Yolo-Amador-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Browning, William Y. 1829 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM Y. BROWNING, a farmer near Woodland, was born March 15, 1829, in
Tennessee, a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Crawford) Browning. His father, a
native of South Carolina, was a farmer by occupation and moved to Kentucky in
early day, locating upon land which he purchased in Monroe County. In 1854 he
came overland to California,with ox teams and a small drove of cattle, and
settled in Yolo County, where he remained until his death, which occurred in
1861, when he was sixty-two years of age. His surviving wife died in 1882, aged
seventy-nine years. They brought up a large family of children. William Y., our
subject, left home at the age of twenty years, resided in Missouri a portion of
1849-'50, and in the spring of the latter year came to California, with ox
teams; returning to the East, he came again in 1854 and 1856. On his first
arrival in this State he followed mining on Dry Creek, near Drytown.

In the spring of 1851 he mined at Gibsonville, and ever since 1852 he has been
engaged in farming and stock-raising. He now has 540 acres of choice farming
land, his residence being two and a half miles from Woodland, on a splendid
gravel road. He is a member of Woodland Lodge, No. 156, F. & A. M.

  He was married in 1856 to Miss Rowena Howard, a native of Missouri, whose
mother is now in California, aged ninety years. Mr. and Mrs. Browning have two
sons and four daughters, namely: Zella, wife of Dr. B. F. Clark, of San
Francisco; Tillie, now Mrs. W. A. Hall, of the same city; Charles L., William
H., Mary and Ida.


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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