One of Pomona's energetic young business men possessed of the qualities that bring success in life when coupled with the ability to rightly apply them, Harry P. Brown is a native of the Middle West, having been born in Sangamon County, Ill., June 21, 1882. While an infant in arms his parents moved to southeastern Kansas and located on a farm near the city of Pittsburg, in Crawford County. Harry was reared on the farm, attended the country schools and completed his education by a course in business college at Pittsburg, Kans. At the age of twenty he became the owner of an eighty-acre farm, upon which he lived for three years. He then disposed of this property, and in 1905 came to California, locating at Pomona. Since then he has devoted his time and attention to the fruit industry. In less than a year after his advent in Pomona Valley he engaged with the Indian Hill Citrus Association, with whom he has been associated ever since, with the exception of nine months—March to December, 1918—when he filled the position of county horticultural inspector for Pomona Valley district by appointment. He first engaged with the association as picking foreman and was placed in charge of the picking crews in the orange groves; following this he was field manager of all the outside work, making estimates of the fruit in the groves, looking after fertilizing, pruning, spraying, etc. In December, 1918, he accepted the position of foreman of the packing house of the Indian Hill Citrus Association. His wide experience, gained in the field, and the knowledge gained as horticultural inspector, make him a competent and valuable man for the position he holds. He is the owner of a five-acre orange grove of fifteen-year-old trees on North San Antonio and Harrison avenues. The high state of cultivation in which he keeps this orchard amply repays him in the abundant crops yielded by the trees. In addition to the orchard he owns real estate in Pomona.
He was united in marriage with Miss Edna Butler of Kansas, and of the three children born of their union, Marjorie and Helen are natives of Kansas, while Ira, the youngest, was born in the Golden State. In his religious associations Mr. Brown is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Pomona.
History of Pomona Valley, California, with Biographical Sketches
of The Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been
Identified With Its Growth and Development from the Early Days
to the Present
Published in Los Angeles, Cal., by the Historic Record Company
1920
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 10/15/08, Pages 559-560
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