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Cleyson Leroy Brown (February 3, 1872 - November 12, 1935) was a telephone company co-founder, financier, innovator, and philanthropist in the United States. He founded Brown Telephone Company, which then became the Sprint Corporation.
Dec 21, 2020 · Home News Blog. C.L. Brown and his Affect on Abilene, Kansas. By Dickinson County Historical Society on December 21, 2020. Someone who deserves more credit for the changes he brought to Abilene, Kansas is Cleyson LeRoy Brown. It seems like many people forget or do not even know about what Brown did for his community.
Dec 21, 2020 · In this post, the Dickinson County Historical Society shares about C.L. Brown and Kansas Independent Telephony, a look at notable Abilene patriarch Cleyson L. Brown and the spirit of giving that he inspired for Kansas independent telecommunications companies that continues today.
Died: November 12, 1935, in Abilene, Kansas. Cleyson Leroy Brown was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1872, to Jacob and Mary Brown, the oldest of five children. His family ran the mill in the Brown community, named for them. In 1880 they moved to Dickinson County, Kansas, and established a grist mill, which Cleyson helped ...
Hundreds of people in Colorado, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey worked as telephone linemen, operators, and managers in companies controlled by Brown. These companies were the base upon which Sprint Corporation was built in later years. Cleyson L. Brown was born February 3, 1872, in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Cleyson L. Brown was born in Brown’s Mill, Pennsylvania, in February 1872. He graduated from Abilene, Kansas, High School and attended Elliott’s Business College in Burlington, Iowa. In 1899, he organized the Brown Telephone Company to serve the Abilene area. Many exchanges were acquired in the following 12 years, and in 1911, a merger of ...
Cleyson Leroy Brown (February 3, 1872 - November 12, 1935) was a telephone company co-founder, financier, innovator, and philanthropist in the United States. He founded Brown Telephone Company, today known as Sprint Corporation. (en) rdfs:label: C. L. Brown (en) owl:sameAs: https://global.dbpedia.org/id/ACEtA; wikidata:C. L. Brown; prov ...
