James
Montgomery Brown
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One of the retail institutions which has done much to give Fort
Worth standing as one of the best trading centers of Texas is the
Fair Dry Goods Company, located in Fifth Street, with frontage on
both Main and Houston Streets, and one of the largest department dry
goods establishments in the state. The store occupies a ground space
of one hundred by two hundred feet. The Fair store does a general
dry goods business, amounting in the aggregate to more than a
million dollars per annum. There are more than two hundred employes
connected with the establishment iu all departments and capacities,
and the stock of goods and display rooms occupy the entire
three-story and basement building with frontage on three of the
thoroughfares in the business center of the city. The Fair Dry Goods
Company is incorporated under the laws of Texas, its charter dated
in 1910, and has a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars.
The store does a tremendous business. The popularity of the Fair is
very evident if one will go that way they can see the crowds in
their store almost any time of the day. It has a reputation for fair
dealing, good goods, and fair prices, and these principles were the
factors which have been most potent in building up the enormous
trade. Every institution of this kind largely represents the spirit, the
energy and the ideals of its proprietors. Through every department
of the Fair store is felt the influence and commercial ability of
the secretary and manager of the company, James Montgomery Brown.
Mr. Brown is a most popular man in civic and business circles, and
his successful career is the result of the most scrupulous integrity
and a reputation for square dealing in every transaction. James Montgomery Brown was born in Louisburg, Greenbrier county,
Virginia, September 30, 1879, and he is still very young in years,
although with a broad and thorough experience in business. His
parents were Frank O. and Mary (Montgomery) Brown. Mr. Brown is
particularly popular among his employes, and is admired and
respected by the entire staff of clerks and others who work with and
under him in making the Fair store a success. Mr. Brown, outside of
the Fair, to which he devotes nearly all the hours of his working
day and his best energies, is well known in commercial and social
organizations. He is a Mason and member of Cella Temple, Mystic
Shrine, and was founder of the Temple Masonic Club, of which he is
now president. This club has a membership of over three hundred. Mr.
Brown is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is a director and past
president of the Ad Club, and past president and a director in the
Fort Worth Merchants' Credit Association. He has a host of friends
in Fort Worth. Mr.
Brown, on January 14, 1903, married Miss Lulu Woods Taylor, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P Taylor of Forth Worth. -- A History of Texas and
Texans, Volume 3, Francis White Johnson, 1914 |