Biography of George W. Brown, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Brown, Harp ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - November 2001 ************************************************************************ An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 365 George W. Brown Born in Jasper county, Iowa, in 1849, Mr. Brown passed there the initial fifteen years of his life, residing at the home of his parents, A. J. and Martha A. (Harp) Brown. In 1869, he went to Nevada, where for more than a decade he followed teaming, but in 1881 he went to Oregon, and spent a year in the vicinity of Powder river, coming then to Pine valley, where he took a homestead northwest of Pine and engaged in farming. He has recently purchased another farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in the west end of the valley and still handles both farms. He busied himself entirely in agricultural pursuits and stockraising until about six years ago, when he bought saw mills, and turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber. He operated his mills in different parts of the section, one being at Sparta, bought in 1896, and one at Carson, bought in 1898. At present he is devoting most of his attention to the lumber industry. The esteem and confidence in which he is held by the people of his county found expression in 1900, when he was elected county commissioner. At that time the territory in which Mr. Brown lives was in Union county, but recently it has been transferred to Baker county, that act taking place while he was an incumbent of that office, and he ceased to act as soon as the real transfer was made. Mr. Brown is highly esteemed in the sections where he is known and deserves great credit for the skill and enterprise manifested in the industrial and business world.