Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the 
Cascades.  Vol. II.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p. 
592-594.

	CARROLL L. BROWN: Carroll L . Brown is a forceful and 
resourceful business man conducting extensive and important 
interests under the name of the Coal Creek Lumber Company of 
Chehalis.  In fact he ranks as one of the foremost representatives of 
the lumber industry in his section and his well defined plans, 
carefully executed, measure up to the highest commercial standards.
	Mr. Brown was born in Maine in 1867, a son of Benjamin 
F. Brown, who was also a native of Maine, whence he removed 
with his family to Missouri where he engaged in farming.  On 
leaving that state he came to western Washington in 1877 and 
located in Olympia, where he remained for a year and a half, after 
which he took up his abode on a ranch at Tenino, there remaining 
for two years.  Later he secured a homestead in the timber, about 
two miles south of Napavine, where he built a dwelling and then 
cleared and developed some of the land.  He first erected a small 
sawmill in order to cut some of the timber and the business 
developed until it had become an industry of considerable 
importance.  At first the mill had a capacity of but five thousand feet 
and later this was increased to twenty thousand feet.  The sons 
became interested in the enterprise, which constituted the beginning 
of the present activities of Carroll L. Brown in lumber 
manufacturing circles.  Upon that place near Napavine the father 
spent his remaining days.  He was a very active and public-spirited 
man, earnestly endeavoring to promote the interests which he 
believed would prove of greatest benefit to community, state and 
nation.  For years he gave ardent support to the republican party and 
later became a most stalwart advocate of the prohibition party.  At 
the time of the Civil war he enlisted in 1861 as a private in the 
Fifteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry and served for three years and 
tree months, during which period he won promotion until he was 
serving as captain at the time of his discharge.  In days of peace he 
was equally loyal to the best interests of the country and stood as a 
high type of American citizenship.  He married Florilla W. Wyman, 
also a native of Maine, and they became the parents of two sons and 
a daughter: A.H.; Carroll L.; and Ada, the wife of George R. Clark, 
of Sedro Woolley.  The father had reached the age of sixty-four 
years when he passed away in 1903.
	Carroll L. Brown was a little lad of but ten summers when 
brought by his parents to Washington.  The spirit of western 
enterprise and progress which has been the dominant factor in the 
upbuilding of this section of the country has found exemplification 
in his career.  Since starting in business he has been continually 
connected with the lumber trade in its various phases save for a 
period of two years, during which he engaged in the hardware 
business in Chehalis.  He is today the owner of extensive interests 
conducted under the name of the Coal Creek Lumber Company, an 
enterprise which has done much toward the development of 
Chehalis and this section of the state.  His pay roll puts into 
circulation ten thousand dollars a month or about one hundred and 
twenty thousand dollars a year.  The business was organized in 
1905 by C. L. and A. H. Brown and D. A. Clark and they at once 
erected a modern sawmill and shingle mill and built a standard-
gauge railroad from the plant to the logging camps on Coal creek, 
six miles distant, where they owned a fine tract of fir and cedar, 
supplying between fifteen and twenty million feet of lumber and 
shingle material.  The company has operated its own camps and 
crews in the woods and makes daily deliveries of logs to the mill, 
turning out lumber of superior grade.  Because of the excellence of 
the product and the progressive business methods of the company it 
has been possible for the mill to operate at a profit throughout the 
period of depression that has compelled so many mills to close 
down.  The company has secured as patrons the railroads, selling 
bridge timbers and car materials in large quantities.  In 1910 the 
original company was succeeded by the Harm-Brown Lumber 
Company, which owned and conducted the business until the 
summer of 1912, when Carroll L. Brown became sole proprietor.  
He employs one hundred and twenty-five men in the mill and 
camps.  Situated along the lines of the railways, the Coal Creek 
Lumber Company has excellent shipping facilities, which constitutes 
a contributing feature to the success of the business.  Its products 
finds a ready market in Portland, Tacoma, and other coast cities but 
extensive shipments are also made to the east, with large sales to 
railroad companies, as previously indicated.  Because of the 
excellent quality of the timber, the lumber turned out has always 
found a ready sale and commanded the highest market prices.  The 
equipment of the mill is thoroughly modern, including double 
circular saw, and the capacity is seventy-five thousand feet daily.  
The shingle mill has two upright machines and its capacity is 
seventy-five thousand shingles per day.  The company generates its 
own electricity for lighting purposes and has its own water system.  
The business is under the direct management of Mr. Brown, of 
whom a contemporary biographer has said: "His success has been 
built on the sure foundation of merit--meritorious product and 
meritorious business principles.  And while he has been building up 
a substantial success as a lumberman, he has been acquiring, also, 
other material interests.  He is associated with Senator Leonard in 
coal mining, is an owner of both city and county real estate, and has 
other well-considered investments."
	In Napavine, in 1889, Mr. Brown was married to Miss 
Daisy Reynolds, a daughter of J. W. Reynolds, one of the pioneer 
residents of that district, and they have two children, Ida May and 
Hazel Etta.
	Mr. Brown votes with the republican party but has never 
been an office seeker.  Fraternally he is connected with the Masons 
and he also belongs to the Lumberman's Association.  Of him it has 
been said, "Personally, he is popular and justly so, for he possesses 
that rare combination of kindly humor and reserve firmness that 
never fails to make and hold fast friendships.  As an employer, he is 
liked by his men; as a citizen, he is both liked and valued for his 
civic spirit and willing cooperation in all that concerns his city's 
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