-
ful life, keep your word at any cost with anyone to whom you give it,
whether it is to your banker or to your humblest employee".
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MOCALLIS BROWN VERSATILE
A versatile career in clerking, minings haulings surveying
mail carrying, limbering
grid politics records the success of
Valley Countyfs Senator Cerl Brown,, owner of the Broi.n-i 'LJe &
'-i Lrnber Company it McCall.
3rown cone to Idaho from New Hampshire '.n 1903 with a back-
gronndof experience clerk.-Il.ng in a generi;J storc but out to make
111s fo�-tune from mining gold. Furch.::sing a prospect in the Big
Creek niininE d-istrict froirt J. G. Green, Boise, he imnediately
started learning the mining game. He learned it thoroughly,, of
that there Is no doubt.Tho discourging factor was that the ed-
ucation cost him jl-'8000. '1I-icn 1�1.e hnd to start over again-broke.
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So Brown moved to Np-rtpa and started hauling hay. He purchas-
ed hay, sold it b,,_,led or loose. 3usiness was good. He was a
stalwart young man willinr- to wo3.-k hard and came out with %'1'2000
anal a set of five sound tc,@>',ds of horries. That was when he met
Fred 3?;eward..
An energetic fellow with a headful of ideas was Stewart.
He sold Brown on the idea of goift into a partnership to raise
sugar beets. With pooled capital and $2000borrowed from the
Bank of Nampa with a 12% interest they rented 100 acres of ff.ne
sugar beet land on Indi-in Creek near Nampa. But they did not
get rich.
That was the yeas of a Martial crop failure. They lost
their shirts and found t1 L
themselves, after sellinL off their horses
in debt $2000 to the bank. So Steward told Brown how he planned
on sttv-'ng him a thousand dollars.
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Steward had learned fast talk back in Boston and thought
talk ,Tas easier to dish out than money. 1'o Bank Cashier Givens
he went with a story saying that he would take reponsibility
for hald of thE partnersh 'p debt if the bank divide it
into two notes of a thousand dollars each, one for eachof the
p,,:'.rtne•s. Know-.LnE he would not pay bJ.s own note,, he thereb;r
relieved DPown of the responsibilty of assuming full parterships
debts and saved him the money Eis proriised. Steward E.ot J.nto
the bank deepen through mismvnaCement of a livery stable and
absconded -with mortgaged horses,, finally getting in tho cluthes,
of the law. After four years of fenagling and scrimping, Brown
and his wife ri-,anagod to pay off their share of the debt.
Leaving Nampa, Brown got a snrVey job at M a month, send-
ing his salary to his wife who I)a::d off X10 interest 1.1us the
principl- on their thousand dollar note and managed to live; on
the balpnco..Then he went back to mining, knowing the business
well because of extensive but expensive experience.
Opporturity beckoned when the star route mail contracts
were 'let. Brown secured the contract from Warren to Edwardsburg
in 1909 and 1910. At the cnd of this period he eas underbid and
lost the contract but cleaned tip his n:" .te at the Nampa Bank and
cleared his records. Interest for thl.", last two years had been
reduced from 12% to 10%. Clearing of the rote gave Brown a
sound reputation for honesty.
When he lost the Edwardsburg contract, Brow.n bid for and won
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the stgr route mail carry-,'-ng job from Warren to Lardo., carrying
the nail this toute for four Then he --as
on Years. underbid
again by a man named Zumwaldt,
It Jas at this time that Brown's career as a lumber man
was started. `fire old McCall mill had burned down in 1913 leaving
Hoff & Son severly flattened. Hoff induced Burt Bills to put
X1500 int-- rebu_;'_lding the P.All,, purchasing equipment from a
Weiser firm for 43000 with 6 500 down. This X500 plus V1000
BROWN VERSATILE, CONIT.
• balance -11 T3111ts savings, paid the cost of re-establishing the
mill. Bill Is and Hoff -:uarrelcd Violsntl-,v. Finally Bills left
selling his Interost to Brown for $5500. To sceure h^.If interest
cost Broijn a total of 1 0 d. 000 because Bill's ha
lost partial control by this time.
For several cars Hoff and Brown found desperate going to
keep the sawtr.111 on its feet. When Zumwaldt went broke on his
star route in 191-6 19ro-Arr, again bid -arid got the route, uslnr;
t1li s in"mo to bolster losses at thy; mill and to help support
his P-Tiii3y. For the next two years he hauled ma l - 1 while pressing
every minute to kec., -) th,5, Y--,ill from cloosing. A fortunate break
wh--',-eh oaved the day for the Brown family was -the result of a t
tough 111inter L-i 1917. Sev-re landslides crd4.1)plod vailro-sd connee-
tj`.ons out of Cascade. With r,)a('As blocked and mail routes cril):,Ip-d
Brown Recepted a contract bo haiLl. tha nail t4ice a week be-
tween tho two toi-zis at X50 a trip. In seven Vreeks, by paying
expenses with passengers and. ex-,rr(,sso he cleared $700- This life
saver was nade possible because Brown knew from previous ex-
perience, how to rim horses through blocked roads aver snow
with the use of a wooden snowshoe i-hhich he contrived for horses
Snowshot-s for horses may seem like a jokes but they proved to
bw a boon to Brown,
Brown ,lmd Hoff found a hard uph.4.11 pull for a niviber of
years but evontuilly, qot things in shape, On Dec. 15,, 1939,
Brown bought out Hoff s intcrest and changed the naune of Lhr
oawznill to the Br6wn Tie & Lumber Co., as it remains today.
• Me mill which out 10,,000 board foot in a ten-hour day now cuts
602 000 board feat in an eight-hour day.
A specialty developed by Brown as a r suit of ei;:sperJi-cents
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in building cabins for sxnner resort homes is thetie cabs .n made
From reject tles. `.These railroad tiios are slotted and trimmed
so thoy can be readUy fitted toCether for a solidly consteucted
inexponsivo and easily built cabin. lie 11.3 now consider i__ng the
davolopnent of a ready-made cabin from this invention.
In 1923 and again in 1927 and 19C29, Carl Brown -oias olected
seiator from Valley County. Today he is still an active r-sl.c3ent
of McCall., managing tho sawmill, helping his employees ,.,ith
their �-,wesana` L problems
aand having as much fun -iq any of the
Younger fellow. The man iAho invented wooden. snoi-T-Thoes for horses
is an old-timer who shows no signs of grow1ing old.
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CA.0 nROWN MARK GOLD 11t1 1VEDDING A7 PAFiTY
Au7ust 23, 1952 By Hcler ;_ller
sir. and Mrs. Carl E. Brown eelebrated their -olden vveddinn
anniversary l"nur "day, when. they sere nostS to 1000 �ue� +.� at an everinr,
onen house.
Included in the west list were the nioneer residents of the
village, the 200 i3rown employees and their families, �`IcCall friends, and a
large number of summer colony residents from Boise, Caldwell and Nampa.
Soecial out -of -town r7uests were . r. a -d. lv'Irs. Ronald On.ratling of Salt
Lake City, Julius Stul:nan of i4eva 'ork City, - -ir. a, d stirs. Paul Drew of Omaha,
v: braslia, r. and 1vlrs . Dan IIc ae and LIobert lac tae of Stibnite, any?. iT r�, . J.
Blake of Caldwell.
j:3efore the open house, kr. an ! ivirs. Brown were entertained by
t- ei Bona and daughters with a famil7T dinner z)arty at Sl:iore Lode. Present
were -r. ca'n(i „`!rs. S. 1,7. Harwon(I, Stan and Ann; M-. al-id ';its. 'Marren Brown,
Frank a, -)^ Diane, all of ilrlcCall; 1 -r. and iplrs. TtzctT Beyerle, Carol and
Susan, of Boise and ;sir. and Mrs. Ho-mer :Davies and children of Namna.
LIVED I4 IDAHO: All but one of the 50 ?ears of the Brown's
ma.,riage have been s ,)ent in Idaho, part in the Boise valley, most of it
in the Payette Lakes area. The have watched Idaho grow up from a brawling
youngster of a state, whose scows lay unbroken in winter over all 4- -he
mountain -roads and whose sorina mud sucked hio -deep at fre-i. -'-t a -ivQrs
wi t:n thei - four horse teams. They have watched the rut'(-ed freight trails
change to oaved roads and have seen the coming of the railroads and motor
trucks to the inland areas.
The Browns came to Idaho from New Hamnshire in 1903 to look
after family m1nin7 interests in the failing Thunder Idlountain district.
The mines didn't pan out and 1.`ne bought an alfalfa meal nlant near Nampa.
When the olant went broke, i -s owner bought a team of horses, baled the
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alfalfa, and hauled. it to town to sell, gradually !,orkln-� into the hay
business.
GREW SUGAR BEETS: With the money accrued, the Browns invested in the
sugar beet business, renting 100 acre-, on Indian creek near Nampa. A
a
Qartial crop failure th^ first year ade this venture that nut them into
debt tha!-. took the -:i three --ears to repay. ,�'rs Brown lived in Nampa in one
room with her first baby while her husband snow -shoed a. hundred miles
over cecesh summitt, through Warren, and over Elk summitt to Ramey ridqe
where he found a ninint job at `1'75 a - Month. Mrs Brown joined . her husband
in the siring and both of them worked to rena- thei debt.
"Those were pretty hard t:i-rles vie 'pad in the :mountains," Carl
Bro ,,n said. 'liiirs. Brown didn't see another woman for six months. We bought
a little shoe strinm ranch on the South Fork and Mrs. 3rovrn kebt "stogie ers"
at 50 cents a .teal, 50 cents a bed. She churned butter to sell at 50 cents
a ooun� and we sold eg> s at, 25 cents a dozen. tr
GUESTS WERE WELL- KiORN: Many interesting people were "stooeers"
during the summer days, glad to eat Ida 3rown's cookin7 be ti,��een fishing
and huni_.ing exneOitions. Margaret Cobb now ial.rs Ailshie, publisher of the
Idaho Statesman net�,snaner, was a "stoner" as were ir'r. a-nd firs. Madill Me-
Corni ck of Chi camo .
