Brown, James W.

James W. [Wilson] Brown (1821-1898) began 1867 in a new general store partnership with S. W. Field, on the ground floor of a new Mission Street building that later became the St. Charles Hotel. The other ground-floor tenant was the Anthony & Heath hardware store (William Anthony and Charles H. Heath).

• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Four, item (10), page 86.

Rowland mentions a James Brown from about the same time period; a different person.