San Benito-Placer-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Henderson 1830 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

HENDERSON BROWN, well known throughout San Benito county as a pioneer and the
first settler of Brown's valley, is a pioneer of the State, of 1850. He crossed
the plains with an ox team, from St. Joseph, Missouri, and reached Ringgold,
Placer county, August 22, of that same year. He was born in Mercer county,
Kentucky, October 14, 1830. His father, William Brown, was a native of Virginia
and was reared in the hills of the Blue Ridge mountains. He was a farmer and a
pioneer of Mercer county, Kentucky, where he lived many years. His death
occurred, April 25, 1890, when he was eighty-eight years of age, in Monroe
county, Missouri. He had a family of eight children and Henderson was the fourth.

  Our subject was twenty years of age when he came to California. He was a fair
sample of a vigorous young man, both mentally and physically and full of hope
and ambition. He engaged in mining about three years, on the middle fork of the
American river, and then engaged in farming and stock-raising. He bought oxen of
the immigrants as they arrived in California, and after allowing them to have
free range on the open ground near Sacramento city he sold them for beef,
sometimes receiving as much as $154 for them. Mr. Brown continued to reside in
Sacramento county, until 1867, when he removed to Yolo county and continued his
business. In the spring of 1869 he located in Brown's valley and removed his
family there the following fall. This is a pretty, fertile valley, lying in the
mountains, about sixteen miles northeast of Hollister, near Paicines, and
comprises about 2,169 acres. In 1887 our subject purchased 100 acres of land
adjoining the city of Hollister, of which there is no better soil in San Benito
county.

  Our subject was married, in 1853, to Sarah R. Moore, a native of Missouri, who
died, January 18, 1874, leaving four children, namely: Joseph E., Laura E.,
William H. and Lucella E. Mr. Brown married in 1875, in San Joaquin county, Miss
Sarassada, a daughter of Peter Baker, a native of Indiana. She is a lady of
business tact and force of character and she has four children, viz.: Lola,
Clyde, Ethel and Gladys.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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