Yolo County Biographies


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WARREN A. BROWN 
 
WARREN A. BROWN, a farmer on Oat Creek in Yolo County, is a son of James and 
Mary (Banister) Brown.  His father, a native of Rhode Island, removed to New 
York State, and in 1837 to Lake County, Ohio, where he died in 1840.  His oldest 
brother then took the family to Illinois.  Their mother was a native of Vermont. 
 Mr. Brown, of this sketch, began to work for a family about forty-five miles 
northwest of Cleveland, where he continued four years; he then went to Illinois 
and remained with his brother one winter and in the spring was employed on the 
farm for Mr. Wattling, and continued with him three years; then worked one 
summer season for a neighbor at $16 a month; next he chopped wood on the 
Mississippi River for the winter, making his home at Galena; in the spring of 
1851 he ran a ferry-boat at Tete Desmore for a man by the name of Greer for one 
season, and in the spring of 1852 came with horses overland to California.  He 
made his home in Pine Grove, Placer County, until 1868, when he went to Yolo 
County and settled in Cache Creek Canyon, where he rented land until 1888; and 
finally he purchased 320 acres in Fairview Township, on Oat Creek, where he is 
now flourishing as a prosperous agriculturist.
            He was married in Placer County, in 1857, to Miss Mary E. Towner, 
who died October 29 of the next year; and for his present wife, Mr. Brown 
married, January 24, 1867, Miss Elizabeth J. Stanton, a native of Missouri, who 
was brought to California when six years of age.  By the last there are the 
following children: Mamie L., born May, 1868; Warren A., September, 1870; 
Caswell C., May 1872; Harry R., May, 1874; and Josie H., August, 1879.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by:  Wendy Sandino