Solano County Biographies

D. B. BROWN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Exeter, Penobscot county, Maine, April 22, 1848. When six years old 
his parents moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, remaining there till the 
breaking out of the rebellion, when they emigrated to this State, settling at 
Oroville, Butte county, in the winter of 1862, where the subject of this sketch 
attended school.  After clerking in a hotel at Marysville for some time he went 
to the mountains of Yuba county, working in a saw mill, afterwards engaged in 
mining one year or over, after which he went to San Francisco, attending Heald�s 
Business College, graduating in 1867.  He then followed clerking for a period of 
two years, a portion of this time being in the employ of the Merchants� 
Forwarding Line and Meeker, James & Co. of San Francisco.  He then went to 
Benicia in the employ of J. G. Johnson, J. W. Jones and J. Hoyt; from here he 
went to Collinsville in employ of T. P. Hooper, where he remained for two years, 
and then went to Emmaton and stopped two years; thence to Antioch, clerking; 
then to Vallejo, and from there to Isleton, Sacramento county, and built a 
saloon which he conducted about one year and then took up his abode in Amador 
county and clerked in store for some time, and then came back to Isleton, and 
from here to Rio Vista where he rented River View Hotel which he runs at the 
present time. Married September 18, 1878, Miss Sarah A. Pease, who was born 
September 26, 1852, in Columbia county, Wisconsin.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 468-469