1. Resume ……
( Is an ongoing incomplete work in progression a 30+ yr reconstruction adding website
links and images of people and property as able and located )
Tim Simon
P.O. Box 79
Republic MO 65738
Phone 417-840-0732
Email: spraymastersimon@live.com
Additionally a 50 acre residence at Rose OK , in Cherokee CO.
I have worked as a commercial/industrial paint superintendent and journeymen
tradesmen team member on multimillion dollar projects in the commercial and industrial
fields……
Working from blue print and architectural and engineering specifications manuals and working
directly with estimators, Architects, Engineers, General contractors designers and decorators. As
well as working as a custom home finisher and self- employed finishing and remodeling
contractor…Coordinating equipment material and manpower to facilitate timely and profitable
completion of projects some of which had deadlines and penalties and some which were time and
material projects with unlimited resource allocation financial and petroleum funded projects.
Projects included:
Manufacturing facilities, water treatment plants, government installations at all levels, Universities
and other schools, Corporate structures and offices, banks, shopping malls and retail tenant spaces.
Government prevailing wage projects, municipal bond projects golf courses, country clubs, Zoos,
stadiums , Hospitals and medical facilities, Churches , sports complexes, Walmart’s and other large
chain corporation structures, power and utility companies, petroleum refineries , warehouses, lumber
yard stores, aircraft hangers manufacturing/refurbish/maintenance facilities, historical restorations
custom homes featured in parade of homes events....Chemical plants ETC.
Construction projects for general contractors in OK such as Flintco General contracting.
Oakridge General contracting , Manhattan Construction General Contracting. Including other less
known general contracting firms and Misc. builders in OK, AR, MO
2. Painting and finishing contracting companies employed through such as…..
( from earliest to latest chronologically )
Oklahoma…..
Bob Vale Painting Co. ( Bob Vale ) Tulsa OK 1978-1979,
Heavy commercial/industrial,/mfg./retail/corporate
offices/institutional/government/churches/hospitals
( Bob was a great man that everyone loved , he ran the only union paint shop that was
ever in Tulsa , the IRS shut him down )
Ingersol Rand Corporation Broken Arrow OK
Industrial painter air handler equipment 1980
McGill Fabrication Tulsa OK 1980-1982
Industrial electrician
Thread and Bend metal conduit fasten to skid mounted vapor recovery units for
petroleum refineries per EPA mandate pull wire and connect pumps , motors,
switches and control panels .
Colorado…..
R&M Painting CO Aroura CO
( Ron Watson and Monte Miller )
( Custom Homes ) tract homes light/medium commercial
Ski resort condominiums Lake Dillon Breckenridge etc.
1982-1984………John Denver’s revolving home in the mountains
Oklahoma……
Sooner Painting Co. ( Sam Hawkins ) Tulsa OK 1984-1988
( sold out to Dean Reiss Reiss Pntg. )
Heavy commercial/industrial/mfg./retail/corporate offices
/institutional/government/academic/churches/hospitals
Oklahoma….
3. C. Doss Quality Painting ( Conway Doss ) Broken Arrow Ok
1988-1991 Heavy new construction commercial/industrial/mfg./retail/corporate
offices /institutional/government/academic/churches/hospitals
Conway Doss’s Father F. K. (Kay) Doss
http://shafferpioneer.com/book-of-memories/1500097/DossFK/obituary.php?Printable=true
F. K. (Kay) Doss earned his wings and joined his heavenly Father on Saturday, February 16th
2013 at the age of 73. He was born November 30th 1939, in Keota, Oklahoma to Herman Doss
and Temper Fountain Doss.
Along with his brother, Vernon, started their business, Doss Brothers Painting, in 1964. In
1986, Kay and his son Rick, started F. K. Doss and Son Contractors. Brother Vernon Doss
and wife Frieda of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Son Conway Doss ( C. Doss Painting B.A.
OK ) and wife Sue of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and many others of their family survived him.
Conway let his nephews have his business they changed the name to
Brothers United Painting in 2012
Missouri….
Noranda Aluminum , New Madrid
Temporary Fork lift operator 1991
Oklahoma…..