Carl brown earned -ronpT T on the side durin.r° those hard � -e „rs
by carr77in7 the mail by dog team between Edwardsburg and Warren through
snov.; so deep that he often had to break trail on snow shoes for the dons.
Underbid on the nail route., he came ou.t of the mountains to buy the mail
contract from Lardo to Warren.
BOUG'gl” LU�;;rE.Z BUSI1ESS: Underbid again he invested the money
saved from mail routes in the lumber business in r cCall. Pa,yetto Lakes
I-in wcts bein.m built at tha F- time, and the new lumber cn- nan;r won the
PAYETTE LAKES STAR, JUNE 277 1957
Carl Brows Honored At
Rotary "Lumberjack" Program
A TRIBUTE FROM
AN OLD FRIEND
As you know, 1 have known
Carl Brown for a great many
Years and I surely highly respect
Carl and the Brown family, and
it has been a lot of satisfaction
to me to see Carl maintain the
Position that he now holds, es.
pecially since I know the struggle
that he had in the early 'teens to
get started and get on his feet.
It has been a pleasure through
the years to deal with a man who,
when he gave his word, you did
not need a written contract or
any other confirmation. This type
of man is getting more and more
scarce and many of us like to re-
member the times in the develop-
ment of the West in our industries
when this integrity and the old
saying that, "a man's word was
as good as his bond" still exists.
Windsor J. Lloyd
Forest Resources Stud;ed
It was "Carl Brown Day" at the
Payette Lakes Rotary Club last
Friday noon. The meeting was
held in the big dining room- at
Shore Lodge with a large crowd
of members and visitors attend-
ing.
The program was about forest
resources in the Payette Lakes
area and the timbermen "Lumber-
jacks" who work in the woods,
haul the logs and man the mills
and yards. Trees make news and
so do the men who work with
trees, "men to match the moun
tains."
Program Chairman Britt Nedry
arranged the timber resources
program and dedicated it to Carl
E. Brown, "The greatest Lumber -
jack of Them All," founder of the
Brown's Tie & Ur. Co., one of the
business leaders of Idaho. Carl was
unable to be present because of
confinement in a Boise Hospital
but his courageous spirit pervaded
the meeting. The chairman point-
ed out the economic value of the
timber industry to McCall, the
Payette National Forest, and
all of the related factors contribu-
ting to the large payroll here.
He also called attention to the
extensive civic activities of Carl
Brown and the Brown 'family
and their leadership in communi-
ty developments.
The speaker of the day was
I George Hjort, Boise, Vice- Presi-
1 dent of the Boise - Cascade Lum-
ber Co., in charge of production.
Mr. Hjort paid tribute to Carl
Brown as one of the leaders of
the lumber industry in Idaho. He
cited the predominating position
of the timber resources in Idaho,
second only to agriculture in dol-
]ar value, employing 12.000 peo-
ple with an annual payroll of $53,-
000,000. He told of the broad tax
base on lumber — on timber
lands, logs, mills, and inventory.
He explained the experiments be-
ing made to utilize the waste pro-
ducts, of the tremendous possi-
bilities for the "chip" products
in hardboards, pulp and chemi-
cals.
"Timber is a crop ", said Mr.
Hjort. "With good management
tree farm expansion and sound
conservation practices, our for-
ests will be an everlasting re-
source to this area and our
State."
Visitors at the luncheon were
Warren Brown, Joe Kasper, Brow-
nie Hoff, Les Ulmer, Pete Wal-
lace, all of McCall; Jack Morgan,
J. I. Morgan Logging Co., Bob
Day, New Meadows; Harry Flee-
nor, Harry Poulsen, and Julius
Shorlaks, Boise. At a special table
were Jayne Brown, Elizabeth Ned -
ry. Eva Boydell and Betty Har-
wood.
Ida Brown on right
Theoa, •ewniak
Bud Mason
Ronald C. Dunlap
W. J. Dooley
Howard H. Meador
Eino M. Arola
M. E. Heikkola
Matt Paananen
John Hillberg
Frank C. Woods
Martin Hoff
Warner Willey,
Dick Krahn
Brownie Hoff
Walter J. Smith
FREIND CARL BROWN
the known you thru the years
birthday, we give three cheers.
health, when the going got rough,
rays proved that you are tough.
JNGRATULATIONS _ THE OLD TIMERS_
David H. Jordan
Ben Lawrence
Robert Bruce
Alfred Jussil.a
Bud Coonrod
Harvey Bloom
Keith Webb
J. D. Moore
Glenn Burnside
Edwin J. Fors
Lawrence Dutton
Don Sanford
Lee Bruno
William Coburn
Les Ulmer
Henry Allen
Glenn Wright
John Takala
Dori Willis
Harry Krahn
Fred Brown
Milt, Hansen
Ernie Ward
Cash Crawford
Bob Brandenburg
C. R. M. Johnson
Red Gantz
Hud Henderson
Fred Adkins
Bill Harp
Tex Chitwood
J. L. bRISCOLL
P. O. BOX 830
BOISE,IDAHO
October 18,1965
Mrs. Betty Harwood
Box 605
McCall,Idaho
Dear Betty:
Thanks for your letter of October 15th..
I am pleased to learn that Mrs. Jellison will stay
on at .150.00 per month, paying; her own grocery bill.
I believe that will be money well spent until we can
get things rolling a little further down the road.
I think probably under the circumstances we
should pay the fuel and power bill. They cani!t amount
to very much so I would rather pay them than to have
any question on the subject raised with Mrs. Jellison.
JLD:mce
Carl E Brown
Statesman oct 13 1951
Statesman Oct 13
CARL E. BROWN, senior citizen of McCall and owner of
Brown's Tie and Lumber company, is doing the work
he loves to do, lumbering. And he's been following that
profession since 1915 when he bought out Bert Bills, a
partner of Theodore Hoff in the lumber business in
McCall. Brown has been a citizen of the Gem state for
the past 47 years and his lumber company is a sus-
taining factor of the village of McCall. He said he had
"just staggered around from job to job until 1 got what
I wanted —the lumber industry. Took me until I was
37 years old just to find myself." In the days when the
Brown Lumber company was having its hard times,
Brown went back to hauling mail, something he had
done before entering the lumber business, to earn
enough money to meet the mill payroll. He hauled the
mail from McCall to Cascade for $50 a trip, twice a
week and often through deep snow. In 1916 -17, he
hauled the mail from Lardo to Darren to meet mill
expenses. At the present time the company cuts 19
million feet of lumber each year, ships many cars to
Brooklyn, N. Y., and last year had a payroll of ,$654,000.
He is a member of the Elks club and the Masons. One
of his hobbies is dancing and another is the game of
bridge. His wife is the former Ida Harrington, formerly
of White Field, N. H. They have four children: Eliza-
beth Brown Howard, Warren Harrington Brown, Doro-
thy Brown Beyerle and Margaret Brown Davies, and 10
grandchildren. Here is Brown's creed: "Honesty is the
foundation of a successful life, keep your word at any
cost with anyone to whom you give it, whether it is to
your banker or to your humblest employe."
LY STATESMAN
i Carried bail
le'rMountain
pleased to present two old pho
an. tographs which revive memories
ley of those days of long ago.
)ic- One of them is a photo of the
rly old Schaefer homestead on the
south fork of the Salmon river.
ly, The site is said to be where a
detachment of U. S, cavalry
y camped while enroute to the
I Bib' Creek country where ram.
paging Sheepeater Indians were
captured in 1878. This is the
place where Mr, and Mrs: Carl
Brown made their home when
Carl back - packed the mail into
Edwardsburg via Elk Creek
summit in 1909 -10 — a treacher.
ous, snowblanketed route of
howling blizzard conditions,
with every mile a gruelling
task.
The companion photo shows
Carl's log home on Logan creek
in the Edwardsburg area where
he was engaged in mining op.
erations for a time just pre -
ceeding the turn of the century.
It depicts an old timer "Boston"
Brown, and Mr, and Mrs.
Brown's daughter Betty (now
Betty Harwood) in the fore-
ground.
Carl, who was a rugged char
acter, seemingly able to cope
with the rigorous task that Un=
cle Sam demanded in the car-
rying of mail into remote iso-
lated areas, asked for and got
the mail contract out of Lardo
at Payette Lakes, via Burgdorf
Hot Springs to Warren during
1911 through 1914. It was a
route over which it was neces-
sary to use dog teams, snowshoe
equipped horses and skis or
"webs." Thus it was that Carl
Brown worked his way, unknow-
ingly, into a successful lumber
business, and thence into the
Idaho Legislature where he
served as senator from Valley
county for several sessions.
Retired from active manage -
ment in the Brown Tie and
Lumber company which he
helped found, Carl at age 83,''
may reminisce back to those
.pioneer days just preceding the
Thunder Mountain gold boom;
to the days when the vast wil-
- we now call primi -I
BOISE, IDAHO, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 8,1961
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OLD SCHAEFER HOMESTEAD on the Salmon river's south fork served as the home
Mr, and Mrs. Carl Brown in the early 1900's when he was backpacking mail into the rev
Edwardsburg area.
-LUU CABIN on Logan creek served as the home of Mr. and
Mrs.' Carl Brown at the turn of the century. Shown in this
Photograph taken early in the 1900's are an old -timer, known
as `Boston" Brown'and $etty, daughter of the Carl Browns.
now Mrs. Betty Harwood.
Carl Brown - (to a Nampa associate) - 1956
It has occurred to me that you should be interested in things that have
happened in your community.
It was just 50 years ago in Nampa that Carl and Ida took the first steps
that were to lead them to and across the frontiers of success. It is also
interesting to note that that first step toward success was a failure.
