An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 476 FREDERICK A. BROWN, attorney at law of Tacoma, has attained a degree of prominence through his professional success in a comparatively short time, and the result is largely due to his possession in an unusual degree of both business and legal ability. He is a native of Illinois, born at Decatur. His father, Josiah Brown, who was a physician, died at Decatur in 1889, after having practiced his profession in that city for more than thirty years. The mother still survives. Frederick A. Brown, the subject of this sketch, received his preparatory education in the high schools of Decatur. After completing the course there he went to Chicago, where he was employed by a wholesale and retail grocery house, and while thus engaged he began a course of reading in law, which he pursued nights and mornings; later he went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he was employed as at Chicago. After mastering the rudiments of the law he entered the law offices of Crea and Ewing at Decatur, Illinois, and subsequently entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, studying in both departments of Literature and Law. While attending school at Ann Arbor, he appeared before the Supreme Court at Lansing, Michigan, and was by that body admitted to practice and afterward graduated from the law department, receiving the degree of LL. B. He began his practice at Decatur and was at once successful. As the result of his study of selecting a permanent location, his choice fell on Tacoma, Washington, in which city he opened an office in 1890. Mr. Brown's practice has shown such constant increase as would be expected from one whose preparatory career showed both pluck and determination. He has simply filled a field all his own and in his specialty of corporation, commercial and Realty Law, has a clientage that is nothing less than remarkable, and gives him one of the largest incomes from his practice of any lawyer in the State. He represents in Tacoma nearly all the wholesale concerns, besides a portion of the banking interests of the city, as well as many outside parties. Mr. Brown is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and practices in all the State and Federal courts. He is a member of the State Bar Association, is an active Republican in politics, having attended most of the conventions as a delegate and always taking a leading part in organization. Mr. Brown is in the prime of life, being hardly more than thirty years old; is married and has one of the prettiest homes in the city. Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer * * * * Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.