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JOHN
QUINCY BROWN A
career of more than ordinary usefulness marked the busy life of John
Quincy Brown, Sr., who served the city of Sacramento as mayor from 1881
to 1887, and had also filled the position of county recorder, public
administrator, levee commissioner and other official positions which
demanded the time and attention of a conscientious, painstaking citizen
such as he. His birth occurred in Breckenridge, Ky., in 1829 and in 1850
he made his way to California, dying in the year 1892, at which time he
was serving as member of the board of trustees of the Napa State
Hospital. His father, William B. C. Brown, grandfather of our subject,
was a large planter in the Blue Grass State, extensively interested in
tobacco growing. When John Quincy Brown, Sr., first came to this state
from Kentucky, crossing the plains, he remained at Placerville for a
time, but seeking a broader field for his activities he found it in
Sacramento. His first employment here was in the wholesale store of
Senator Stanford's brother. Shortly after coming here he married Miss
Anna Mary Williams, the daughter of Joel P. Williams, a prominent mining
man of that period. They had two children, John Quincy and a girl who
died at the age of six years. John
Q. Brown was born in Sacramento. Much of his boyhood was taken up
studying in the city schools, and he also attended the St. Augustine
Episcopal Military Academy at Benicia and the Golden Gate Academy at
Oakland. After graduating from the University of California with the
degree of Ph. B., he joined his father who was then general manager of
the Capital Gas Company, and acted as assistant manager. During the
years he was with the company he served in different positions. From
189:2 to 1897 he was assistant clerk of the Board of Supervisors in San
Francisco. He graduated from the Hastings College of the Law in 1901,
with the LL. B. degree, and went to Kansas City, where he remained five
years. November 28, 1888, he married Miss Jessie Brown, daughter of Dr.
J. T. Brown of that city. Their two children are Harry Edgar, born
December 24, 1889, a graduate of Stanford University, and John Quincy
Brown, Jr., born March 17, 1897, and not attending Hastings College of
the Law. In 1896 Mr. Brown returned with his family to Sacramento. He
joined Eugene Wachhorst, the present district attorney of Sacramento
county, and at this date is deputy district attorney. |
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Source: Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011 |