Plumas County Biographies

A. M. Brown

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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He was born in Franklin county, Maine, January 28, 1847. His father John Brown, 
was a farmer, and died when our subject was seventeen years of age. When 
twenty-two years old he came by rail to California, arriving in Sierra valley 
September 18, 1869. He was employed the first year in a saw-mill, and since has 
been engaged in farming. In the fall of 1876 he bought from A. M. Haselton a 
farm of forty acres, two miles west of Randolph, on which he has since lived 
with his mother, who made her home with him. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 274