Yolo-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Brown, Warren A. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WARREN A. BROWN, a farmer on Oat Creek in Yolo County, is a son of James and
Mary (Banister) Brown. His father, a native of Rhode Island, removed to New York
State, and in 1837 to Lake County, Ohio, where he died in 1840. His oldest
brother then took the family to Illinois. Their mother was a native of Vermont.
Mr. Brown, of this sketch, began to work for a family about forty-five miles
northwest of Cleveland, where he continued four years; he then went to Illinois
and remained with his brother one winter and in the spring was employed on the
farm for Mr. Wattling, and continued with him three years; then worked one
summer season for a neighbor at $16 a month; next he chopped wood on the
Mississippi River for the winter, making his home at Galena; in the spring of
1851 he ran a ferry-boat at Tete Desmore for a man by the name of Greer for one
season, and in the spring of 1852 came with horses overland to California. He
made his home in Pine Grove, Placer County, until 1868, when he went to Yolo
County and settled in Cache Creek Canon, where he rented land until 1888; and
finally he purchased 320 acres in Fair view Township, on Oat Creek, where he is
now flourishing as a prosperous agriculturist. He was married in Placer County,
in 1857, to Miss Mary E. Towner, who died October 29 of the next year; and for
his present wife, Mr. Brown married, January 24, 1867, Miss Elizabeth J. Staton,
a native of Missouri, who was brought to California when six years of age. By
the last there are the following children: Mamie L, born May, 1868; Warren A.,
September, 1870; Caswell C.; May, 1872; Harry R., May, 1874, and Josie H.,
August, 1879.

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.


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