In 1906 the sugar factory opened in Nampa and the crop of beets in that area
was excellent. In 1907 Carl decided to make his debut into the field of
farming and ran headlong into a partial crop failure. No one made money that
vear -- particularly the Browns. When the smoke cleared away and everything had
been sold - Carl and Ida owed the Bank in Nampa $1,000.00. Interest was at
the rate of 12%. No work was available in or around Nampa that fall, but
Hub Frier of Big Creek assured Carl that if he could and would snowshoe the
90 miles from McCall to Ramey Ridge he would give him a job at $75.00 per
month and his board. Carl made the trek, accepted the job and the paychecks
were sent to Ida at Nampa. She religiously paid the $10.00 a month interest
on the $1,000.00 note.
In June of 1908 Ida and one and one -half year old Betty made the trip to Big
Creek (then called Edwardsburg) by horseback. The following spring mining
played out in the back country and Carl began carrying the mail from Warren
to Edwardsburg. It was 40 miles and a round trip had to be made in four days.
The route covered altitudes of from three to nine thousand feet and snow depths
in the spring were from 0 to 22 feet. Government pay was $75.00 a month for
one trip in the winter and $150.00 a month for two trips a week by saddle
and pack horse in the summer. There were no fringe benefits, no expense
accounts, no deductions - -it was catch your own rabbits and feed your own
horses. Ida boarded and roomed travelers at 50¢ a bed at the old Jack Shafer
homestead on the South Fork. Carl augmented the family income by packing
supplies to prospectors at 3¢ a pound and early in 1910 they were able to
pay off the bank in Nampa. Because they had faithfully paid their interest
and had paid off the principal within what was then a very reasonable time,
thev had established a reputation for honesty and a basis for credit that
was to be the foundation for their considerably more than modest success in
the years to come. Financing their operations since those years has involved
large sums - yet they have never been refused credit. T1,eir ao:i:»ty and
integrity has never been questioned and by the same token, they have never
failed to do exactly as they promised they would do.
We, in McCall, are extremely proud of our Senior citizens; we are proud of
what they stand for and of what they have done. On this 50th anniversary
of their migration, we want to thank the people of Nampa for their faith and
trust in these wonderful and gracious people and for the circumstances that
made the Browns our senior citizens and not yours.
"The greatest lumberjack of them all -- founder of Brown's Tie and Lumber."
"It has been a pleasure through the years to deal with a man who, when he
gave his word, you did not need a written contract or any other confirmation.
This type of man is getting more and more scarce and many of us like to
remember the times in the development of the West in our industries when this
integrity and the old saying that 'a man is as good as his bond' still exists."
October 18, 1965
Mr. Harley !1. McDowell
Idaho Buildin'-:,r
Boise.Idaho
Dear "Ir. McDowell:
Last week you advised me in connection with
our arrangement for you to appraise the Ida H. mown
home in McCall,, th,,t you would be in McCall Friday
next, the 22nd, on another appraisal and. that you
WoUld make the Brown appraisal at that time.
You should contact ?;Irs. Ted Harwood or her
husband, Ted Harwood direct to make arrangements to
7o thru the house.
Vert; urs,
JLD: -nee
L. -)ri coll, ---xecLtor
Estate f Ida. 11. Brown,rjecld.
cc: Mrs. Ted Harwood
'1cCall,,Idaho
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J. L. DRISCOLL
P.O. BOX 630
BOISE,IDAHO
October 18, 1965
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Harwood
McCall, Idaho
Mrs. Dorothy Carolyn Beyerle
Rimrest Apartments
109 Crescent Prim Drive
Mrs. Marcaret J. Davies
► 305 West Emerson Street
Seattle, Washington 070,199
Dear Girls
You have or will shortly receive a notice from the Probate
Court of Valley County instructing: you to appear at the hearing
for Admission to Probate of your mother's will at 9:00 A.M.
November 10th. There is no reason why any of you need to appear,
unless --
(1) You want to contest part or all of the will,
which I know you don't; or
(2) You simply want to be there to hear the
proceed.i ngs .
The notice or order by the Probate Court is siraply part of the
requirements of the statute.
The hearing itself is purely perfunctory where there is no
contest. It mia;ht� last as much as thirty minutes. Furthermore,
the hearing will not be at 9:00 A.M. that morning. That hour, again,
is just the common practice of the Probate Courts to set all such
hearings at 9:00 A.M. Actually, it will probably be held about
11:00 A.M. by which time fir. Roden and I can drive up to Cascade..
One think, however, will be required and this part of the
letter is addressed. primarily to Betty. We will need the two
witnesses, Mrs. Jack Hayes and Mrs. Jellison present at the hearing.
Will you, Betty, arrange with them to be present? I don't know
whether Mrs. Jellison or Mrs. Hayes will want to drive down by
themselves or whether you will want to drive them down but in any
event, will you make the appropriate arrangements with them to be
there?
I will advise both you and them later at about what hour
the hearing will actually be held so that they won't have to corae
down and sit around waiting for some of tie rest of us.
I
Mrs. Elizabetil 3. Harwood et al ;72. 10 -1(S-65
!Normally we coo not call for a professional appraiser in an
ordinary estate but rely solely on the local appraisers appointed
by the Court. But since U is t kinq the home_as part of her
z= share of the estate, she will be charged with whatever value
the app_ raisers set on it. I therefore feel that for the protection
of all three of you and for the assistance of the three court appointed
appraisers, I should, in this instance have a professional appraiser
furnish. an appraisal. It will not bind the local appraisers to the
value he may set but it may be helpful to them. With these t: :?_oughts
in mind i have arranged with Harley McDowell of Boise, who is a
professional appraiser, owns property in 'HcCall and Blair has had
experience with him in mazinm other appraisals there in McCall, to
make an appraisal of your mother's house.
He will be in McCall Friday to make this appraisal. I know
Varren will be out of the city at that time and T am advised Blair
will, so, _Betty, do you suppose r can impose on you to make arrange-
ments for him to see the house and so forth so that he can furnish
this appraisal? i don't know just what hour of the .day he will want
to do this but I am addressing a letter to him asking him to contact
you direct on that question.
am arranr;ing for photographic copies of your mother's
will to be made and their will be sent along; to each of you in
Re
�L.))I scoll, Executor
Estate/of lda li. Brown, Dec' d.
AN AUTOGRAPH PARTY was held Saturday at Nampa's Carnegie Library on the occa-
sion of publication of Mrs. Grace Jordan's latest book, "The King's Pines of Idaho." The
book is largely about the Carl Brown family of McCall. Pictured at the event are
(from left) Mrs. Ernest Day, Boise, who created the book's cover; Mrs. Carl Brown,
McCall; Mrs. Jordan, who wrote the book; and three of Mrs. Brown's daughters: Mrs.
Tuck Beyerle, Boise, Mrs. Homer Davies, Nampa, and Mrs. Stanley Harwood, McCall.
(FREE PRESS PHOTO)
Idaho Sunday Statesman
The Carl Brown Family: Carl Brown, Warren Brown, Frank Brown, Charles Carl Brown
Carl Browns 80th birthday party
Carl Browns Mark Golden Wedding at Party
By HELEN MILLER
McCALL (Special) — Mr. and
Mrs. Carl E. Brown celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
Thursday when they were hosts
to 1000 guests at an evening open
house.
Included in the guest list were
the pioneer residents of the vil-
lage, the 200 Brown employes and
their families, McCall friends, and
a large number of summer colony
residents from Boise, Caldwell and
Nampa. Special out -of -town guests
were Mr, and Mrs. Ronald Sprat -
ling of Salt Lake City, Julius Stul-
man of New York City, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Drew of Omaha, Neb.;
Mr. and Mrs. Dan McRae and
Robert McRae of Stibnite, and
Mrs. T. J. Blanke of Caldwell.
Before the open house, Mr, and
Mrs. Brown were entertained by
their son and daughters with a
family dinner party at Shore
Lodge. Present were Mr. and Mrs.
• s r
S. W. Harwood, Stan and Ann;
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brown,
Frank and Dianne, all of McCall;
Mr. and Mrs. Tuck Beyerle, Carol
and Susan, of Boise, and Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Davies and children
of Nampa.
Lived in Idaho
All but one of the 50 years of
the Browns' marriage have been
spent in Idaho, part in the Boise
valley, most of it in the Payette
Lakes area. They have watched
Idaho grow up from a brawling
youngster of a state, whose snows
lay unbroken in winter over all
the mountain roads and whose
spring mud sucked hip -deep at
freight drivers with their four -
horse teams. They have watched
the rutted freight trails change to
paved roads and have seen the
coming of railroad and motor
truck to the inland areas.
The Browns came to Idaho from
New Hampshire in 1903 to look
• • •
wedding anniversary Thursday at an open house for 100 guests
in their McCall home6
after family mining Interests in
the failing Thunder Mountain dis-
trict. The mine didn't pan out, and
they bought an alfalfa meal plant
near Nampa. When the plant went
broke, its owner bought a team of
horses, baled the alfalfa, and
hauled it to town to sell, gradually
working into the hay business.
Grew Sugar Beets
With the money accrued, the
Browns invested in the sugar beet
business, renting 100 acres on In-
dian creek near Nampa. A partial
crop failure the first year made
this a venture that put them into
debt that took them three years
to repay. Mrs. Brown lived in
Nampa in one room with her first
baby, while her husband snow -
shoed a hundred miles over Secesh
summit, through Warren, and over
Elk summit to Ramey ridge, where
he found a mining job at $75 a
month. Mrs. Brown joined her
husband in the spring, and both
of them worked to repay their
debt.
"Those were pretty hard times
we had in the mountains," Carl
Brown said. "Mrs. Brown didn't
see another woman for six months.
We bought a little shoe - string
ranch on the South Fork, and
Mrs. Brown kept 'stoppers' at 50
cents a meal, 50 cents a bed. She
churned butter to sell at 50 cents
a pound, and we sold eggs at 25
cents a dozen."
