"John King Brown (real name Azevedo) was born January 6, 1840, in Pico. As a youngster he worked on a sailing ship as a cabin boy for a captain named Brown. He became known as "Brown's Boy" and later decided to keep the name since it was the name he was commonly called. As a young man in Boston, around 1683, he married a girl from Faial named Anna F., born September 1842. Son Frank was born there. They then decided to come to the Sacramento area, sailing around the Horn, landing in San Francisco, and then making their way to Clarksburg around 1865 where they settled on a 100-acre ranch between the Freeport bridge and the town of Clarksburg. There were no levees at the time, so the houses and barns were built up on little hills because the land flooded every winter, with the river water surrounding the buildings. Living conditions through the winters were very difficult. Later Chinese laborers were imported to build the first levees, using wheelbarrows. John King Brown farmed the property until his death in 1906 at age 66. Anna had died June 25, 1890, at age 48. Their children: Frank, John, Manuel (drowned at age 11), Joaquim 'King', Mary, Joseph, Anna, Marion, Emanuel, Filamina "Minnie", George, Albert, Rose and Clara."
- Lionel Holmes and Joseph D'Alessandro, Portuguese Pioneers of the Sacramento Area, Second Edition, Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society, 2003
"John King Brown (real name Azevedo) was born January 6, 1840, in Pico. As a youngster he worked on a sailing ship as a cabin boy for a captain named Brown. He became known as "Brown's Boy" and later decided to keep the name since it was the name he was commonly called. As a young man in Boston, around 1683, he married a girl from Faial named Anna F., born September 1842. Son Frank was born there. They then decided to come to the Sacramento area, sailing around the Horn, landing in San Francisco, and then making their way to Clarksburg around 1865 where they settled on a 100-acre ranch between the Freeport bridge and the town of Clarksburg. There were no levees at the time, so the houses and barns were built up on little hills because the land flooded every winter, with the river water surrounding the buildings. Living conditions through the winters were very difficult. Later Chinese laborers were imported to build the first levees, using wheelbarrows. John King Brown farmed the property until his death in 1906 at age 66. Anna had died June 25, 1890, at age 48. Their children: Frank, John, Manuel (drowned at age 11), Joaquim 'King', Mary, Joseph, Anna, Marion, Emanuel, Filamina "Minnie", George, Albert, Rose and Clara."
- Lionel Holmes and Joseph D'Alessandro, Portuguese Pioneers of the Sacramento Area, Second Edition, Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society, 2003
Family Members
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Frank King Brown
1864–1910
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John King Brown
1865–1940
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King L. Brown
1869–1958
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Mary J. Brown Waxon
1873–1924
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Emanuel E. "Manuel" Brown
1877–1949
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Capt. Manuel Enos Brown
1877–1954
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George W. Brown
1879–1943
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Filamena "Minnie" Brown Enos
1879–1964
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Albert Lewis (Leo) Brown
1883–1965
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Rose M Brown
1885–1968
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Clara V. Brown Rose
1887–1960
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