Reiss Painting Tulsa Ok ( Dean Reiss ) 1991-1993
Heavy commercial/industrial/mfg./retail/corporate offices
/institutional/government/academic/churches/hospitals/schools
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http://reisspainting.com/?page_id=97
4. Sun Dial Painting Corporation Tulsa OK 1993- 1996
( Robert and Jeff Stilwell )
Heavy commercial/industrial/mfg./retail/corporate offices
/institutional/government/academic/churches/hospitals/schools
Self- employment in Oklahoma 1996-2004
DBA Advanced Finishing & Remodeling a sole proprietorship.
Real estate developers and associated real estate agencies interests
Caldwell Banker Group ( Rader group ) Broken Arrow OK ( Art Jiles )
Cedar Ridge Country Club and golf course Broken Arrow OK
Misc. Home Builders and property management
Roger Hardesty Hardesty Homes BizJet International
Case and Associates
Miscellaneous private homeowners remodels and repaints
Miscellaneous retail tenant space and office spaces
All Souls Unitarian Church Pastors home Tulsa
Self Employment in Northwest Arkansas
( Fayetteville, Springdale Bentonville, Bella Vista )
2001-2006
Custom homes various Builders
Developer Property Management.
Light commercial ( Offices , Tennant spaces retail )
Missouri……
Springfield/ Branson Mo various hourly rate projects involved on.
300 million dollar Branson Landing development 2006-2007
Midwest Coatings MO
Paragon Painting Union Mo ( 417 Springfield Union local 2015 )
New Branson Mo High School
New Ozark Elementary school
Northpoint Church Springfield Mo
Springfield Mo Local Painters Union member 2006-2008
Miscellaneous other.....
2001 -2010 additional self ……
Miscellaneous residential property renovations /sell/flips......
Eufaula OK
Broken Arrow Ok
Tahlequah OK
5. Springfield Mo
Springdale AR
2010-2014....Two owned property renovations in preparation to sell
at leisure convenience ....
One near Tahlequah OK , One near Springfield Mo
Have supervised to 20 men at a time on very large projects in OK.
Have worked with all various kinds of materials ...
Epoxies/pit glazes
Urethanes
Alkyds
Enamels
Elastomerics
Carboline
Lacquers
Dry-Falls ( Oil and Latex spraying exposed bar joist metal ceilings in enormous structures like
American Airlines aircraft maintenance hangers from boom lifts to 125 feet )
Metal-Latexes
Zolatone
Multi-speck
Blockfillers
stains
glazes
varnishes and clear urethanes spar conversion etc.
various latexes and waterbornes
many other special coatings for tanks and industrial steel water treatment piping and refineries.
Tenemec ,
Aluminum
Metallics ….Imron automotive
Other Trades and skills possessed…..
Finish/trim Carpenter
Drywall Finishing and texturing patching
Read /interpret/comprehend blueprints and specification manuals
Familiar with ANSI and other specs
Measuring and coating to Millages
Hazmat certification training ( 1990 )
Viscosity calculations
Custom matching and tinting mixing of paints ,stains, putties
Job and material and man hour estimations.
Report documentation of conditions of surfaces and environmental factors.
( surface moisture content, relative humidity , millages of applications )
6. Have worked with almost all brands and types of spraying and texturing pumps and familiar with
eccentricities associated.Conventional Air, Air-driven , Airless, HVLP, LVHP, Electrostatic
Sandblasting to various specifications brush ,commercial etc
Wallcovering experience 52 inch lap seam vinyl and fabrics
Worked with all types of ladders scaffolding swing staging lift and boom equipment scissor lift and
fork lift operation, craneways
Willing to consider travel for more preferable compensation.
Education is High School degree from Tulsa OK plus some college hours
Intelligence quotient testing indicates 130 of the 150 scale.
No present health or disability issues.
Owns common and specialized tools and trades associated equipment.
References
Gregg Sutton Kelly Moore Paints Broken Arrow OK
District Area sales supervisor ……Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, Lawton and Tulsa
Mobile: (918) 625-2538
httGSutton@kellymoore.com
p://kellymoore.com/professional/architects
Chase Magnuson
Owner Painters Equipment Rental and Repair/Perfection Painting
9718 S 232nd East Ave Broken Arrow, OK 74014
918-258-1717 bus. 918 251 9771 personal
Arthur Jiles http://www.jilesteam.com/
Real Estate Agent painted his personal home and flip
properties for him and …...
