N.W. Brown is comfortably installed in the Ross building west of the Bazaar and “Brown’s Restaurant” is now open to trade day and night. (Aug 3, 1904)
The Duluth Brewing and Malting company, which has purchased the Kincannon building
on Third street, today began the installation of a new saloon to be operated in the building. The restaurant formerly conducted in the building by N. W. Brown is being removed to the Tremont hotel building on Minnesota Avenue. (May 15, 1905)
N. W. Brown has sold the lease of the Tremont hotel to Albert Hill and will leave in a few days for Redby, the terminus of the M., K. L. & M. railway on the shore of Red lake, where Mr. Brown will conduct a store and hotel. He will also conduct the post office there, when the office is established. Application has been made to the authorities at Washington for the establishment of a post office at Redby, and it is expected that, the application will be granted in the near future. (Nov 30, 1906)
N.W. Brown, who recently sold his lease of the Tremont hotel and decided to go to Redby and start a hotel, has changed his mind and will remain in Bemidji. He has purchased the Olson building, on Minnesota avenue, which has been occupied by a barber shop, and will open a restaurant and lodging house. He will build an addition of twenty-four feet on the rear of the building. (Dec 4, 1906)
Mr. Brown is one of our expert chefs and caterers, operating the hotel and restaurant which has become so widely and popularly known during his management. Mr. Brown has been a professional chef and hotel man all his life. He conducts the hotel and lunch counter. (1909)
1910 Census: Nassau W. Brown, age 48, born about 1862 in Canada. Resident of the 4th Ward. Wife Mary, also born in Canada.
1910 City Directory: N.W. Brown, Restaurant, 207 Minnesota Avenue (1910)
Elected as alderman of the Fourth Ward in 1910.
I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election as alderman of the Fourth Ward at the election to be held February 20, 1912. I refer you to my service as alderman and solicit your votes at the polls election day. N. W. Brown
N.W. Brown was elected treasurer of the Bemidji Band (1915)
Not found on the 1920 Census.
He was a Notary Public in 1922 and was elected an officer of the Royal Arch Chapter of the Masons in 1922.
No longer in the city directory or Bemidji census.