Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Charles W. 1872 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

CHARLES W. BROWN.—While not one of the first settlers of Imperial County,
Charles W. Brown of Calipatria has the honor of being appointed the first
postmaster of that place and has held the office continuously since the town was
started, April 1, 1914. Mr. Brown came to the county in 1909, and has witnessed
many striking and phenomenally rapid changes. He is now the owner of a 160-acre
homestead, which has been brought up to a high state of cultivation, and Mr.
Brown is considered one of the reliable ranchers of his community. He was the
first man to plant a vineyard in his locality. Charles W. Brown was born in
Lamar, Missouri, October 22, 1872, a son of Charles H. and Emma (Wills) Brown.
His parents are both deceased and buried in the family plot at Lamar, Missouri.
The family are of old English origin, and the first of the Brown family to come
to America was Brigham Brown, who came in the Mayflower. Mr. Brown's father was
a banker of Lamar, Missouri, and was a pioneer of that locality, but his
grandfather and great-grandfather were prominent Baptist clergymen. The subject
of this sketch acquired his education in the William Jewel College of Liberty,
Missouri, and the New York Military Academy, which he left at the age of twenty
years. Returning to his native town, Charles W. became identified with banking
in his father's bank. He later started the First National Bank at Tulsa,
Oklahoma, which was the second bank started in the Indian Territory, and Mr.
Brown was named by the Indians "Taneha," which means a "good fellow." Remaining
in Tulsa for sixteen years, Mr. Brown came direct to Imperial County and took
the position as assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Imperial. He
also served as police judge for a period of one year. Leaving Imperial, Mr.
Brown was the first man in Calipatria. Fraternally Mr. Brown is a member of the
B. P. O. E. No. 946 of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He married at Rialto, California, August
18, 1914, Babette Gagel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gagel. Mrs. Brown's
mother is deceased and is buried at Rialto, California, and her father is an
orange grower of that place. Mr. Brown's grandfather, Abel Brown, was killed as
the result of a riot when he was preaching the doctrines of abolition. The
subject of this review served as captain of Company C, Second Missouri Regiment,
during the Spanish-American war.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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