Caldwell Banker ( Rader Group )
Broken Arrow OK 74012 ( 918-258-2298 )
501 South Aspen Avenue
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012
Mellisa Diggs
State of MO Christian County Family Services Division
Ozark MO 417 844 9045
( Historical Familial descendancy follows work imagery examples )
7. FOR OVER A DECADE I WORKED COMERCIALLY ON OR IN A MAJORITY OF THE MAJOR
BUILDING STRUCTURES OF TULSA OK DOWNTOWN AND OUTLYING OF THE
METROPOLITAN AREA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma
8. West side of pedestrian bridge west bank Arkansas River top photo from Tusa University
Area
9. There is no conceivable way to provide a fully extensive or inclusive photographic portrayal
of every project I was involved on without creating a completely separate online album
cloud file which would be a time consuming commitment in and of itself and would be
more efficiently served through linking to digital photographic online archives already
created by other companies and interests and linked thereto with a library file of links.
A PARTIAL listing ……… Photographic examples of work include…..
Not order specific…….
Holland Hall Catholic School Performing Arts Center South Tulsa, a Flintco construction
Tulsa Museums and Historical Mansions ….Gilcrease , Philbrook, Phillips
Tulsa Northeastern District Federal Courthouse historical restoration project
OneOK Plaza bldg. Tulsa
Bank of Oklahoma Tower Williams petroleum headquarters Tulsa
Sun Oil CO ( SUNOCO ) Petroleum Club bldg. ( fire restoration ) AND REFINERY
Bank of America Bldg. Tulsa ( acquisition of Bank IV Transition ) 5th
Boulder
Amoco North and South Buildings and Research Center
10. ST Johns, Hillcrest, ST Francis Hospitals
Tulsa University Campus Buildings and Student Housing
Oral Roberts University and City of Faith Hospital Buildings
Several Walmart store locations in OK Tulsa , Muskogee , Owasso etc.
Homeland Grocery Stores Tulsa OK
Office Depots
Cedar Ridge Country Club Broken Arrow OK……. ( self contracted )
Branson Landing Condominiums Branson MO……. Midwest Coatings
North Point Church Norton Rd Springfield MO Paragon Painting Union MO
Branson High School Branson MO “ ”
Ozark MO West Elementary School Fremont Hills Hwy CC……. “ ”
List incomplete as of yet……….
11. Did work inside the Philbrook art museum in Tulsa this is the main entrance.
12. I can actually say my painting can be seen or could be seen or was seen for a time in art
museums on their walls, ceilings, columns etc….. literally whatever hasn’t been refinished
since the mid 80’s when I was with Sam Hawkins Sooner Painting who sold out to Dean
Reiss Painting who gave it to his son Anthony. Reiss occupies Sam’s old shop and
office and other locations.
13.
14. The grounds and gardens of the PhilBrook are expansive and magnificent and enjoin
Woodward City Park and remain open to the public. It is Truly Iconic.
I can actually say my painting can be seen in art museums on their walls and ceilings
literally whatever hasn’t been refinished since the mid 80’s when I was with Sam Hawkins
Sooner Painting who sold out to Dean Reiss Painting who gave it to his son Anthony.
17. Wall paint by Tim Simon inside GilCrease Museum Tulsa OK, Gold ,
Green and Burgundy wall paints applied there.
18. 1. I RAN A 20 MAN CREW FOR C. DOSS PAINTING B.A. OK THAT PAINTED THE 8.5
MILLION 1991 NEW FLINTCO Construction with 80 classrooms that surrounded
2. THIS AUDITORIUM IN THE CENTER for HOLLAND HALL CATHOLIC SCHOOL
SOUTH TULSA OK………. WWW.FLINTCO.COM www.hollandhall.org
3. www.flintco.com/projects/v/1696/holland-hall-performing-arts-center
4. www.tulsaworld.com/archives/performing-arts-center-open-at-holland
21. Main entrance above and Holland Hall students performing on auditorium stage below.
22. This is the Federal courthouse interior restoration project 1992/1993 involved restoring
……Ornamental plaster works on the ceilings and gold leafing among other work like wood
refinishing.
23. BOK Building I worked in at times……on various offices on various floors.
Bank of America 5th
and Boulder Tulsa along with its branch locations…..had a lot of time
and material work done on it I supervised a crew of ten for Reiss Painting. I finished walls
and sprayed woodwork , elevator doors etc…..we did the main Lobby and floors 5,7,9 and
eleven . Eleven was a regional corporate boardroom the whole floor built custom with crown
molding etc. The Banks Corporate CEO said my finish work was the best of what was done.
