Sacramento County
Biographies
John B. Brown, vineyardist, was born in Harrisburg, Virginia, March 10, 1844. His father, Fleming T. Brown, also a native of that State, was a millwright. In 1851 he purchased property in Iowa, and lived there six years. Selling out then, he came to California across the plains with ox teams, being five months and four days on the way, and having no considerable difficulties. One night there were four shots fired into their camp, but without damage. The first two years here Mr. Fleming T. Brown spent at a ranch. (His wife, nee Jane Southern, also a native of the Old Dominion, died December 21, 1857.) Next he followed teaming a year, and then in 1859 he located upon a ranch in San Joaquin Township where he resided nine years. This he sold in 1868. In 1870 he went to Oregon and remained two years. Has made one or two other trips to that State. He is still living. He has had one daughter and two sons, as follows: Mary A., born June 5, 1839, and is now the widow of Albert Fraser, of San Francisco; George M., born April 30, 1841, and died February 14,1888; and John B. born March 10 1844. The later was married December 9, 1868, to Miss Catharine Reese, a daughter of John Reese. Their children are Mary F., born September 29, 1869; John F., April 29, 1872, and died June 4, 1874; George D., May 19, 1874; Lloyd E., April 24, 1876; Fred E., September 12, 1880, and Jessie J. December 29, 1883. Two, unnamed, died in infancy. Mr. John B. Brown purchased his present property, forty acres, in January, 1883, ten miles from Sacramento and one a half from Florin; and on this place he devotes his attented to the raising of toble fruits. He has also 210 acres of land in Placer County, excellent for general farming. He is a member of Elk Grove Lodge, No. 274, I. O. O. F., and in his politics is a Republican.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 494-495. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
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