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- Son of Benjamin Alfred Brown and Emily Frances Gordon, husband of Edith Livingston Conklin, the daughter of Israel A. Conklin and Mary Emma Bird, whom he married on November 1, 1904 in Patchogue, New York, and father of Samuel A. Brown.
Died at home, 313 SW 10th Street
Obituary - Arthur T. Brown, a pioneer in newspaper production and employee of The Herald for half a century until his last year, is dead at 78. Known a "Pop," Mr. Brown joined The Herald in 1912, when it was a fledgling newspaper of eight pages and a thousand readers. At the time of his retirement, September 1, 1962, Mr. Brown, a stereotype, had worked for The Herald longer than any other person. "I just took the job for a week to help out," he once said. Mr. Brown, of 313 SW 10th Street, died Sunday. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at King Funeral Home. "Pop" was a plasterer when he moved to Miami from Bellport, N.Y. at the age of 27. But he took a $15-a-week job making flat casts for the old press that turned out one edition a day. As The Herald grew bigger, Mr. Brown forgot about plastering. He became foreman of the stereotype shop and watched it grow from a three-man crew to the 39-man operation it is today. Almost as well-known around The Herald building was "Pop's" wife, Edith, who survives him. After the death of their only child, a 29-year-old son, she began accompanying him to work. She would wait in the stereotype department, in any chair that happened to be handy, until his workday was done. Herald staff members became accustomed to seeing the couple enter the old Miami Avenue building at 5:30 p.m. and leave at 2:30 a.m. when the final editions of the paper were on the street. "I wouldn't let her stay home alone," Mr. Brown once explained. Naturally enough, his wife was soon known as "Mom" to other Herald employees. "Pop" never made the move to The Herald's multimillion dollar plant on Biscayne Bay, the structure his 50 years of work had helped to build. Failing health forced his retirement, reluctantly, seven months before The Herald moved. "He was a faithful employee," said Herald Business Manager, Arthur Gucker. "He worked like a trooper until the time he retired." "He was a pioneer in newspaper methods who saw and helped them develop into the modern methods they are today," Gucker added. In addition to his wife, Mr. Brown is survived by two brothers, Everett S. and Winfield B.; and a sister, Mrs. Lottie Tuttle, all of Bellport. He was a member of the Central Baptist Church.
(Arthur T. Brown in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967, Certificate Number: 23199; The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida), 15 May 1935, Wednesday, Page 2; The Long Island advance., August 29, 1963, Page 9; The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida), 27 Aug 1963, Tuesday, Page 48)
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1886 - 1963 (77 years)