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Note: !SOURCE: From family records. !PARENTS: His parents are from Louisiana, according to Census records. !MARRIAGE: The 1910 CA Census, states they were married 11 years; Elizabeth is his second wife. Therefore, a first wife has to be found and any children from that first marriage. !CENSUS: 1880 POSSIBLY. California, San Francisco, San Francisco; taken 4 June 1880; ED 210, page 12, line 12, house 1013, dwelling 102, family 113, Henry (sic) Brown, age 31, married, machinist, born Louisiana, as were his parents; with wife Jennie, age 24, born Connecticut, father born Connecticut, mother born New York; with children Nettie, age 1, daughter, born California; Eugene, age 1/12, born May, son, born California. (Thought possibly he was transcribed as Henry instead of Harry; could not find Harry/Harry R., born Louisiana, in any 1880 census--looked through all the states, online, HeritageQuest Online. From his death records, he was in California since about 1872. No other "Henry" in the California census was born in Louisiana.) ! 1900 California, San Francisco, San Francisco, taken 5 June 1900; ED 128, 7 B, 73; 650 Castro St., dwelling 122, family 164, Harry P. Brown, head, born June 1857, age 42, married 1 year, born Louisiana, as were his parents; machinist; with wife Lizzie, born Dec 1973, age 26, married 1 year, no children, born California, father born New York, mother born Wisconsin. ! 1910 California, San Francisco, San Francisco, taken 26 April 1910; ED 103, sheet 6 A, line 30, house 3852 Twenty-first street, dwelling 34, family #116, Harry P. Brown, head, age 57, second marriage, married 11 years, born Louiiana, as were his parents, instrument trader, shop; with wife Elizabeth F., age 36, first marriage, married 11 years, born California, father born Austria, mother born Wisconsin; and children Harriet G., age 8, born California; and Doris D., age 5, born California. ! 1920 CA, San Francisco, San Francisco, taken 5 January 1920; ED 110, sheet 3,B line 82. 3852 Twenty-first St., dwelling 58, family 82, Elizabeth Brown, own free, age 46, widow, born California, father born Austria, mother born Wisconsin; with daughters Harriett Brown, age 18, single, born California, stenographer, bank supply (?) __ (?); and Doris Brown, age 16, single, born California, typist, insurance. (Harry, Elizabeth's husband, died in 1917.) !DEATH: Have Harry's death certificate and obituary. Death certificate only gives Brown as his father's name, born in LA; mother: no record. Said Harry was in California 45 years before his death, making his arrival in California about 1872. !OBITUARY: In S.F. Chronicle, Wednesday, March 7, 1917, p.6, c.7. Dearly beloved husband of Elizabeth Brown and idolized father of Harriet and Doris Brown, a native of New Orleans. !BURIAL: Cypress Lawn, Lot 321, Sec. F; buried 8 Mar 1917, returned to cemetery 5-12-26, as per cemetery records. !OTHER: He was found in the San Francisco City Directories from 1879 through 1894; possibly a little later, but not in the 1895 S.F. directory.
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