Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

DAN F. BROWN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Yuba City has always been foremost, for a town of its size, in its first-class 
industrial establishments, such as the plumbing and sheet-metal works of Dan F. 
Brown, on Plumas Street.  He is a native of the Golden State, and was born at 
Marysville, in Yuba County, on December 5, 1887, the son of J. H. Brown, a 
rancher who came when a boy to California, helping to construct the telephone 
line across the continent., J. H. Brown is now deceased, having rounded out a 
career of real usefulness as a successful agriculturist.  He had married Miss 
Alice Hogan, born in Nevada; she has survived and is still the center of a 
circle of devoted friends.
Dan Brown pursued his studies under the public-school teachers in Yuba City, and 
then took up the plumber�s trade, serving his apprenticeship under George 
Schumacher, and working at his trade as a young man.  In January, 1922, he 
engaged in business for himself.  From the start he carried a full line of 
plumbing supplies, and also a good stock of sheet metal, that he might do any 
work required in that line.  He employs three men, and is kept busy equipping 
houses and flats.  In politics a Democrat, he has never allowed narrow 
partisanship to interfere with his hearty support of whatever seemed best, in 
men or measures, for the community.
When Mr. Brown married, he chose for his life-mate Miss Margaret Clyma, a native 
of Sutter County, a daughter of Frank and Mae (Haddick) Clyma, natives of Sutter 
and Colusa Counties, respectively.  The father is dead, but the mother is still 
living in Yuba City.  Mrs. Brown is a graduate of the business college in 
Marysville.  She assists Mr. Brown in the office, and is his bookkeeper.  Mr. 
Brown is a member of the Builders� Exchange and the Yuba City Merchants� 
Association.  He and his wife have witnessed many changes and improvements in 
Yuba City, and have the satisfaction of knowing that some of the desirable 
things effected there have been due in part to their own efforts.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1012