Brown & Root / George R.Brown Executive Files 1937-1978

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Brown & Root / George R.Brown Executive Files 1937-1978

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00054/00054-P.html

The bulk of thismaterial consists of business records of the Brown & Root firm and BrownShipbuilding Co., relating in particular to building projects and jointventures with other companies such as Zapata Offshore, Texas Gulf Sulphur andARMCO Steel, as well as internal operations of the firm. Formats includecorrespondence, internal memos, project site drawings, photographs, reports,notes, and newsclippings.

Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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In 1914, native Texan Herman Brown was given eighteen mules in lieu of back wages for construction work done in his hometown of Belton, which he used to enter the construction business on his own. In 1919 his brother-in-law, Dan Root, advanced him money for working capital, and the company was named Brown and Root, Incorporated. In 1922 Herman's younger brother, George Rufus Brown, joined the firm. Dan Root, a prosperous Central Texas cotton farmer, died in 1929. The paving of dirt ...

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Brown, Herman, 1892-1962

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Brown, George R., 1898-1983

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