Tuolumne County Biographies

ALBERT N. FRANCISCO

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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The subject of this sketch was a pioneer of �Old Tuol�umne,� having arrived in 
the county in the latter part of �49 or early in �50.  A more genial, pleasant 
and courteous gentleman, in all the relations of life, never came to 
Cali�fornia; and the memory of ��Little Frank,� as he was familiarly called, is 
cherished in grateful remembrance by his friends and acquaintances of other 
days.  Mr. Francisco was born in Ohio, but went to New Orleans when quite a 
young man, where he was for some years foreman of the Picayune newspaper, a 
leading journal of the Crescent City.  On arriving in our State he settled on 
Brown�s Flat, near Sonora, where for several years he followed the avocation of 
a miner.  Oftentimes has the writer heard him speak in glowing terms of the 
beautiful appearance of the Flat, with its groves of towering trees, before it 
was torn lip and washed away by mining operations.  In 1854 Mr. Francisco began 
the publication of the Union Democrat, in Sonora, continuing time same to the 
date of his death, which occurred in 1867.  He was widely known for his noble 
qualities of mind and heart, and will not soon be forgotten.  He left a widow 
and one child, a boy, who bears his father�s name.

�A History of Tuolumne Co, CA� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Appendix pg. 46-47.