Oral history interview, 1980.

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Oral history interview, 1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70964286

Interview, with Brown at West Buxton, Me., about river drives on the Saco River and his father, Frank Brown, who was a boss for the Deering Lumber Company.

1 audiotape (1 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8056026

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Brown, Clancy

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Deering Lumber Company

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Lumber company in Biddeford, Me., founded by Joseph G. Deering in 1866; son Frank Cutter Deering joined the business and it become known as J.G. Deering & Son; in 1920 Joseph Godfrey Deering, grandson of the original founder was general manager, becoming president in 1939; Godfrey Company (owned by Joseph G. Deering personally) was formed in 1958 after the sale of J.G. Deering & Son to Thomas Armstrong; at this time J.G. Deering & Son was renamed Deering Lumber Company; Godfrey Compa...

Chaney, Michael P., 1957-

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Deering Lumber Project

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Brown, Frank H., 1950-

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Although his family lived in Alabama, Dr. Frank Brown was born in a little community hospital in Century, Florida. His hometown was right on the Alabama-Florida line, and the closest hospital was in Florida. His father was a railroad clerk. Dr. Brown remembers walking the picket line with his father and his coworkers when the railroad men were out on strike. Dr. Brown earned a college degree in business administration and personnel management. That is the field he intended to follow, but jobs we...