24.
25. Above are the top floors of the Petroleum Club Buildinng across 5th
ST from BOA there was
a fire restoration that we had to be do on the upper terraced floors.
American Airlines Maintenance Hangar ceilings I painted.
26. Oral Roberts City of Faith and University worked in the Hospital building and drywall
finishing and painting on the 78th
and 80th
floors.
27. Ground level photo of petroleum Club building….In 1994, a major fire heavily damaged the top two
stories, forcing the club to close, and causing serious smoke damage throughout the rest of the
building. The club facilities were rebuilt and the facility remained open.
28. Office Depot #359 7286 south Lewis ave Tulsa OK started out being a Sipes grocery store I
was a superintendent For Sun Dial painting when I painted it’s conversion during which
electricians tried to blow themselves up and had a man knocked unconscious, but he was
conscious when they carried him past me . I had five men on my crew when we painted it
for Sun Dial Painting By the time the owners brother showed up with some blue tape at 2:00
p.m. I had free hand drawn the red striping on white paint on slick sheetrock 2/3 the way
around it. I told him save it for the next one I am almost done now and don’t need it my
chalk line was straight.
29. Painted the pool at Southern Hills Country Club Tulsa Tenemec pool expoxy
30. ORIGINAL STANOLIND LABORATORY: The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa campus at 41st
Street and South Yale Avenue was originally the Stanolind Research Laboratory, one of the most
significant additions ever to Tulsa. The laboratory was built in the early 1950s and brought scientists,
mathematicians and other intellectuals to the area and created much quality growth in the city.
Before World War II, Stanolind Oil and Gas, the production subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana,
had its home offices in the Philcade Building in downtown Tulsa. Stanolind later became part of
Amoco, which is now part of British Petroleum. The OU purchase of the research laboratory in 2002
was made possible by the OU Foundation and a $10 million gift from the Schusterman family of
Tulsa.
Painted it with a crew of five the building ran two other directions and sat on 60 acres
31. The lobby on the BOA building had 10 ft walls I had to walk stilts to finish the drywall
For Reiss painting
.
32. Painted the pool at Southern hills country Club Tulsa Tenemec pool expoxy
Office Depot #359 7286 south lewis ave Tulsa OK started out being a Sipes grocery store I
was a superintendent For Sun Dial painting when I painted it’s conversion during which
electricians tried to blow themselves up and had a man knocked unconscious.
34. AMOCO North and South buildings later acquired by Ghetty Oil I believe
painted several floors in each . Moving from on to another floor on a
maintenance contract with C. Doss Painting Myself and one other man
painted new sheetrock on the whole 7th
floor in one day, nobody else had
painted a whole floor until we did.
37. Holy Fanily Catholic church Tulsa on next page , image was so large it didn’t
leave any room for text …Worked on their school room additions and various
other places in the main church offices.
46. Tulsa Zoo Train pulling away from its Crane Depot station at left rough cedar exposed roof
framing and structure all ext solid stain work color green spray and brush. Apparently from
a recent image they never maintained the stainwork and let it weather away, how
disappointing……I guess it never got maintained or refinished since 1990 when constructed
new.
54. I included this specific project as a representation of the broad spectrum of culturally
significant public works I was involved with. As well as another example might be a
restoration to a school in Bixby Ok built by “ The Depression Workers “ a Federal project of
the Great Depression…….The Black Wall Street incident has a lot of imagery and film
documentary and book works background , some of which are very graphic portrayals.
55. An ingenious architect decided that the brick mortar joints on this building that were
excessively white should be painted architectural bronze color so we painted all the mortar
joints around 1991…..it made the brick look like new changed the whole appearance. A
plaque in the front of the school said it was built by the federal depression workers project.
56. Cedar Ridge Country Club Southern exposure ext. paint Kelly Moore paints
my contract work 1999
58. Main entrance southeast view CRCC
Cedar Ridge Country Club Pool Structures total labor only bid combined with main club building
new construction rough cedar exposed framed security entrance structure and old schoolhouse inn
middle of PGA golf course 11K…..time to complete all with no assistance 3 weeks spraying.