Guests Were Well-Known
Many interesting people were
"stoppers" during the summer
days, glad to eat Ida Brown's
cooking between fishing and hunt-
ing expeditions. Margaret Cobb,
now Mrs. Ailshie, publisher of the
Idaho Statesman newspapers, was
a "stopper," as were Mr. and Mrs.
Madill McCormick of Chicago.
Carl Brown earned money on
the side during those hard years
by carrying the mail by dog team
between Edwardsburg and War4
ren through snows so deep that he
often had to break trail on snout
shoes for the dogs. Underbid on
the mail route, he came out of the
mountains to buy the mail con-
tract from Lardo to Warren.
Bought Lumber Business
Underbid again, he invested the
money saved from mail routes in
lumber business in McCall. Pay-
ette Lakes Inn was being built at
that time, and the new lumber
company won the contract to sup-
ply lumber, hauling from mill to
inn with four horse teams, and
wagons axle -deep in mud.
During all the ups and downs
of the business that has made a
successful and full life for the
Browns, they have kept to one
sound creed: "Be honest. Keep
your word at any cost with any-
one to whom you give it, whether
it is to your banker or to your
humblest employe."
Last Will and Testament
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'.:)vt ,1ndful of the' 'uncerLainty of tiuis life, dc, majco,
publish, FirtO doclarn this ''to be my Dast Will and Testaric it, P-.,3
follows
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be peAd as soar_ -.n practicable aftcr my clout1h, anJ all Valid
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1964 •
Amos Brown
Among the residents of Seattle once prominent in her public affairs who have
now passed to that "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,"
is numbered Amos Brown, one of the honored peoneers of the city, whose labors were
od material benefit in the improvement and upbuilding of this beautiful metroplis.
A feeling of the deepest regret spread through the city as the news of his demise
was received by those who knew him, not so much because of the part which he tool:
in business life, not so much for the aid w?iich he gave to public enterprises, but
because the sterling traits of his character had endeared him to those with whorl he
was associated and because his benevolent spirit and generosity were so often and yet
so unostentatiously manifested.
Mr. Brown was born in Bristol, Grafton county, New Hampshire, on the 29th of
July, 1833 and died April 8, 1899. His parents were Joseph and Relief (Ordway) Brown.
The father was also a native of iyew Hampshire and was of Scotch and English ancestry,
the family, however Navin bsen founded in America at a very early day in the history
of the old Granite state. Joseph Brown was a prominent lumber manufacturer with
extensive mills on the Merrimac river, where he dealt in masts and spars and conducted
a general millLng business, which he superintended until sixty years of acre. He was
then succeeded by his sons, who carried on the business for any years, the enterprise
proving a very profitable one.
Amos Brown w,s reared to habits of industr*T and as work was considered more
important than study in those days, his opportunity for acquiring and education was
extremely limited, although in the school of experience he gained much valuable
knowledge. At the early age of ten years he began work in the lumber camp and later
was employed at driving the logs on the river, becoming a hardy fearless and daring
youth. Ile soon excelled in this occupation, becamean expert in t1is line of business
and was thus enabled to command the highesyprice for labor of that Character. Sub-
sequently he worked in the mills and rose from one position to another until he was
mad superintendent and possessed a thorough and practical knowledge of the business
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in all its departments, both in principle and detai. Leaving home at the are of
twenty -one years, he followed lumbering up to 1858 when the Fraser mines gold excitement
broke out, and desirous of rapidly acquiring a fortune in the gold fields he left
for the northwest, after selling his interests in the east. Going to New York he
secured steerage passage, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, to Victoria, British
Columbia, paying two hundred and twenty -five dollars for a continuous passage. The
voyage was uneventful save for the discomfort of over- crowded vessels, but suffering
no accidnets and little delay, he eventually reached Victoria, there to find the
gold bubble had exploded and that the hopes of thousands were doomed to bitter dis-
appointment. The town was crowded with suffering starving humanity. Disappointed
but not disheartened, hsr. Brown began looking about for work, and believing that he
might utilize his %nowledge of lumbering, he at once sailed for Port Gamble, where
he found ready employ-nent at seventy -five dollars per month and expenses. During
the first year he had charge of a logging camp and then purchased an interest in
logging teams and secured contracts with the talling companies to furnish them with
looms.
This business he carried on successfully for two years and then sold his interest
and returned to the emplo-7 of the company with which he had previously worked on salaay.
He occupied various positions of trust until 1865 when he resigned in order to visit
his old home in New 1ampshire.
In 1859 without visiting Seattle, Mr. Brown had been induced to purchase property
on Spring street, between Second avenue and the water front, and in 1861 he m ade his
first visit to the to,M, In 1863 in connection with M. R. Maddocks and John Condon,
he built the old Occidental Hotel, on the present site of the Occidental block, and
this hotel was conducted for two years by Messrs. Ma' docks, Brown and Company, at the
end of which time he sold his interest to John Collins. In September, 1967 following
his visit to his old hone in New Hampshire, 111r. Broom returned to Seattle and entered
into partnership with I. C. Ellis, of Olympia. Ile conducted a lumber business in
that city until 1882 and alas very successful in the conduct of the enterprise, a large
business bringing to him an excellent financial return. For ten years he was in
partnership with tor. 73llis and after that was alone. In 1832 he sold out and from
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that time until his death practically lived retired, merely giving his supervision
to his invested interests, which, owing to increased values and extensive operations
in real estate, had grown to considerable proportions. Up to the time of his death
he reatined large interests in Seattle property, in addition to having extensive
tracts of timber in several counties adjoining the sound.
In his political views Mr. Broom was an enthusiastic Republican and in his early
life was an active participant in political work, doing everyning possible to promote
the success of his party and secure the adoption of its principles, but in later
years he left the party wort; to younger men. Ile was very public - spirited and co-
operated in many movements and measures for the general good and for the improvement
of Seattle. Ile served the community in various positions of responsibility and no
trust reposed in him was ever betrayed to the slightest degrees. He served as a mamber
of the city x council ,,nd for two years was a state official, acting as a director
of the Stsilacoom Insane Asylum. lie was most generous and benevolent, his generosity
amounting almost to a fault. Any tale of distress awalcened his ready sympathy and
was immediately followed by an impulses to a-:sist in any way which he could.
In the fall of 1867 1r. Brown, was united in marriage to Bliss Annie 14. Peebles,
a native of New York, and the same fall they erected their cotta;e on t he cornar of
Front and Springstreats, which district was then almost an unbroken wilderness.
In the family were five children: Alson L., of th_a firm of Kinnear R Brown, real estate
a;ants of Seattle; Brownie, tree wife of 21. Kinnear, her brother^ partner; Ora,
Anna and Helen, all at hors. 'ale children were provided with liveral educations
and the sucess of the father enabled hire to 17,ave his family in independent financial
circumstances. Mrs Brown has erected a magnificent re,icletic� in oil(: o" the _� ;t
Jistri.Cts of tiles Cl.ty a'w i:1111.3 `landso %r).'s a.')ode is C lei)? - >.i:? for i. s attract:l.v(3 socl.aj
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Tian death claimed lir. 3ro -i-ni, one iiho knew i:�'.? wrote o:� "Ti', phe passing
of Amos Brown the sounc country, loses one of its best pioneer citizens. For over forty
years a citizen and actively identified as he was with the growth of the country,
his death cannot be considered in any other light than as a loss to the community.
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He was public - spirited and interested in any movement for the promotion or advance -
vent of measures for the general good and he was scrupulously honest and upright in
his dealings with his fellow men. The punctual liquidation of a debt or obligation
was one of the cardinal principles of his character. Liberal and benevolent, he was
well known for his generosity, yet his giving was always without ostentation or dis-
play. When but a boy he exhibited this same generous s-)irit and T °indly solicitude
for othars, and often when w^t, cold and hungry himself, he would carry-Wood and food
to a poor widow, 1.7110 lived n•aighbor to his parents, befora providing; for his own
comfort. 'He always tool; a_. livel�r inter st in young r2erT � d aided many in securing
positions Where tl!e? could, advarce tT?eir o ?,tz inter,�sts th-011 :1* 1L- f2'-ice an,l
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Iidiats 1�3 a. _ ;,e nev.r t:Di% A-,?antage of them or Vetrayed their confidence '1e
w�17- loved and t TSte b -, t ;gym. He always had a kindly fe eling for the unfortunate
and erring and of-ten vy, an 'ran arrested for vagrancy or -trifling offences he
securad their release, pledging lii*aseli to f .lrnis'.. 'I _T1 and 53co13 respon-
si ?1L for t�b�-�. It is plersi:z to .
:10'7 tli.�� LS .:.�:1dn3 3 was ciat. a, 11 7,2110 -1
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to that band Of strong, uc:lr- ral_a'1't, u'1:rr V`r ;' `O "'r�V�•`..�.� n , ,
ment of the notthwest, and Nr. Bro:an
also lived to take and active part in building the superstructure of the great
co- Maonwealth through the advancement of one of thn leading cities west of the Rockies.
Copied from
A VOLT -R.E. OF � 7,210IRS AND GENEALOGY
OF
RRPR3SENT.',TIV3 CITIZENS
TIlF CITE' OF SF.ATI'LR AND
CO T dP" OF MU
WA.ST? IIdGTON
THS LS TS PTMISTiII1G CO.
OF 1903
1902
Virgil DeWitt Harrington oof the class of 1902 passed away January
18th last, after sixty -five years of a happy, active, useful life.
"Bill ", as he was known to all of +022 early decided on his life work.
Even when in college he had. started, on his career in the hotel business,
and he learned it from the ground up. Beginning first as a bell-hop, he
later became clerk, then office manager; then having determined to learn
the business thoroughly, he went back into the kitchen and worked up from
checker to steward. Shortly after his graduation, he became assistant
steward at Randall Hall, Harvard University, and shortly thereafter he
was engaged by Phillips Academy at Andover to take over the management
of the student dining commons there, and. see if he could make it pay its
way. At the time he took over, it had been an expensive liability to
the academy, but "Bill" made it pay, and was so successful and so univer-
sally liked that he was ultimately made general superintendent of grounds
and buildings and. purchasing agent. While there he also took over the
management of the Oceanic Hotel at the Isles of Shoals, then owned by the
Unitarian Association, and still later, along with these duties, took over
the management of the Ocean. Wave hotel at Rye North Beach, and afterwards
purchased it and changed the name to the ha.rrington House. In all these
ventures he was uniformly successful. In 1931 he was retired by Phillips
Academy, and thereafter devoted his whole attention to the hotels at
Rye and the Isles of Shoals. At about this time he bought a large farm
near the Harrington House, completely remodelled it, and made it a
delightful and modern home, where he lived at the time of his decease.
Notwithstanding his many duties he nevertheless found time to take
an active part in the work of the communities in which he 1'.ved, and gave
liberally of his time and substance to those causes in which he was
interested. He was a member of the New nampshire Hotel Mens' Ass +n,
and. the Rotary Club, the Yacht Club and the Warwick Club, all of Ports -
ipouth, N. H. He also served as chairman of the Portsmouth rationing
board and just prior to his death had been elected chairman of the Red
Cross for the town of Rye, N. H.
In 1905 he married Alice M. Howard of Cambridge, Mass. Four children
were born of this marriage, all. of whom survive him: Mrs. James Wilson,
of Port Washington, N. Y., Mrs. Frederick Farr of Westfield, N. J.,
Howard, manager of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Warren, who is
also a Bates gradn..ate, now with the DuPont Company at Oak hidge, Tenn.
His wife passed away some years ago after a long illness, and in 1941
he married Ethel A. Hitchcock, of Andover, Mass., who survives him.
ne was always a loyal son of Bates and although he was rarely able to
attend the class reunions in June owing to the great press of business at
that time due to Commencement duties at Andover and the opening of his
summer hotels, he was always a generous contributor to the class expenses.
At the time of his death he was class president.
Boy and. man, "Bill" harrington was a friendly person. To that fact
plus his never flagging energy and his boundless good humor was due his
success In life. be classed among his friends many in the seats of the
mighty, and no less was he a friend to those of low estate. I have never
known him to refuse to do a favor for any person if it was within his power,
and he was never too busy to give a joyous welcome to an old fttand. He
still lives in the hearts of all who knew him. Those spiritual qualities of
kindness, generosity, helpfulness and friendliness which he so abundantly
manifested throughout his entire life, can never die
18hitefield, N.H.
4!:5/'76
Tear Betty Harwood;
Hope your weather is much
beLuer then purs we are hsving our March
weather now. Very cold and windy.
The Old Brown Homestead
has been sold to a man who just loves that
place. He will really make a show place out
of iL. He has gone through any books that
might have history about the Brown family,
he has been down to Concord to look up any
History regarding; the Brown family. He has
not been able to find out when your Grand
Father built the house. I told him I would
write you and see if you knew the year he
built.. If so would you let me know here.
I hope you are all well and
happy. My wife has been an invalid since
6I.
- With my kindest regards to
the Brown fanily, I am Sincerely,
f
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Payette Lakes Star 1950
HELEN MILLER Brown,
art E. Brown, ears of senior 1��z^� Keealls fa;
zen, counts n, years l' life in G ,
state of Idaho, 47 years craru-
A full of living as only a �;1; I bitten deep into Warren G. Brown. Prices were 50 cents a meal and To add to the difficulties, snow
pus and adventuresome marl can ! When he was 70, he urged Carl 50 cents a bed. She churned but - blocked the railroad line that win-
us
the years. to come out to Idaho in 1903 to ter to sell at 50 cents a pound in ter, and no lumber could go out
Carl Brown saw the hard years look into some mining interests in Warren —a big price for butter In to market. Carl Brown went back
the tail -end of the gold boon. the Thunder Mountain district. those days. Eggs we sold for 25 j to his mail hauling to earn enough
Thunder Mountain in that lusty The mine didn't pan out, and most cents a dozen. I got the contract I money to handle the pay roll at
d brawling young Idaho when of the family money was washed to haul mail between Edwards - the mill. He hauled the mail from
e snows of winter lay deep ana out with the sands in the gold pan. burg and Warren. Had two big McCall to Cascade for $50 a trip,
ibroken over all the mountain The father went to Nampa, dogs and a sled to cart the mail, twice a week through deep snow
ads, or mud in the Spring suck- where a real estate broker talked and I broke trail for the dogs on with six good logging horses pull-
! at the hips of team drivers as him into buying an alfalfa meal snowshoes. The snow was deep on ing the mail, and he himself on
ey urged sweating horses thru plant. The plant went broke, and •the level, and you never knew snowshoes. In 1916 -17, he hauled
e streets of McCall. He has young Carl saved what he could when a snowslide would rumble the mail from Lardo to Warren to
itched the mud tracks changed by buying a team of horses, balin^ down from the mountains." meet mill expenses.
paved roads, the rutted freight- the hay, and hauling it into Nampa Many interesting people were After the bad years times grew
g trails replaced by the rail- to sell. Gradually he worked into "stoppers" at the Browns in the easier. Indebtedness was paid off
,ad line and the huge motor the hay business, buying, baling, suinmer days of those years, stay- at 12% interest, and contracts roll -
uck. and selling. ing on to eat Ida Brown's cooking ed in. In 1929, Mr. Hoff sold his
A modest man is Carl Brown, Chance stepped into the picture and to fish or hunt. Professor Hol- share in the company to Mr.
hose lumber industry has grown ` again. Mrs. Brown had her first den of Iowa State College, Ames. Brown. Under his management the
ntil it is the sustaining factor of I baby. Her trained nurse had a hus- Iowa, was a "stopper" as were Mr. business grew until its next set -
le village of McCall. Asked for band who interested Carl Brown in and Mrs. Madill McCormick of back when in 1931 -32 a bad finan-
n interview of his accomplish- a partnership in the sugar beet Chicago and Margarr_t Cobb, now cial slump caught the company
rents, he said, "What for? I've business. The Browns had made Mrs. Ailshie of Boise, publisher of with all its money tied up in a
of accomplished much with my enough money from the hay to in- the Idaho Statesman newspapers. million feet of logs and an order
fe —just staggered around from vest $2000 in sugar beets. They When Carl Brown was underbid on hand for only 30,000 ties. Many
ob to job until I got what I want - rented 100 acres on Indian creek for the mail route, he came out sawmills around the country clos-
d —the lumber industry. Took me near Nampa and 80 acres of hay of the mountains and bought the ed down, but Brown's Tie and
.ntil I was 37 years old just to and grain land for a place to live. mail contract from Lardo to War - Lumber Co. weathered the depres-
ind myself." A partial crop failure the first ren. In four years he was again sion.
Interest in lumbering was born year put the partners into debt underbid, and this time he pur- In July of 1940 the mill burned
n this vital man, but not bred. for exactly what the Browns has Phased an interest in a business to the ground, but so good was
[is Grandfather Brown owned a invested. The note of indebtedness that he had always wanted to en- Carl Brown's name in the sl
umber company and sawmill on was split by the bank into $1000 ter — lumbering. It was in 1915 this time that he was able I
he Pemingassett river in New for each partner. that he bought out Bert Bills, a row enough money on hi
iampshire. , Carl Brown's father, Mrs. Brown, a frail little woman partner of Theodore Hoff in the sonal note to rebuild his M.
Warren G. Brown, and an uncle of 94 pounds ( "and who's going to lumber business in McCall, using At the present time the cc
",vere both lumberman. The moth- believe that ?" asked Mrs. Brown, as capital the money saved from cuts 19 million feet of lumb(
er, Charlotte Elliot, a meticulous I listening) lived in one room in his years on the mail route and year, ships many cars to Br.
Scotch housekeeper, wanted none Nampa with her baby while her cash from the sale of horses and New York, and last year ha .
of the lumber business for her son. husband snowshoed 100 miles over equipment. The total was $3500. roll of $654,000.
She hated the smell of oxen, of Secesh summit, through Warren, The Browns moved into a tiny Many men have worked
sweat, of new cut wood, and dis- and over Elk summit to Ramey two -room house. ( "About the size lumber company for many
liked the sturdy class of people Ridge, where he could get a job of a chicken house," Mrs. Brown have built homes in McCal
who followed the lumber trade. working in a prospect mine at $7b i said) where Mrs. Bennett's home with the aid of the compan-
She put her son, Carl, into a gen- a month and board. The monthly now stands. Carl Brown was a pay on a home only duri
eral store as a clerk, where he checks were sent to Mrs. Brown, logger at last. summer working months,
tried to hill Ms desire to be a log - who paid to the bank the $12 in- The lumber company contracted i company never has taken .
ger. terest due each month on the to sell lumber to the Payette Lakes from an employee in E
Before his first marriage, War- note. In the Spring Mrs. Brown Inn, then being built, at $12 a troubles.
ren G. Brown at 22 had crossed .joined her huusband and the two I thousand feet, Four horses, axle j Warren Brown, who it
the Isthmus of Panama in 1852 to 'Fork: d hard for three years until deep in mud could haul only a'• his father's love of the
join the rush for gold to Califor- they had paid back the indebted - I thousand board feet per load. I business, has worked up ft
nia. Instead in San Francisco hell cress on both notes. "There goes a good bunch of, bottom. At 10 years ,of
purchased a logging and saw mill ; They lived first in a small cabin logs, Pa," Mrs. Brown interpolated, started to work on the pon
operation. Drifting up the coast oil the Crown Mining company's here, looking out the window at a he was in the woods. Now
to the Hood canal, he made a stake land. In January with the snow huge Brown's Tie and Lumber Co. able and eff cient lumberr
in Washington territory when its 12 feet deep they left the cabin truck as it thundered by with its has a half interest in the 1
population consisted of 7000 white and packed out to Warren. Five load of great logs bound for the and is vice president and
people and 21,000 Indians. Return- days later a snowslide came down mill. Powerful purring machinery manager of the company.
