Yolo-Nevada-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Charles A. 1852 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

CHARLES A. BROWN, real estate, insurance and collection agent at Woodland, was
born in Lexington, Kentucky, December 29, 1839. His father, H. C. F. Brown, was
born near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and moved when he was a small child to Ohio
before it was a State; and when a young man he went to Lexington, Kentucky,
where he married Hannah Stainton, a native of that State. He was a contractor
and millwright by trade, and died in Kentucky in 18__. His wife is still living
in Bloomington, Illinois, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. In their
family were six sons and four daughters, of whom three sons are the only ones
now living.

  The subject of this sketch, the only member of the family in this State, was
raised in Lexington, and in 1855 he came to California, by way of Atchison and
Salt Lake, packing through the Sierra Nevadas, and arrived in Sacramento August
2. After a residence of six or seven years at Grass Valley he came to this
county. He followed mining there and also in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties.
Most of the time since 1862 his home has been in Woodland. In 1864, in the
spring, he went to St. Helena, Napa County, and remained there about six months;
and was in Nevada during the mining excitement at Washoe, a year, engaged in
mining and other kinds of business. Most of the time in that State he was at
Lake's Bridge, where Reno now stands. For the past twelve or fifteen years he
has been engaged as already noted, being one of the most active citizens of the
place, thorough-going and reliable. Having been thrown upon his own resources
ever since he was sixteen years old, and constantly mingling with strangers, he
has obtained a practical education in the ways of the world.

  Politically, Mr. Brown is a Democrat, and has been influential in the various
campaigns.

  He was married in 1862 to Fannie M. Ingram, a native of Virginia, and by that
marriage there were three children, of whom two daughters are now living. The
parents were separated by a divorce, and Mr. Brown, for his present wife,
married Clara Leman, a native of St. Louis, Missouri; she was born February 12,
1851. They have four children living and two deceased.


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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.

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