Sutter County
Biographies
KENNETH R. BROWN
A member of a family who for the lifetime of three generations have made their home in Sacramento, Kenneth R. Brown was born in the capital city on May 9, 1899, the son of Edward S. and Lucy (Purinton) Brown, both natives of Sacramento. Grandfather John Brown was associated with the Southern Pacific Railroad in Sacramento as advance agent on station-building, when that railroad was built in early days, and made his home there. Edward S. Brown is the senior member of the firm of Ennis-Brown Company, the largest produce merchants in Northern California; and he also has other large interests, among them being extensive farming and orcharding interests at Tudor, in Sutter County, carried on under the firm name of Brown & Purinton. Lucy Purinton, the mother of our subject, was born in Sutter County, a daughter of Henry O., and Anna Purinton, pioneers of California. Mr. Purinton was one of the early stockmen of Pleasant Grove, Sutter County. He has passed to the great Beyond; but his widow survives him and resides in Sacramento, where she is the center of a large circle of devoted friends.
Kenneth R. Brown received his education in the Sacramento public schools. After his graduation he became associated with his father and J. P. Purinton, as Brown & Purinton, in developing the rich bottom lands along the Feather River in Sutter County, where they own 1000 acres about thirteen miles south of Yuba City and lease approximately 1000 acres more which they devote to grain and stock-raising. Their own holdings are being rapidly converted into orchards and vineyards. For this purpose they have established a nursery on the ranch, where peach and prune trees are grown for their own planting as well as for commercial purposes.
Mr. Brown’s marriage, which occurred April 28, 1919, at Fairfield, Cal., united him with Miss Marcella Frazee, also a native of Sacramento, and a daughter of J. S. and Nellie (Conn) Frazee, the father a wholesale leather salesman for the Van Voorhies-Phinney Company of that city. Mrs. Brown also obtained her education in Sacramento. One daughter has blessed their union, Yvonne. Mr. Brown is a Republican in political belief. Fraternally he is a member of Sacramento Lodge No. 6, B.P.O.E., and of Union Lodge No. 58, F. & A.M., of Sacramento, while both he and his wife are members of Fidelia Chapter No. 56, O.E.S., at Yuba City.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 624
ISAAC S. LOSEY
A retired merchant of Meridian, of high character and agreeable personality, is Isaac S. Losey, who was born in Sussex County, N.J., January 21, 1849, a son of Jacob and Emaline (Ogden) Losey, natives of New Jersey. His father, who was a farmer, passed away in New Jersey when Isaac S. was a lad of nineteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Losey were the parents of four children: Isaac S. and a twin sister, Mrs. Ursula Patterson; Ella, of Orange County, N.Y.; and Alice, deceased.
Issac S. Losey attended the public school, and when sixteen years of age started to make his way, clerking in a general merchandise store for ten years at Falls, Pa. He went into business for himself in Sussex County, N.J., and conducted his store for fifteen years. In 1889 he came to Meridian; and here he opened a store which he conducted for twenty-seven years. This place of business was burned down about 1917. Since that time, Isaac S. Losey has resided in Meridian in his comfortable home. He was united in marriage on April 6, 1896, at Meridian, to Miss Florence E. Colclasure, a native of Meridian and a daughter of John and Rachael Colclasure. Her parents came to California in the early days, being farmers in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Losey have been blessed with two sons: Oscar I., practicing dentistry in the Forsythe Dental College, at Boston, although he is a graduate of the University of California, where he studied dentistry; and Harry C., at San Francisco. In his political views Mr. Losey is a Democrat.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 627