Sevier-Carbon County UT Archives Biographies.....Brown, Thomas 1874 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

THOMAS BROWN.

    Richfield owes as much to "Tom" Brown, as he is called, as to any of her
enterprising citizens. He was born in Scotland in 1874, a son of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Robe) Brown, who located in Salt Lake City in 1884, having been
converted to the Mormon faith. The son obtained his education in the common
schools of Utah and made his initial step in the business world as an employe of
the Utah Fuel Company at Scofield, where for nine years he occupied the position
of office clerk and for two years was assistant chief mechanic. In the great
explosion at the mines of the company in 1900 he was the first man to enter the
mines in an endeavor to save the suffocating miners. His next employment was
with the Utah Light & Power Company, but he remained there for only one year,
resigning to become manager of the Idaho Falls Electric Company. After placing
the business of that company on a paying basis he became connected with the
White Knob Copper Company at Mackay, Idaho, erecting its transmission lines,
power plant and eleven miles of railway. After hard work and the expenditure of
a large sum the company decided that they lacked paying ore and closed the
plant. Mr. Brown then went to the Ophir mines of Senator E. W. Clark as
superintendent of electric equipment and later took charge of the concentrator.

    In March, 1904, Mr. Brown came to Richfield and decided to build a plant for
lighting the city of Richfield. In May of the same year he secured the franchise
for lighting the city, built and installed the present lighting system under the
corporate name of The Richfield Light & Power Company and conducted the business
until 1907, when he sold all of his electric interests to the present owners.
Single-handed and alone he built and operated the plant to which Richfield owes
its present well lighted streets and buildings. He has at ail times been
prompted by a most progressive spirit that has sought the public good as well as
individual success.

    In 1893 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Mamie Strang, of Scofield, who passed
away in 1906, leaving five children: Thelma, the wife of Earl Miner; Clarence,
who is the manager of the Main Street Garage, No. 2, of Richfield; Milton;
Mabel; and Edna. In 1911 Mr. Brown wedded Miss Seena Beck, of Richfield, and
they have become parents of four children; Elizabeth, Helen, Dorothy and Thomas R.

    Mr. Brown now conducts two large garages and repair shops in Richfield,
known as Tom Brown No. 1 and Tom Brown No. 2, which are the best equipped
establishments of the kind in the state. No matter what the trouble is with a
car, it can be repaired in his shops. He has fully equipped departments for
welding and vulcanizing and the repair machines are electrically operated. Any
kind of machine work can be done and the results are most satisfactory. He can
rebuild or repair any piece of machinery and the people of Sevier county and
southern Utah bear testimony to his high efficiency in this direction. He has at
all times been prompted by a most progressive spirit in everything that he has
undertaken and has worked his way steadily upward in business, being now
recognized as one of the dynamic forces in the industrial life of southern Utah.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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