Charles H. Brower
American businessman (1902–1984)
Charles Hendrickson Brower (November 13, 1901 – July 23, 1984) was an American advertising executive, copywriter, and writer.
Biography
Charles H. Brower was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey and came from a long line of Dutch New Jersey farmers. His father, Charles Hendrick Brower, was an insurance agent and owner of two butcher shops. In 1903 his father sold the butcher shops and purchased a ranch near Pasadena, California. After the ranch failed, the family moved to Pasadena and lived there a few years.
In Pasadena, Brower first attended Columbia Grammar School, and then Pasadena High School, specializing in agriculture. He also worked as a paperboy for the Los Angeles Examiner. During his junior year in high school his parents inherited some money from an uncle and moved back to New Jersey, settling in Freehold, New Jersey, where Brower attended Freehold High School, graduating in the class of 1920. Being tall (6'4") and weighing more than 200 pounds he played center on the football team.
He entered Rutgers on a scholarship to study agriculture, he then changed his major to physics, and then once again to English.
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