Solano County Biographies

C. P. BROWN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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received his early education in Howard county, Missouri, where he was born, June 
11, 1820.  He studied in 1838-40, and practiced it in that State until 1845, 
when he moved to Iowa, and located in Fremont county, where he again prosecuted 
his legal business until 1853, when he emigrated to San Joaquin county, 
California, and made farming his principal occupation.  In 1874 he commenced a 
law practice in Dixon, which he continued for about a year, and in 1875 was 
elected a Justice of the Peace for Silveyville township, an office which he 
still holds.  Mr. Brown married, in 1843, Miss Frances Frigitt, who was born in 
Clay county, Missouri, December 27, 1825, by whom he has Lizzie T., James J., 
(deceased), Hiram P., (deceased), Bennett C., Ann B., Prentiss, and Francis C.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 494