ing to New Hampshire he married the mountain and took the cabin rolling by on a smooth highway Carl Brown's creed in
his sweetheart, bought a farm, but with it. i seemed a long cry from those is a simple one, but soun(
after his first wife's death he re- I "Those were desperate times we days ;of mud and straining horses. heart of the good yellow pi
turned to Washington, made anoth- I had in the mountains," Carl Brown Business looked good for Hoff that he cuts.
er stake, and with it went back to I said, reminiscing as he leaned and Brown.until the Payette Lakes "Honesty," he says, "is t
New Hampshire to marry Char- back in his chair in his pleasant Inn decided it could pay only half dation of a successful lif
lotte Elliot. With his brother as I living room. "For six months Mrs. of its $3400 bill. vour word at any cost Witt
a partner he bought and operatea Brown didn't see another woman., 'We got only $6 a thousand feet to whom you give it, whet
the Brown Lumber company in and for six years she didn't see a for that lumber. We get approxi- to your banker or to yo
virgin timber near Whitefield on railroad. We bought a little shoe- mately $90 now," Carl Brown said. blest employee."
y
the edge of the White mountains. string ranch on the South Fork The lumber company was pretty
The mining bug, however, had and Mrs. Brown kept stoppers. j hard up after this material loss.
TL.o Tp,oa R nnta ni Idaho. New Grace Jordan Book
toru of
Rpown,j of McCall
N the summer resorLur
Sylvan Beach and looks acr
smoke of McCall's lumber mill
possible some whisper of the pic
Never could he catch more than
But one of Idaho's most talent.
ed writers has done it for him.
Grace Jordan's newest book,
"The King's Pines of Idaho,"
published by Binfords and Mort
of Portland, Ore., traces the
story of the Carl Browns, pio-
neer Idaho lumber familywhose
footsteps are important ones
throughout Middle Idaho, and
especially in McCall.
In an important sense this
book, Mrs. Jordan s third, is
about the roots of Idaho, but
Mrs. Jordan has done a beauti.
ful job of making a biography
read like a warmly humorous
and suspense - filled novel.
Mrs. Jordan says, "Aided and
encouraged by the caring of the
Browns, McCall has become a
uniquely satisfactory place to
live, self- dependent, spirited, and
beautiful. My hope has been to
make clear that life in a small
town can be not only amusing
and dear, but to the soul, satis-
fying. Here are people I have
come to love."
This kind of book has long
been overdue.
oss big Payette Lake to see the
drift across the sky, it is just
neer past may touch his heart.
a murmur of it, all by himself.
snowshoes for horses, lemon pie
in a lumber camp and the Pay
ette Lakes sea serpent.
Each chapter is full of fa
miliar faces and places for the
Idahoan . . . Boise, Ashton
Boulder, Sun Valley, Lardo
Roseberry, Meadows, Nampa..
the CCC camps, Shore Lodge
the Payette River . . . all th
Brown clan, including the Hai
woods, the Beyer 1 e s, th
Davieses ... Britt Nedry, Hela
Markley Miller, the Hoff!
Pearl Boydstun . the list i
endless and fascinating.
A, A, .
• s
hie nastrard made about 1y15.
There was a big celebratioi
in McCall on Saturday for Mr:
Jordan, and her husband, for
mer Governor Len Jordan. Th
first of her three autograp:
parties was held there in th
Carl Brown home.
The second autograph part
will be held Friday in the Boo
Shop in Boise, preceded by
WARREN STREET SCENE about 1905. 1 tie nuuamg
on the right has an ornamental front that appears in
numerous old pictures.
noon luncheon in the Owyhee The oil painting on the book
Hotel, to which the public is in- jacket is by Mrs. Emma Day,
vited and at which the Brown Boise artist. It pictures the
family will be represented. Brown Tie and Lumber Mill as
On Saturday an autograph it looked in 1940. Several photo•
party will be held in the City graphs are included in the book.
Library in Nampa. —(B. P•)
In her foreword Mrs. Jordan
wrote, "Idaho is still young and
vigorous. Its first permanent
ILLUSTRATION on book
jacket is from an oil
painting by Mrs. Emma
Day of Boise, shows 1940
view of Brown Tie and
Lumber Mill.
settlement, at Franklin, is but
a hundred years old. That
means that some of the men and
women credited with its develop.
ment still live. The story of one
such family, it has seemed to
me, should be put into type."
How well Mrs. Jordan has
succeeded in her intent is real.
ized by the reader more and
more as he follows young Carl
Brown through his life from
New England boyhood to the
domains of a western lumber
king.
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The book is built of anecdotes
that tell a story full of vitality.'
The author has taken great,
care to make the book strictly I
factual in its foundations, but!
she has shaped her work with
her own laughter and under -'
standing and her own love. of
the Idaho forest lands and peo-
ple. She does not merely de.
scribe the incidents. She makes'
the countless small tales and
tall tales into a richly detailed
pattern of family affairs ... a i
red evening cape, the holy mail'
The Star News Groups Page
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Wow bf Tl. rt�•N.w Y1MN Near
BROWN REUNION - Susie Beeede- Reams and
Ann Harwood- Blackwell look over thew unique
family tree on Saturday mm ing during a Brown
familt reunion atPonderom State Park Itwasdw
5ra6e1Mo..120oo for the deweudents of Cad
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e levels old McCall mill
office.
Fitzwater said Tuesday after-
noon that the cause of the fire is
under investigation, and that
nothing has been ruled out, in-
cluding arson.
He said it was difficult to put a
dollar value on the loss of the
structure, which was operated by
Boise Cascade Corp at the time
of its closure in 1977.
remember `other fire'
two
r for
[rren,
ast in
Street
i the
moke
n the
i had
ing,
t sad
ough
he sold the mill in 1964 to Boise
Cascade Corp., and even though
the mill had not sawed a log since
1977.
"A lot of sweat has gone into
that thing," said Brown, 71. "1
had hoped they would do
something to it.
Although Monday was a sad
day, the fire rekindled vivid
memories of the day 44 years ago
when a similar fire had much
more devastating results.
It was on July 16, 1940, that
the fully operational Brown's Tie
and Lumber Co. sawmill burned
to the ground.
That mill had been built in
1910 on what is now a vacant lot
along Payette Lake next to the
McCall Hotel. Carl Brown, War-
ren's father, bought into the mill
in 1914 and acquired it outright
in 1929.
"That was it; there was no in-
surance," said Brown, who was
28 at the time of the 1940 fire.
"We were broke, worse than
broke. The only thing that saved
us was good friendly bankers."
Brown remembered that it
took only a matter of days after
the fire that Joe Casper, who was
millwright for Brown, began
(Continued on Page A -2)
Bill Onweiler of McCall, a
member of Red Mill Group that
owns the structures, said the loss
was more of a nostalgic nature
than an actual dollar loss.
Red Mill Group is composed of
about 10 investors who bought
the mill from Boise Cascade in
1978 with the intentions of
developing the land into housing
and commercial shops.
"There's a building that was
the most painted and
photographed in the state, in-
cluding the Statehouse,"
Onweiler said.
The buildings had no fire in-
surance coverage, although the
owners held liability insurance,
he said.
Commenting on the fact that a
state investigator has been called
to the scene, Onweiler said, "I
think that's proper in light of the
way everything happened, and
the way it exploded.'
A nearby resident, Jackie
Sproat, was among the first to
spot the blaze shortly after 6 p.m.
Her husband, Jim, is credited
with first calling the fire depart-
ment.
"There was a lot of very black
smoke drifting out," she said.
"Our home is about 200 yards
north of the mill. We were just
engulfed in smoke."
After about five minutes, she
said the building erupted in
flames. At about the same time,
the wind changed direction slight-
ly, blowing sparks more to the
northwest, out over the lake,
Sproat said.
Fitzwater said 18 volunteer
firefighters responded to the 6:07
p.m. alarm, but by the time they
fought through deep, soft snow,
it was too late to save the
building.
Efforts then turned to saving
nearby homes and the sawdust
storage shed and boiler building,
which were damaged but not
destroyed, he said.
A flare -up in the sawdust shed
threatened that structure at about
5 a.m. Tuesday, but Fitzwater
said his crew handled it without
any problem.
Two firemen were kept on the
scene during the night to watch
for just that sort of thing, he
said.
The fire chief praised the way
his crew dealt with the difficult
conditions.
"I'm super proud of them," he
said.
Rumors that the fire had been
a controlled burn circulated im-
mediately around McCall. But,
the fire was not set as an inten-
tional controlled burn, Fitzwater
said.
Onweiler said he was convinc-
ed that someone started the fire.
"The thing has set through five
dry summers " without any fires,
he said.
Fitzwater borrowed a term
from arson investigators when he
described what caused the fire to
spread so rapidly.
"The `accelerant' was already
in the building," he said, in the
form of saw dust and oil that had
accumulated in the mill during its
years of operation.
State Fire Marshal Bill Wallis
said his investigator, borrowed
from the Idaho Department of
Law Enforcement because of a
temporary manpower shortage,
would come into the investigation
with an open mind.
It is sometimes impossible to
determine the cause of fires in
blazes that completely destroy the
structure, Wallis said. Narrowing
down a cause could take months,
he said.
Fitzwater said his reasons for
suspicion are based on several
(Continuer) on Page A -2)
No one was killed or injured as
the blaze completely engulfed
the 43 -year old mill building
izable
within 10 minutes of its
along
discovery, according to
J in a
eyewitness accounts.
even -
of
An investigator from the Idaho
'.I Fire
Department of Law Enforcement
Tues-
has been called in by Fitzwater
through the State Fire Marshal's
office.
