Tuolumne County Biographies

DOCTOR BROWN

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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The above named gentleman, who was once an influential resident of Sonora in 
early times, and who now holds the important position of Resident Physician at 
the State In�sane Asylum at Stockton, came to this country in 1850.  He was born 
in Virginia, in 1818.  The Doctor commenced practicing in Sonora in 1852, in 
partnership with Doctor Thomas Kendall.  Their practice proved extremely 
suc�cessful, and within a year or two they made a contract to care for the 
indigent sick of the county.  At that time the County Hospital stood where Mr. 
J. Hall�s house now stands, says the Doctor, who mentions other gentlemen as 
having been in medical practice in Sonora at about that time: Dr. Cyprian Cross, 
born in North Carolina; Dr. Murphy, now of San Francisco; Dr. J. J. Franklin, 
who died in 1875; Dr. Kendall, who afterwards became Visiting Physician to the 
Insane Asylum; Dr. William H. Bruner, now of San Francisco; and Dr. Marshall, 
who went to Russia and entered the service of that government, and died, after 
participating in the Crimean war.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 407-408.