California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


EDWARD E. BROWN, D. D. S.� The president of the Fort Bragg 
Garage and Machine Company came to California with the intention of 
devoting his energies to the practice of the dental profession, but a later 
development of trouble with his eyes caused him to turn over to an assistant 
the care of his office and since then he has engaged in business pursuits. 
Like many of the men whom the possibilities of California have attracted to 
its commercial and professional circles, he claims Canada as his native land, 
and was born at Picton, Province of Ontario, but passed the years of youth 
mainly in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The completion of common-school studies 
was followed by a decision to take up the study of medicine, to which science 
he devoted two years of conscientious application, only to decide at the 
expiration of the time that the practice of the profession did not appeal to 
him. Thereupon, in 1892, he began to train himself for dentistry, taking up 
the profession as a student in Minneapolis and eventually receiving his 
degree from the dental department of the Central University of Kentucky at 
Louisville. Upon coming to California he entered the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons at San Francisco, from which he received the degree of D. D. S. 
and in 1898 opened an office at Fort Bragg, where from the first he proved 
himself to be conscientious, skillful and thoroughly efficient in all lines of 
dental work. In 1907 he took a post graduate course at Haskell Post- 
graduate School of Dentistry in Chicago. When it became necessary for 
him to relinquish at least temporarily all active association with the office, 
he established an assistant therein and turned his attention to business 
affairs. 

The Fort Bragg Garage and Machine Company was incorporated Feb- 
ruary 14, 1910, and the present officers are: E. E. Brown, president; W. H. 
Dixon, vice-president ; J. E. Weller, secretary ; L. Barnard, treasurer. The 
company maintains a modern garage, equipped with every facility and device 
a:ssociated with the most recent development of the motor business. A gen- 
eral electrical and supply department adds to the importance of the shop and 
every modern electrical appliance is carried in stock, with an expert electrician 
in charge. The garage is the headquarters and agency for ttwo popular cars, 
the Buick and Ford. In addition to maintaining a close supervision of the 
shop and his other interests in Mendocino county, the president of the com- 
pany is serving as Mayor. He had been elected a member of the board of 
trustees in April of 1913. and in 1914 was elected president of the beard. 
With his wife, who was Miss Emma E. Neff, a native of Port Huron, Mich., 
and formerly a teacher in the public schools of Mendocino county, he has a 
high social standing in the community and has a circle of friends as large as 
his list of acquaintances. Prominent in a number of fraternal orders, he is 
acting as keeper of the records and seals of the Knights of Pythias, also is 
past master of Fort Bragg Lodge No. 361, F. & A. M., besides being clerk of 
the local organization of the Woodmen of the World and a member of the 
Order of Eagles. Professionally he is a member of the alumni association 
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the California State Dental 
Association. He is very much interested in good roads and everything 
tending to make automobiling more enjoyable and profitable. He is a mem- 
ber of the California State Automobile Association and the American Auto- 
mobile Association.