Leonard Leroy Brown, Jr.^[1]

1886 - 1953  (67 years)

• Name	Leonard Leroy Brown  [2]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	1 May 1886  [2]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	BF032EDB11FC43DC86B019F6FA5535DE9E4D
  Death	5 Jun 1953
  Person ID	I7449	Larry and Jane's Family Tree
  Last Modified	24 May 2011

  
  

  Father	Leonard Leroy Brown,   b. 2 May 1845, , , Wisconsin, USA d. 27 Mar 1928 (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Abbott,   b. 28 May 1846   d. 13 Jun 1933 (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	9 Oct 1867  [2]
  Family ID	F1761	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Elizabeth Dye,   b. 14 Aug 1890, Caney, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA d. 27 Feb 1981, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1914	, , Missouri, USA
  Children	1. Warren Abbott Brown,   b. 20 Nov 1921, Drumright, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA d. 25 Apr 2002, Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, USA (Age 80 years)   2. Leigh McNeil Brown,   b. 22 Oct 1923, Drumright, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA d. 29 Mar 2002, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA (Age 78 years)   3. Living   4. Living
  Family ID	F1760	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2019

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: My father (your grandfather Brown) was born on the old (since1836) family truck farm, which for years now has been inside the built-up area of greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has told me about his father's love for the chattering little red squirrels, of the root cellars where they stored apples, onions, potatoes, cider, vinegar, even the four and corn meal they had ground. The house was large - ten bedrooms - but of course had no bathrooms, running water, gas, or electricity. We have a photograph of it, which we can't date. Dad remembers helping to set drainage tiles six or eight feet deep, and also loading wagons of produceto sell in Milwaukee. BIOGRAPHY: When Dad was about eleven, the homestead was sold, and his father bought 360 acres of wheat farming land in southern Kansas, nea rthe small town of Genda Springs. This was because Dad's mother had been told that she must have a drier climate (two sisters had died as young adults from "lung trouble"). The Kansas farm is the one my sisters and brother and I used to visit every summer; this was after Dad's sister Priscilla and her husband Harry Leland had the farm; we also visited three or four miles away with Dad's sister Helen and her husband "Joe"(Arthur Jacob) Miller. There is still a working farm in my family in the area; my first cousin Mildred Leland Woods and her husband farm just outside Oxford, Kansas. Her brother Harold (and his wife Doris) Leland live in nearby Arkansas City, and her sister Marjorie has a daughter, Joyce (a twin, and one of three) who turned up most of the information on page 7, during a trip to England. BIOGRAPHY: My father (your grandfather Brown) apparently met my mother on one of his visits to his sister Alice Jennings in Caney; my mother was teaching school in Caney at that time. When he finished high school (as I have heard the story at various times from him) he spent part of a year in a college in Winfield, Kansas, then rented a farm; he farmed about a year, living alone, and then decided to try his luck on the west coast .He sold chinaware and other household items in the Los Angeles area (apparently not very successfully) and then moved north. The chronologyis sketchy, but he went to work for Western Electric in Washington, and ultimately ran a crew out of Bellingham keeping the telephone lines over the Cascades in service; quite a job in the winter! In 1912 or 1913, somehow, he was running a line crew that brought telephones to the oil boomtown of Drumright, Oklahoma. He had apparently been looking for a chance to settle down in Kansas or Oklahoma (possibly he had already met my mother) and, on finding no electrical shop in this town (population was never more - permanently- than 4000, but the mail address at that time of 50,000, due to the boom) he resigned his job by mail and started one. He has told me that his first contract was to wire a gasoline plant for Harry Sinclair.

  
  

• Sources

  [S617] Cliff Gray, Gedcom - Gray-Brown, (Sent to Larry Wilson via e-mail on 3 June 2004.). [S223] Lucy Reeves, RootsWeb WorldConnect Database 3014165, "Family Tree 11/13/04", (1,170 entries, last updated 11/14/2004).