59. 3 BR Branson Landing Condominiums North Bldg., artwork unhung sitting
on my enamel brushwork….lol
60.
61. Preferable north bldg.. NE corner units top floor had extended roof
balcony/patio additional patio doors , the lake/river can be seen through the
one on the right.
62. A one bedroom unit colorfully furnished apparently my enamel work on the
fireplace mantel became a television stand, I guess they don’t have a wall
mount bracket. ………Below image is Ozark Mo West Snyder Elementary School Fremont Hills
Hwy CC Paragon Painting a IUPAT contractor
63. The New Branson MO High School built in 2006/7 painted walls and brushed
enamel on hollow metal jambs etc. Paragon Painting
67. 7 mills Elastomeric on shortest lenth wall of Union Independent School District Tulsa OK
Elementary school split face vertical face CMU red block/brick 625 gallons 5.5 days 110*
heat 1993….one of several schools painted for them. Still seeking more images
4 schools all together for Union School District with more images coming soon
69. Personal/familial background………
Faith, Christian
Historical Patriot Familial descent……
Library of Congress documented ( 1896 resolution )
http://lccn.loc.gov/09007308
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7058348M/A_genealogical_record_of_the_Brown_famil
y
https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00penr
The Brown Family…….( George Brown 8th
GGF )
Born 1643 Leicestershire England
First Justice of Bucks County PA
( Homestead immediately north of William Penn Manor http://www.pennsburymanor.org/
on the west bank of the Delaware River where G. Washington crossed )
PA Quaker Friends Archived documented family arrived 1679
http://www.historicfallsington.org/html/about_us/founding.htm
http://www.pagenweb.org/~bucks/Military/1812jacobbrown.html
http://pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/robertbrown.html
SGT. Major and Bucks Co. Justice John Brown Revolution commander
and Nation founding member of the PA Assembly
“John The Fox Hunter” 6th
GGF
Commanding Major General Jacob Jennings Brown 4th
GGU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commanding_General_of_the_United_States_Army
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/church/fallsmm01.txt
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4822
http://www.findagrave.com/cgibin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=4822&PIpi=1745203
24th
Congressional Gold Medal of Honor Recipient by resolution
of Congress…….11 03 1814
http://history.house.gov/Institution/Gold-Medal/Gold-Medal-Recipients/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Congressional_Gold_Medal_recipients
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Gold_Medal
Only person to hold both titles of……
Senior Commanding Officer of The United States Army 1815- 1821
Commander in Chief of The United States Army 1821- 1828
70. Deceased in Office 2 27 1828
Funeral procession published 02 25-02 27 in The National Intelligencer DC …….Entire US
Government shutdown to assemble procession down Penn Ave to the Congressional
Cemetery.
Epitaph and Eulogy given written and inscribed on monument and entered in diary by
President and close friend John Quincy Adams.
" Sacred to the memory of General Jacob Brown, who was born in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of May, 1775, and died at the City of Washington, Commander-
in-Chief of the Army, on the 27th day of February, 1828.”
" Let him who in after years
Shall view this monument of praise,
For honor heave the patriot sigh
And for his country learn to die”
President Adams Diary entry…….
" The immediate cause of his death was lung fever, taken this day week, and its primary
cause was the severe wounds he had received during the war with Great Britain, and the
paralytic shock which he received some years afterwards, disclosed the malignancy of it.
His health had been declining for several years and though long sustained by a firm and
buoyant spirit, has been sinking irredeemably for the last three months. On the 14th of last
month he came and disclosed, in a manner that deeply affected me, his own state of mind
and body, of which he was fully conscious.
Lieutenant Vinton ( CMGJJB son in law ) said that his last
71. thoughts were of the public, recollections of his sufferings and services, and anticipations of
the greatness and glory of his country. ”
" General Brown was one of the eminent men of the day, and though bred a Quaker was a
man of lofty and martial spirit, and in the last war contributed perhaps more than any other
man to redeem and establish the military character of his country."
Pres. JQA
Founder of Brownville NY, Pamelia NY, Watertown NY
http://www.villageofbrownvilleny.org/
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/brownville-ny.htm
http://jefferson.nygenweb.net/pickbeach.htm
4th
Great Grand Uncle Son of Samuel and Abi White Brown ( 5th
GGF & M )
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95245335
sibling of……4th
Great Grand Father……..
