Tehama-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Ancil L. 1862 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 21, 2007, 9:56 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) ANCIL L. BROWN, Treasurer of Tehama County, is a Native Son of the Golden West. He was born in Newville, Colusa County, California, August 19, 1862, and is the youngest treasurer this county ever had. He is a son of Henry W. Brown, a well known and highly respected resident of the county, whose history will be found on another page of this book. Mr. Brown first attended school in Colusa County, and when he was ten years old, in 1872, the family removed to Tehama County. Here he pursued his studies and graduated at Red Bluff College in 1881. After leaving school he engaged in the sheep business, and in that year went with a band of 6,000 sheep to Colorado, disposed of them there at a handsome profit and returned. The trip required eight months. He then went to San Francisco and accepted a position with a wholesale house as salesman, remaining there until 1885. In that year he engaged in the sheep business, on his own account, buying and driving 6,000 sheep to Wyoming Territory. He reached that place in October, 1885, and remained there until the following August, when he made an advantageous sale and returned to Red Bluff. At that time he engaged with his father and brother in the general merchandise business, which he conducted successfully until August, 1888, when they sold out. During the political campaign of 1888 Mr. Brown was solicited by his friends to permit his name to run for the office of Treasurer of the county. He was nominated without opposition, and made a lively campaign against a very popular gentleman on the opposite ticket, being elected by thirteen majority. Thus far he has filled the office with marked success. In the fall of 1889 he collected the sum of $205,000. He has been appointed by the Board of Supervisors to collect the license tax of the county. Mr. Brown took an active part in the organization of the Parlor of Native Sons of the Golden West at Red Bluff, in 1881, and is one of the charter members. They have a membership of about forty of the best young men in Tehama County. Mr. Brown is treasurer of the organization. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and has held several offices in that order. Politically he is a Democrat. He is a young man of promise and unusual ability. That his integrity and business qualifications are appreciated by his fellow citizens is attested by the fact that he has a second time been unanimously nominated for County Treasurer,-was nominated without opposition by the Democratic party in August, 1890, and indorsed by the Republicans in the following month, and was elected to fill a second term. Mr. Brown was married on the 19th day of September, 1890, to Miss Mary F. Frank, who is a native of California, and is President of, and one of the charter members of Berrendos Parlor, No. 23, Native Daughters of the Golden West. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/brown759gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb