El Dorado County Biographies


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ZAR P. BRANDON
 
            This gentleman was born on the 11th day of March, 1821, in Sarke 
county, Ohio.  He is a son of Joseph and Catherine Brandon.  In 1843 he went to 
Wisconsin, located first in Rock, next in Walworth, and finally in Jefferson 
county, where he resided till the spring of 1850, when he crossed the plains.  
He arrived at Placerville on the 10th of July, and at once went to mining on 
Weber creek.  In 1851 he returned to Wisconsin after his family and brought them 
out in 1852.  On the 3d day of May, 1853, he located on his present home on 
Indian creek, where he has 320 acres of fertile land well watered.  Mr. Brandon 
was married in 1842, to Martha Enyant, who died in 1853, on French creek.  To 
them were born four children, viz.:  Amberson E., Helen, Myron P. and Washington 
P.  Helen is now Mrs. J. G. McClinton, of San Francisco.  His second marriage 
was to Louisa Doan, and to them have been born seven children, viz.:  Mattie, 
now Mrs. Frank T. Fuller, Madison D., Lincoln, Horace, Mabel Frank, Giles and 
Minnie M.  On his farm, on Indian creek, is to be found fine fish ponds well 
stocked with cat, carp and goldfish; all kinds of fruit known to the climate is 
grown, and considerable attention given to good stock and poultry.
 
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo 
Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p - 233
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler