Plumas County Biographies

J. C. Brown

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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Mr. Brown was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, June 11, 1855. His parents came 
across the plains in 1861, settling at Virginia City, Nevada, where they 
remained a year and a half, when they removed to Sonoma county, California, and 
lived on a farm until 1874. At that time they sold out and came to Sierra 
county, purchasing the Lee ranch of 160 acres, two miles west of Loyalton. Our 
subject’s father, J. B. Brown, died November 17, 1876; his mother now sixty-one 
years old, lives on the farm with her son, J. C. Brown, and her daughters Maud 
and Rosa. Her son Alexander is married and lives in Los Angeles; while Marcus D. 
is a resident of Washington Territory. Her daughter Emily was married to William 
Hand, in 1865, and now lives in Chico. J. C. Brown has managed the farm since 
his father’s death. In politics he is democratic.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 268