Tulare County Biographies

Philip S. Brown

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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The home of Philip S. Brown, on the Exeter road near Visalia. is one of the show 
places of that part of Tulare county. A fine new residence graces the property, 
and its approach is by way of a road�way past a fountain and underneath palms 
and other ornamental trees and bordered on either side with many of the kinds of 
flowers for which California is famous.
In Visalia, June 15, 1867, Philip S. Brown was born, a son of S. C. Brown, who 
came to Tulare county among the pioneers. After he had finished his education he 
engaged in the real estate business in Visalia, as a member of the firm of 
Frasier, Prendergast & Brown, to the interests of which he devoted his energies 
until in 1896, when he began dairying and farming on nine hundred acres of his 
father's land near Visalia. He soon built up a large business which brought him 
good yearly profit and he had at one time one hundred registered Holstein cows, 
four or five hundred hogs, and one hundred acres of prunes and peaches. His 
fruit was killed by a flood a few years ago. At this time his ranch consists of 
three hundred and fifty acres, one hundred and fifty acres of which he has 
planted to alfalfa. As has been seen his career has not been without its 
vicissitudes, but he has overcome all obstacles and achieved success in the 
typical California way, and while he has prospered he has public-spiritedly 
promoted the welfare of the community. In 1896 he married Miss Jenevieve 
Loraine, a native of New York, who has borne him a daughter whom they have named 
Bernice.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 759