J.R. Brought
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 337

Among the well known and popular business men of Phoenix 
is J.R. Brought, the owner of the Coliseum Theater, one 
of the foremost places of entertainment in the city.  
Born in New York in 1866 he was educated in the public 
schools and went west to Nebraska in 1880 when but 
fourteen years of age and subsequently working in 
Wyoming and Montana.  He finally landed in California 
where he owned a stock ranch for some time, thence 
removing to New Mexico where he conducted a similar 
enterprise near Albuquerque.  For several years he 
traveled selling adding machine, typewriters and 
safes.  In 1909 he came to Phoenix and built the Savoy 
Theater, operating it until 1915.  He then took over the 
Coliseum which has a seating capacity of one thousand, 
is well appointed and furnished and Mr. Brought always 
sees to it that the entertainment is of a high class 
and worthy of attendance.



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