Mendocino County Biographies

Eugene Brown

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Son of Moses and Nancy Nesmith Brown, was born in Oldtown, 
Penobscot county, Maine, May 1, 1835, where he resided till he was sixteen years 
of age, receiving, in the meantime, a common school and academical education. At 
the age of sixteen he went to New York City, and entered the ship commission 
house of Nesmith & Sons, as clerk, collecting and making out bills and taking 
account of cargoes. He remained here two years and three months. He then 
returned home and spent the next two years in studying. He then entered a store 
in Oldtown as clerk, where he remained for four years. December 20, 1859, he 
sailed from New York on board the steamer Atlantic, for Aspinwall, and thence to 
San Francisco, he took the steamer Golden Gate, arriving January 10, 1860. He 
went at once to Port Bodega, and thence to Mendocino City overland, arriving on 
January 29th. In April, he began clerking for Kelley & Rundle, where he remained 
for five years. March 3, 1865, he began business for himself, and has since 
continued with marked success. Since October, 1866, he has been the agent of 
Wells, Fargo & Co. He is unmarried, and his mother resides with him, now at the 
ripe old age of seventy-eight.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 528, 529