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Lucius Screven Brown

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| image_caption =Brown c. 1908
| date_of_birth =[[1874]]
| place_of_birth =Louisville, KentuckyGeorgia
| date_of_death =[[1963]]
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==Insurance & real estate career==
A native of KentuckyGeorgia, Brown moved to Pensacola in [[1904]] and joined the [[Southern Insurance Agency]] as a manager. In [[1905]] he left the firm to start his own insurance company, [[Lucius S. Brown & Company]], setting up a small office in the [[Thiesen Building]]. His brother [[Hunter Brown|Hunter]] moved to the city a few years later and began working at the firm.
Brown began talks with the [[Fisher Real Estate Agency]] to merge the two companies. On [[January 2]], [[1909]], the Fisher stockholders held a meeting to decide which assets they would dedicate to the new venture. The [[Fisher-Brown Insurance Agency]] was officially formed on [[December 28]], [[1911]], at which point Lucius retired from insurance to focus on real estate.
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