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From: Sharon Jones <>
Subject: [CABUTTE] Enos H Brown
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:51:51 -0700

Posted on: Butte Co., CA Biographies
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Surname: BROWN, BECK, BEARDSLEY, CANTRELL, DARBY
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ENOS H. BROWN, One of the well known and well liked men of Durham, Butte
County, and a partner in the firm of Beck and Brown, blacksmiths, Enos
H. Brown enjoys the confidence and good will of the community where he
and his partner, Mr. G. Beck, have built up a prosperous business, which
is growing to larger proportions as the town and countryside advance with
the times. Besides blacksmithing, they do general repair work on farm machinery,
automobiles, trucks, and wagons, are general agents for the Jeffrey touring
car, and dealers in gas and oil. Both progressive and public spirited men,
they have always been ready to help further all projects tending to the
advancement of Durham, one such being the organization of the Commercial
Bank of Durham, to which they lent their joint efforts toward building
up and in which they are stockholders.
E. H. Brown is a native of Kansas, being born in Phillips County, May 8,
1881. When a lad he moved about with his parents, first to Nebraska, thence
to Missouri, and back again to Nebraska. Deciding to try his fortunes in
the west, he came to California, in January, 1901, empty-handed but with
strength of arm and the determination to succeed. His first employment
was with Mr. Beardsley, a blacksmith at Bangor, Butte County, where he
learned the trade thoroughly. He then became acquainted with Mr. Beck,
his present partner, and soon after Mr. Beck started a blacksmith shop
in Durham, Mr. Brown came to work for him and the second year thereafter
the partnership was formed.
Mr. Brown's marriage, at Marysville, Cal., united him with Mrs. Malissa
May Cantrell, a daughter of Milton and Mary Darby, of Bangor, Butte County.
Her father has passed away but the mother is still living, one of the very
first of the pioneers of Butte County. She spends her winters at the home
of her daughter, in Durham, and her summers at her ranch in Bangor. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown enjoy the comforts of a good home at Durham: and two children
have blessed their fireside, Walter, and Sarah.

Source: "History of Butte County"; Charles C Mansfield, Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA, 1918, pg 1279

Enos H Brown and his wife Melissa are buried in the Upham cemetery.

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