Commanding Major General Joseph White Brown……..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Brown
Commissioned by President General Andrew Jackson
Chief authority of The Territory of Michigan
Involved with The Blackhawk Indian Wars
Founder of Tecumseh MI
First Justice of Lenawee County MI
http://www.lenaweehistory.com/lenawee-ch3.html
His first son…..
3rd
Great Grandfather…..
Brigadier General Egbert Benson Brown U.S. Vols. MO 7th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbert_B._Brown#Early_life_and_education
Commander of Rolla District and Springfield MO
Second Battle of Springfield 1863 http://mocivilwar150.com/history/battle/186
( UNSUCCESSFUL Siege made by Confederacy Generals John Marmaduke
and Joseph Shelby the MO raider that ran away again at Marshall MO )
http://mocivilwar150.com/history/battle/171
http://www.civilwarvirtualmuseum.org/1863-1865/marmadukes-raid-shelbys-raid/e-b-
72. brown.php
Pages 27& 28 ………..of The Brown Family Book……..
Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, 7th Missouri Infantry, August
21, 1861; resigned May 1, 1862; Brigadier General State Militia, May 10,1862; Brigadier
General Volunteers, November 29, 1862; resigned November 10, 1865.
Issue :
1. Sarah, born 1847; married Colonel Dodge, 1864, and had issue of :
1.-1 …..Egbert, born 1866.
2. Joseph Tryon, ( 2ND
GGF ) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-
bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=17133436 born 1849; married Matilda Peters, 1877, and
had issue of : 2.-1. ( below ) 2.-2. Egbert, born 1882. 2.-3. William, born 1885.
2.-1. Mabel Harrison Brown Simon, born January 8, 1880…( My First Great Grandmother
wife of Silas Alexander Simon)… Founder of Tulsa OK Carpenters Union Local
http://www.findagrave.com/cgibin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=simon&GSmid=46846767&GRi
d=77661884&
fwd. not in book
2.-1.-1. Ralph Alexander Simon my Grandfather
Employed by Tulsa Rig and Reel/Flint Steel /Flint Corporation General Contractors
……siblings also employed by Tulsa Rig & Reel as oil derek constructors ( Gordon and
Haskell Simon ) and Phillips petroleum. They also had a 4th
son Edward Washington State
OSHA inspector Wenatchee WA WWII veteran.
2.-1.-1.-1. Phillip Vincent Simon my Father
employed by Computek a subsidiary of Flint Corporation.
All deceased…..
MABEL HARRISON BROWN SIMON and others including some I have carried are
found in Rose Hill Cemetery Tulsa OK
SIMON FAMILY PLOT
I know where a majority of my Brown ancestors are through www.FindaGrave.com. I can be
found as contributor SIMON there.
I know where some of my Simon Paternal are back to my 3rd
GGF in sw IL
Names of the family I know are Simon, Brown, Galloway, Murphy, Clark , Jackson, Curtis
Thank you for your serious considerations.
75. Digital Image of pntg of orig. George Brown homestead when owned by GGF5 Samuel and
Abi White Brown still owned before sale and removal to NY wilderness on Black River
Sackets Harbor and founding Brownville NY Bucks Co. PA , Jacob, Joseph Born
there…..Painting survives in possession of distant cousin.
78. Bottom half of CMGJJB monument with inscription by Pres. JQA
Jacob’s son Brig. General Nathan William Brown Paymaster General of the US Army
Arlington National Cemetery
79. Digital image of portrait reproduced in color by artist Jarvis 1837 after CMGJJB’s death in
The National Gallery of Art DC forwarded with rights by curator to me.
Uncle Jacob
82. My great grandmothers family with her seated in left background spouse Silas A. Simon to
her left their eldest son My grandfather Ralph to his left and his spouse my grandmother
Hazel Jean Galloway at his left , Grand uncle Edward Simon lower left and grand uncle
Gordon Simon at Ed’s left ….picture may have been taken by remaining Son Paul Haskell
Simon not shown.
Approx.. yr of 1930-35
83. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF FRIENDS IN BUCKS COUNTY.
PG. 70 ………..
