Butte County
Biographies
CASE N. BROWN
CASE N. BROWN. --Well and favorably known as a
driller of wells, in which calling Case N. Brown is meeting with deserved
success, it is possible that he is better
known through his long connection of twenty-eight years with the
warehouse of the Farmers’ Union at Biggs. During those years he stored, handled and
shipped vast quantities of grain. He was born in Calaveras County, Cal., February 24, 1858, the son of a worthy pioneer, Anson
Brown. He was a native of Canada, born while his parents were on a visit from their home
in New York, where they lived on the St. Lawrence River. Anson Brown had relatives in the War of
1812. He married Margaret Storm in Ohio, about 1846. He came to California
in 1852 and mined in Eldorado County, and the following year settled in Calaveras County, where he was engaged in mining, farming, and conducting
a trading post at Calaveritas. He was joined by
his wife and two children in 1856. They went to
Murphy and from there down into San Joaquin County where he farmed. In 1872 he located near Biggs, Butte
County, and became owner of some five hundred acres of land
which he farmed to grain for may years and made a success of his
operations. He later settled in Biggs, where he and his good wife lived
until their deaths. He died in 1895, and Mrs. Brown died in
1905. Anson Brown served as one of the county supervisors for one term
during the latter seventies. He set out one of the first mountain orchards
in Calaveras County, which proved a success. He was an Odd Fellow for
many years. There were three daughters and two sons in the parental
family: A. Jasper lived in Biggs and died in 191 6; Amey,
married I. Hurlburt, and died in 1878; Case Newton,
of this review; Ella, unmarried, lives in Biggs and Berkeley; and Lilly M., widow of M. La Point, resides at
Biggs. The two eldest were born in Ohio and
the others in California.
Case N. Brown attended the public schools
in Calaveras, San Joaquin and Butte Counties and worked on farms until 1884, when he was employed by
the Farmers’ Union at Biggs becoming secretary and manager of the
company, and he remained with that concern until 1911. He then turned his
attention to well drilling and in that occupation he has succeeded. He has
operated in Glenn, Sutter, Placer and Butte
Counties, and uses the boring process, although he has drilled
many wells. He has saved his money and wisely invested in Butte
County properties.
Mr. Brown was married to Miss Emma Colvin
of Biggs; she died after four years of happy married life, mourned by all who
knew her.
Transcribed by Louise E. Shoemaker December 04, 2007.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 527-528, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
©
2007 Louise
E. Shoemaker.
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