History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . f1917, and is now a senior in the University of Southern California. She also graduatedfrom the Junior College at Santa Ana in 1919; Virgil enlisted in the Twenty-first Com-pany of the National Guard of the Coast Artillery, July 23, 1917, trained at Fort Mc-Arthur, was transferred to the Fifty-fifth Ammunition Train, Company C, and sailedfrom New York. September 8, 1918. landing at Bre
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . f1917, and is now a senior in the University of Southern California. She also graduatedfrom the Junior College at Santa Ana in 1919; Virgil enlisted in the Twenty-first Com-pany of the National Guard of the Coast Artillery, July 23, 1917, trained at Fort Mc-Arthur, was transferred to the Fifty-fifth Ammunition Train, Company C, and sailedfrom New York. September 8, 1918. landing at Brest, France, September 21 of thatyear. He was at Clufi^es, France, when the armistice was signed, and remained inFrance until February, 1919. being honorably discharged at Camp Kearny, San 17, 1919. Virgil and his father jointly own thirty-four acres adjoining the fortyacres owned by Mr. Brown, which they purchased January. 1920. The father takes tenacres of this property and the son retains the other twenty-four. They leveled theproperty and planted ten acres of it to Valencia oranges in 1920, and expect to plant theremainder of it to Valencias. Mr. Brown grows beans, peppers and sugar HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1351 Although Mr. Brown through unfortunate circumstances was denied the advan-tages of a good education in his boyhood days, he is a stanch champion for goodpublic schools, and is now serving his fourth three-year term as clerk of the GardenGrove grammar school, one of the best schools of its kind in Southern carefully conserving the public funds he is liberal and generous, and the schoolchildren of this favored district reap the advantages thus aflforded. He is an honest,upright, straightforward, common sense man, frank and honorable in every deal, andhis life will ever remain an encouragement to all who are compelled to start life underthe handicap of limited means and lack of opportunity. He has been ably assisted inhis battle thro
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