San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/15/2009
FRANK G. BROWN
For many years the name of Bramman & Brown has been connected with the building and industrial life of Tracy through extensive handling of plumbing contracts, installation of pumping and irrigation equipment and plants, and doing general repair work in all the lines mentioned. Since the death of Mr. Bramman, Frank G. Brown has assumed the management of the business. He was born at Georgetown, Colo., on January 31, 1877, being a son of Jacob and Minnie (Frotcher) Brown. In 1879 the father met his death by accident in a mine at Georgetown, Colo. In 1884 the widowed mother with her family removed from Colorado to California, settling at first at Lincoln, Placer County, but shortly removed to Hayward, where Mr. Brown's brother-in-law, Benjamin Bramman, who married Miss Maria B. Brown, established a plumbing shop. Benjamin Bramman was a mere child when with his parents he came to America from Germany. He settled with his family at Tracy in 1897, where he established a hardware store and plumbing shop, and was building up a good business when death overtook him. Mrs. Bramman soon after her husband's death took her brother, Frank G. Brown, subject hereof, into the firm. The hardware business was sold to the Tracy Mercantile Company, and the sister and brother, under the firm name of Bramman and Brown, continued to conduct the plumbing, sheet metal, pump and dairy supply business until 1917 when Mr. Brown bought out his sister. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bramman became the parents of one child. Minnie Bramman who resides with her mother at Oakland where Mrs. Jacob Brown also resides.
Frank G. Brown was reared and educated in the school of Hayward. He was twenty-one years of age when he came to Tracy. Under the efficient direction of his brother-in-law, the late Benjamin Bramman, he thoroughly learned the plumbing, tinning, sheet metal, pump and dairy supply trade, and ever since Mr. Bramman's death has been the active head of this large and growing business.
Mr. Brown's marriage united him with Miss Elizabeth A. Ewald, a daughter of the late Theodore Ewald of San Francisco. They are the parents of one daughter, Bertha. Mr. Brown is a member of the local board of trade and politically is a Republican. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge No. 118 of Tracy. He has encouraged civic and municipal improvements, good streets and roads, and was a loyal supporter of the great irrigation project that has resulted in the success of the West Side Irrigation District and the cutting up of large acreages into small home tracts, and which is creating a new era of prosperity for this city of homes and opportunities.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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