Fitzwater said Tuesday after-
noon that the cause of the fire is
under investigation, and that
nothing has been ruled out, in-
cluding arson.
He said it was difficult to put a
dollar value on the loss of the
structure, which was operated by
Boise Cascade Corp at the time
of its closure in 1977.
remember `other fire'
two
r for
[rren,
ast in
Street
i the
moke
n the
i had
ing,
t sad
ough
he sold the mill in 1964 to Boise
Cascade Corp., and even though
the mill had not sawed a log since
1977.
"A lot of sweat has gone into
that thing," said Brown, 71. "1
had hoped they would do
something to it.
Although Monday was a sad
day, the fire rekindled vivid
memories of the day 44 years ago
when a similar fire had much
more devastating results.
It was on July 16, 1940, that
the fully operational Brown's Tie
and Lumber Co. sawmill burned
to the ground.
That mill had been built in
1910 on what is now a vacant lot
along Payette Lake next to the
McCall Hotel. Carl Brown, War-
ren's father, bought into the mill
in 1914 and acquired it outright
in 1929.
"That was it; there was no in-
surance," said Brown, who was
28 at the time of the 1940 fire.
"We were broke, worse than
broke. The only thing that saved
us was good friendly bankers."
Brown remembered that it
took only a matter of days after
the fire that Joe Casper, who was
millwright for Brown, began
(Continued on Page A -2)
Bill Onweiler of McCall, a
member of Red Mill Group that
owns the structures, said the loss
was more of a nostalgic nature
than an actual dollar loss.
Red Mill Group is composed of
about 10 investors who bought
the mill from Boise Cascade in
1978 with the intentions of
developing the land into housing
and commercial shops.
"There's a building that was
the most painted and
photographed in the state, in-
cluding the Statehouse,"
Onweiler said.
The buildings had no fire in-
surance coverage, although the
owners held liability insurance,
he said.
Commenting on the fact that a
state investigator has been called
to the scene, Onweiler said, "I
think that's proper in light of the
way everything happened, and
the way it exploded.'
A nearby resident, Jackie
Sproat, was among the first to
spot the blaze shortly after 6 p.m.
Her husband, Jim, is credited
with first calling the fire depart-
ment.
"There was a lot of very black
smoke drifting out," she said.
"Our home is about 200 yards
north of the mill. We were just
engulfed in smoke."
After about five minutes, she
said the building erupted in
flames. At about the same time,
the wind changed direction slight-
ly, blowing sparks more to the
northwest, out over the lake,
Sproat said.
Fitzwater said 18 volunteer
firefighters responded to the 6:07
p.m. alarm, but by the time they
fought through deep, soft snow,
it was too late to save the
building.
Efforts then turned to saving
nearby homes and the sawdust
storage shed and boiler building,
which were damaged but not
destroyed, he said.
A flare -up in the sawdust shed
threatened that structure at about
5 a.m. Tuesday, but Fitzwater
said his crew handled it without
any problem.
Two firemen were kept on the
scene during the night to watch
for just that sort of thing, he
said.
The fire chief praised the way
his crew dealt with the difficult
conditions.
"I'm super proud of them," he
said.
Rumors that the fire had been
a controlled burn circulated im-
mediately around McCall. But,
the fire was not set as an inten-
tional controlled burn, Fitzwater
said.
Onweiler said he was convinc-
ed that someone started the fire.
"The thing has set through five
dry summers " without any fires,
he said.
Fitzwater borrowed a term
from arson investigators when he
described what caused the fire to
spread so rapidly.
"The `accelerant' was already
in the building," he said, in the
form of saw dust and oil that had
accumulated in the mill during its
years of operation.
State Fire Marshal Bill Wallis
said his investigator, borrowed
from the Idaho Department of
Law Enforcement because of a
temporary manpower shortage,
would come into the investigation
with an open mind.
It is sometimes impossible to
determine the cause of fires in
blazes that completely destroy the
structure, Wallis said. Narrowing
down a cause could take months,
he said.
Fitzwater said his reasons for
suspicion are based on several
(Continuer) on Page A -2)
Photo by Randall Brooks
Blaze levels ol
By Mike Stewart
The Star -News
McCall's most recognizable
landmark, the red sawmill along
Payette Lake, was destroyed in a
spectacular blaze Monday even-
ing. The blaze was of
"suspicious origin," McCall Fire
Chief Don Fitzwater said Tues-
day.
No one was killed or injured as
the blaze completely engulfed
the 43 -year old mill building
within 10 minutes of its
discovery, according to
eyewitness accounts.
An investigator from the Idaho
Department of Law Enforcement
has been called in by Fitzwater
through the State Fire Marshal's
office.
Fitzwater said Tuesday after-
noon that the cause of the fire is
under investigation, and that
nothing has been ruled out, in-
cluding arson.
He said it was difficult to put a
dollar value on the loss of the
structure, which was operated by
Boise Cascade Corp at the time
of its closure in 1977.
Browns remember `other fire'
By Tom Grote
The Star -News
Jayne Brown poured two
glasses of scotch and water for
herself and her husband, Warren,
and the couple clinked a toast in
the kitchen of their Lake Street
home.
Through the window, in the
distance, a huge billow of smoke
could be seen spewing from the
sawmill that Warren Brown had
built 43 years earlier.
"Here's to the next thing,"
Brown told his wife.
Warren Brown said he felt sad
about the mill fire, even though
RE ,
he sold the mill in 1964 to Boise
Cascade Corp., and even though
the mill had not sawed a log since
1977.
"A lot of sweat has gone into
that thing," said Brown, 71. "I
had hoped they would do
something to it.
Although Monday was a sad
day, the fire rekindled vivid
memories of the day 44 years ago
when a similar fire had much
more devastating results.
It was on July 16, 1940, that
the fully operational Brown's Tie
and Lumber Co. sawmill burned
to the ground.
That mill had been built in
1910 on what is now a vacant lot
along Payette Lake next to the
McCall Hotel. Carl Brown, War-
ren's father, bought into the mill
in 1914 and acquired it outright
in 1929.
"That was it; there was no in-
surance," said Brown, who was
28 at the time of the 1940 fire.
"We were broke, worse than
broke. The only thing that saved
us was good friendly bankers."
Brown remembered that it
took only a matter of days after
the fire that Joe Casper, who was
millwright for Brown, began
(Continued on Page A -2)
Star News April 16, 1992
Browns sign family history Photo by Tom Grote
Warren Brown of McCall signs a mint - condition copy
of the 1%1 book "King's Pines of Idaho, A Story of the
Browns of McCall," at a signing ceremony held at the
1920 House bed - and - breakfast. Looking on are
Brown's wife, Jayne, house owners Bill and Bonni
Shikrallah, and Shawn and Joy Miller. Joy Miller
found and purchased the rare copy of the book,
written by Grace Edgington Jordan, after visiting the
restored home on Lake Street that once served as the
home of the Brown family. Miller then presented it io
the Shikrallahs for display in the historic house. The
book details the history of the Browns and the family.
owned sawmill that was the centerpiece of the town's
economy for decades. The book already contained
the signatures of several members of the Brown
family when Miller found it, as well as the signature
of W.C. Brassey, who apparently was the book's
original owner.
Payette Lakes Star Aug 22 1963
Carl Elliott Brown
Carl E. Brown, 84, prominent McCall lumberman and civic leader
died in the McCall Memorial oHspital Tuesday after an extended
illness. Funeral arrangements will be handled by the Walker
Chapel in McCall. Details of the services were not available Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Carl Elliott Brown was born in to be.
Whitefield, N. H., September 10, This partnership continued un-
1878, the third child of Warren til 1929, .through wars, through !,
Goodhue and Charlotte Elliott prosperity, and through the deve-
Brown. Whitefield lies in timber- lopment of McCall from frontier
ed country, and for two genera- -type town into a thriving little
tions the Browns had engaged in resort city. The railroad had come,
lumbering on a large scale. From Ischools, churches, businesses had
childhood Carl Brown was fam- been founded, and the Payette
ar with the woods, with lumber Lakes Inn had been built.
ing, and with beautiful mountain I The Browns were tireless work.
country that could get very cold ers for anything that was good for
in winter. I the community. They gave not
He was educated in the local just money; they gave themselves.
schools and at New Hampton In- Buying out his partner and go-
stitute. ipg on his own at the time of the
On August 28, 1902, he was mar- stock market crash in 1929 again
ried to Ida Louise Harrington, and required courage and- foresight,
a few months later they made a and again Brown's reputation for
trip West with his parents. His complete honesty and industry
father had put some money into made bankers willing to trust him.
the Independence mine, 75 miles Through the depression the mill
high in the mountains northeast continued to keep running, one of
of McCall, Idaho, a spot he had the few "small" mills in the
never seen, and subsequently Carl Northwest that did; and its pay -
returned to see to these interests. roll stabilized the town. In 1940,
Joined by his wife, he tried a with World War II begun in
business venture in Nampa, but Europe, the mill burned. But
with the financial panic of 1907 again Brown's word was so good
he returned to the mining area. with his bankers that he was able.
in ,1908 he bought the Shieffer to borrow and rebuild immediate -
ranch on the South Fork of the ly. Brown's Tie and Lumber mill
Salmon river, and using this as a and operations emerged bigger
base carried the United States and more complete.
mail under contract from Warren
to Edwardsburg, now Big Creek. To Carl and Ida Brown r
This meant crossing winter sum- born four children, Fli -1--
mits uD to 8000 feet, with snow woofll of "" -
1, IDAHO
Carl E. Brown
Funeral services for Carl Elliott
Brown were conducted Saturday,
August 24th at the Masonic Hall '
in McCall. The Reverend R. N.
' England of the McCall Congrega-
tonal Church officated, and music
was furnished by Mrs. Lois Free.)
man, organist, and Dewey Row-
land, soloist. Acting casket bearers i
were Jack Hayes, E. A. Watkins,
John Takkinen, Harold Rutherford,
pPat Hayes and Les Ulmer, Honor -
ary casket bearers were J. L. Dris-
Coll, Ronald Spratling, Theodore
Hoff, Sr., Windsor Lloyd, Ike West.
