San Francisco-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Miss Helen Elizabeth  
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  118 - 119
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     MISS HELEN ELIZABETH BROWN is another of the native daughters of 
California who have here proved earnest and resourceful in business service 
and gained advancement to positions of marked responsibility. She holds the 
office of treasurer of the W. R. Ames Company, which is one of the important 
concerns in the sheet-metal trade and business in San Francisco, with 
headquarters at 150 Hooper Street.

     Miss Brown was born at Columbia, Tualumne County, California, and is a 
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Gould) Brown, the former of whom was born in 
England and the latter in New York City. James Brown came to California in the 
pioneer days and established residence at Columbia, he having thereafter been 
identified with mining enterprise a number of years and both he and his wife 
having continued to reside in California until their death.

     The early public-school education of Miss Brown was acquired in her 
native city and in San Francisco, she having advanced her education by taking 
extension courses at the University of California and by receiving private 
coaching in English and history. Her initiation into the business world came 
when she assumed the position of bookkeeper in the San Francisco establishment 
of the Dodge Stationery Company, and later she held for several years a 
similar position with the Bertling Optical Company. Her next service, of the 
same functional order, was with the Pacific Blower & Heater Company, and her 
advancement to the position of stenographer and bookkeeper of the W. R. Ames 
Company came in 1916. With this company she has since remained as an efficient 
and valued executive, and in 1925 she was elected treasurer of the company, an 
office she has since held and in which she has shown marked ability and 
circumspection in directing the fiscal affairs of the concern. Miss Brown has 
shown exceptional ability in practical business but has brought to bear in 
this connection, as in all other relations of life, a fine ideality and the 
power of placing true values upon men and affairs. She is an active and 
popular member of the local Business and Professional Women's Clubs.

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