George Brown, and Mercy his wife, were among the earliest settlers at Falls ; they had
emigrated from Leicester, England, in the year 1679, and commenced pioneer life when
what is now the State of Pennsylvania, was almost an unbroken wilderness. It is recorded
of G. B. that he was administering the office of " Justice of the Peace," as early as the year
1680. He possessed a valuable tract of land, bordering on the Delaware River,…….
( grant from Duke of York )…..extending inland to the Penn manor boundary line, and also
bordering upon the possessions of Phineas Pemberton. G. B. was a member of the society of
Friends,
His son Samuel, who came into the fold on the ground of convincement, and afterwards
married Ann Clarke. Samuel became a prominent member of Falls Monthly Meeting, and
likewise a member of the Provincial Assembly ; his sons, George and John, were also
members of the Colonial Government; his daughter, Mercy, married Joshua Baldwin, a
Friend of Chester County ; her descendants are numerous in that section of the country and
elsewhere. In the published biography of one of G. B.'s descendants, who was prominent in
United States history, it is stated that " George Brown was a man of vigorous and cultivated
intellect," that " his children and grandchildren partook of his character," and that " several
of them were for many successive years, prominent members
of the Provincial Government of Pennsylvania." The family encountered a share of the
hardships and privations, such as usually fall to the lot of early settlers ; but it does not
appear that there was any failure of courage, or any serious lack of worldly prosperity. A
portion of their supplies were of course drawn from
the water ; but in their first experience of wilderness life, their dependence was much upon
the wild game of the forest, obtained by
the skillful handling of the one gun in their possession ; but the lock thereof became
disabled, and no means of seasonable repair was
accessible ; their wants were still pressing ; in this emergency, they sought the deer, and the
wild turkeys in company, and while the husband took deliberate aim at a well understood
signal,
the wife applied the torch to the priming. As the family circle widened, the possession of a
cow was thought to be an almost indispensable necessity, but none was to be purchased
short
of New Castle ; the cow was procured from thence, but the undertaking was somewhat
formidable; the way was long, extending
through dense forests, along Indian paths, across treacherous swamps, and over perplexing
water-courses. A dangerous overflow of the Delaware warned them to abandon their then
occupied dwelling at the river bank, and locate upon higher ground ; upon leaving their old
locality and removing to the new, they transplanted their hominy block, which was the
scooped out stump of a tree. The farm,
which embraces the site of the original dwelling, and also the family burial-ground, still
continue in possession of descendants of the family. It does not appear that there was any
annoyance
from Indian hostility, but an irritating question arose respecting the boundary lines between
the adjacent lands of William Penn, and G.B. There is no evidence, and it is not likely that
84. the principals of the parties concerned in the controversy, manifested any pugnacious
disposition, but it is asserted that their servants came to blows, in defense of the supposed
rights of those for whom they were severally interested.
Pg 124
JOHN BROWN although a member of the society of Friends, yet in harmony with a
custom prevailing in England in those days, kept his
pack of hounds, and hunting horses, and indulged freely in fox hunting, a practice which he
continued until quite late in life. It is also probable that the destructive propensities of these
cunning animals, stimulated him, as well as others, to energetic efforts for their
extermination, under the plausible pretense of their being a public nuisance ; but fox
hunting which had been tolerated in the earlier existence of the colony, at length became
very annoying to some of the cotemporaries of J. B., and they appealed to the law for an
abatement of the nuisance. In this controversy Nicholas Wain, then a young man, and who
afterwards became a prominent and highly gifted minister of the gospel among Friends, was
employed as counsel by the fox hunters, and by his power of oratory and persuasive
eloquence, gained the cause (of doubtful utility) for them. The other side of the case was
represented by an eminent member
of the legal profession—by the man who had trained and initiated Nicholas into the
knowledge, the mysteries and the responsibilities
of the practice of law, and who upon witnessing the keen sallies of wit, and the irresistible
force of the current of the ingenious
arguments of this youthful aspirant for legal distinction, suddenly exclaimed, " have I raised
up a young eagle to tear my eyes out ; " "no," was the energetic response, " only to open
them."
One night two thieves entered the dwelling of J. B., but being disturbed in their
operations, fled ; the hounds were un-kenneled and started upon their tracks, and the
robbers were overtaken and captured. This night's enterprise proved to be the last
opportunity for the gratification of their thieving propensities, for having robbed a store a
few nights previous, they were for that offence tried, condemned, and executed. This item is
introduced as a specimen of the severity of the laws in those
days.