Cott, Paul Drew and William Dein-
hard. Interment followed at the
McCall cemetery under the direc-
tion of the 'Walker Chapel. Mr.
Brown, prominent McCall resident
and co- founder of the lumber in-
dustry which hears his name, pass-
; ed away August 20th after an ex-
tended illness. He was 84.
Carl E. Brown, 84, prominent McCall lumberman and civic leader
died in the McCall Memorial oHspital Tuesday after an extended
illness. Funeral arrangements will be handled by the Walker
Chapel in McCall. Details of the services were not available Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Carl Elliott Brown was born in
to be.
Whitefield, N. H., September 10,
This partnership continued un-
1878, the third child of Warren
til 1929, through wars, through
Goodhue and Charlotte Elliott
prosperity, and through the deve-
Brown. Whitefield lies in timber-
lopment of McCall from frontier
ed country, and for two genera-
-type town into a thriving little
tions the Browns had engaged in
resort city. The railroad had come,
lumbering on a large scale. From
.schools, churches, businesses had
childhood Carl Brown was fam-
been founded, and the Payette
iliar with the woods, with lumber-
Lakes Inn had been built.
ing, and with beautiful mountain I
The Browns were tireless work-
country that could get very cold lers
for anything that was good for
in winter.
the community. They gave not
He was educated in the local
just money; they gave themselves.
schools and at New Hampton In-
Buying out his partner and go-
stitute.
mg on his own at the time of the
On August 28, 1902, he was mar-
stock market crash in 1929 again
ried to Ida Louise Harrington, and
required courage and- foresight,
a few months later they made a
and again Brown's reputation for
trip West with his parents. His
complete honesty and industry
father had put some money into
made bankers willing to trust him.
the Independence mine, 75 miles
Through the depression the mill
high in the mountains northeast
continued to keep running, one of
of McCall, Idaho, a spot he had
the few "small" mills in the
never seen, and subsequently Carl
Northwest that did; and its pay -
returned to see to these interests.
roll stabilized the town. In 1940,
Joined by his wife, he tried a
with World War II begun in
business venture in Nampa, but
Europe, the mill burned. But
with the financial panic of 1907
again Brown's word was so good
he returned to the mining area.
with his bankers that he was able.
rranch he bought the Sof
to borrow and rebuild immediate -
the
ranch on the South Fork the
ly, Brown's Tie and Lumber mill
s
Salmon river, and using this as a
and operations emerged bigger
base carried the United States
d more complete.
and
mail under contract from W
to Edwardsburg, now Big Creek.
To Carl and Ida Brown
born four children, Flizabeth (Har-
This meant crossing winter sum-
of McCaii; Warren H., man-
mits uD to 8000 feet, with snow
wood)
-- -- __..__. ,.. ,. Dada•
Carl E. Brown
Funeral services for Carl Elliott
Brown were conducted Saturday,
August 24th at the Masonic Hall
in McCall. The Reverend R. N.
I England of the McCall Congrega- ,
1 tonal Church officated, and music
was furnished by Mrs. Lois Free- I
man, organist, and Dewey Row-
land, soloist. Acting casket bearers i
were Jack Hayes, E. A. Watkins,
John Takkinen, Harold Rutherford,
1 Pat Hayes and Les Ulmer, Honor-
ary casket bearers were J. L. Dris.
coll, Ronald Spratling, Theodore
Hoff, Sr., Windsor Lloyd, Ike West -
j Cott, Paul Drew and William Dein-
hard. Interment followed at the
McCall cemetery under the direc-
tion of the Walker Chapel. Mr.
Brown, prominent McCall resident
and co- founder of the lumber in-
dustry which bears his name, pass-
ed away August 20th after an ex.
tended illness. He was 84.
Community Pauses In
Tribute To Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Ida Brown
McCall paused Friday to pay
tribute to Mrs. Ida Brown, whose
life reflected the growth and deve.
lopment of the village as a lumber
ing town and resort center.
Downtown stores and office,,
closed during funeral services for
Mrs. Brown, held at 11 a.m. ai
years they made their home on the
the Masonic hall. Mrs. Brown,
edge of central Idaho's primitive
widow of Carl Brown who found
area, where Mr. Brown engaged
ed Brown Tie and Lumber Comp-
first in mining, then in carrying
any ,here in the early part of the
mail between one -time mining
century, died at tier home at 3:3C
centers of Warren and Edwards
a.m. Wednesday.
budg, through some of the state':
The Rev. Elmer Jeske of th,
most rugged country.
Community Congregational churcr
In 1910 the Browns established
officiated, with Walker chapel it
a home in McCall, where he trans
charge of arrangements. The Con
ported freight. from McCall tc
gregational choir sang, accompan
Burgdorf and Warren. In partner
ied by Mrs. William Hall. Inter
ship with Theodore Hoff, Browr
ment followed at the McCall ceme
established a lumber mill and
tery.
logging operation here in 1914
Active pallbearers were Pat
which the family has operatec
Hayes, E. A. Watkins, M. E. Hoff,
since that time.
Harold Rutherford, Kenneth John.
Mrs. Brown, noted for her
son and Tom Hastings. Honorary
sparkling humour and spirit, waE
pallbearers were Theodore Hoff,
instrumental in establishing the
Sr., C. J. Westeott, William Dein-
!Congregational church in McCall
hart, Ronald Spratling, Roy Stover,
as well as helping to found the
Paul Drew, J. L. Driscoll, Chester
Payette Lakeg progressive club.
Stephens and L. H. Ulmer.
Always deeply involved in com
Mrs. Brown was born Nov. 24
munity affairs, she worked for any
1880, in Hillsdale, Mich., the
project that would beenfit the
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs
village and its residents.
John Harrington. She traveled
She is survived by one son
with her parents to various parson
Warren Brown, McCall three
ages before moving to Whitefield
daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth ,liar
N. Hamp., where she was mar ;
wood, McCall Mrs. Dorothy Bey
ried to Carl Brown on Aug. 28 j
'erle, Boise and Mrs. Margaret
1902
I
Davis, Seattle 12 grandchildren
The following
b year the couple
and seven great - grandchildren. Mr.
moved to Idaho, living briefly it 1
Brown preceded her in death in
Boise and Nampa. For several
1963.
PACIFIC
PRESS CLIPPING
�q- U
SEATTLE, WASH.
This Clipping from:
Sandpoint cItfal Nortb Ida NPCvs
May 3, 1940
M ALL LUMBERMAN
SEEKS DE1�I0. PQ51'
Carl E. Brown, Valley County Senator.
in Race for National
Committeeman.
,BOISE, Idaho. —Carl E. Brown of
McCall, late last week announced he
would seek election as Idaho's demo-
cratic national committeeman at the
party's delegate convention in Twin
Falls ' May 16.
Senator Brown, who resides in the
1 "irst congressional district of Idaho,
seeks the post now held by Ramsay
Walker of Coeur d'Alene.
CARL E. BROWN.
,Brown operates a lumber mill at Mc-
Call and has served three sessions in
the state legislature as Valley county
senator.
"I am in favor of the present demo -
eratic national administration of Pres.-
dent Roosevelt and would like to sea a.n
uninstructed delegation go to the na-
tional eonvPntinn in chines..., T?.,
_ ��a441U rtutherford, Kenneth Johns Mrs.
son and e
Tom Hastings. Honorary sparklin, Brown ;!
Pallbearers noted for her
were g humour and
Theodore
Sr., C. Hoff, instrumental in d , wa;
J. Westcott, William establishing {
hart, Ronald Spratlin De !Congregational church in g the z
Paul Drew, g, '0Y Stover, as well as helping McCall a '
Stephens and L. Driscoll, over
Payette to found the
I° H. Ulmer. eke` P� Ogressive
Mrs. Brown
Always deeply involved club.N�
in n was born Nov. rrLUmitY affairs she m COm' `
1 Hillsdale, worked for an
daughter o f the Mich., the Protect that would :beenfit b
John Rev. and Mrs villhgge and its residents.
the
Harrington: She traveled is survived
with her parents to various Warren b son
ages before parson Broom Y one
N Ha movin McCall
mP•, where gshe Whitefield wow tern, Mrs. Elizabeth three
McCall Mrs. J
19 02. to Carl Brown on Aug. 28 t erle, Boise and Dorothy Bey
Davis, Seattle Mrs. Margaret
The following year the 12 grandchildrer
moved couple 1 B o seven great - grandchildren. Mr.
to Idaho, living 'briefly
Boise and Nam a. Y it 1963. Preceded her in death in
p For several � CARL E.
gown o BROWN.
-- Operates a lumber mill at Brc-
j �aella s served three sess
state le ions in
senator, g�slature as Valley county
"I am in favor of the present de
,crane national administration of Y
dent mo-
Roosevelt and would like ros`
uninstructed delegation tb se xn
tional convention iu Ch g° to the na_
Port will be for the Chicago My sup -
re- nominated President if ne is
might be or to an yone else who
selected to succeed hi..,
Brown said in making known his
didacy,
can_
"I have yielded to the demands
of
leading democrats in all
who have been Urging i p4'ts of I1aho
position of nationrg ng me to seek the
Simultaneousl mmitteeman. °�
announcement Y with Senator Brown's
vent Bo' ' Ralph J. Davis
'don't Ofithebpsahessy ' . f rmerPpres.
clubs Idaho Young• Democratic
declared he was withdraw,ng
-from the race in favor of the Ville r
county senator.
Eroavn came to Idaho in 1943 ;end
prior to entering the lumber business in
northern Idaho engaged -r business
Idaho county, farming in Can
ty and o gin
Aerated star mail rouesn C., of
Warren and McCall. He is ou'' °f
has four children, married and