Yolo County Biographies


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JACKSON BROWN
 
Jackson Brown, a farmer of Yolo County, was born in Otsego County, New York, 
August 8, 1828.   His parents, Amos and Eliza (Tubbs) Brown, were natives of the 
same county.  His father died in New York, after which his mother moved to 
Minnesota, where she died at an advanced age.  Jackson Brown came to California 
in 1854 via the Nicaragua route and landed in San Francisco May 4.  From there 
he came directly to Yolo County, where he engaged in farming; he owns 480 acres 
of land, all under cultivation.  He devotes his attention exclusively to grain 
and stock raising.
 
He was married, April 12, 1852, to Miss Anna Eliza Hubbard, a native of Otsego 
County, New York.  She came to California in 1856, having remained in New York 
the first two years that he husband was in California.  She died in 1858, 
leaving two children, a son and a daughter.  Robert S., the eldest, is married 
and lives on his father�s farm, with whom his father makes his home.  Anna 
Eliza, the daughter, was married to Edward Broad.  They reside in Sacramento.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler