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Note: Came to America with an uncle when he was 19 years old. By the time of the Civil War, he owned and operated business property in New Orleans. During the war, he headed West and arrived in Scott Valley, where he went to work in Heartstrand's brewery, which, at that time, was located just south of Hovenden's Hill on the old P.A. Heartstrand Ranch. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1867. Married in 1872, to Mary Caroline Holzhauser, by District Judge, A.M. Roseborough. Judge Roseborough was a personal friend of Captain Jack, Modoc chief, and he treated the Modocs very fairly. Bought a ranch in February, 1868, from Edmund & Elizabeth Bagby. The ranch became known as the Horn Ranch and is in Scott Valley, eastward across from Etna, Siskiyou Co., California. Between 1880 & 1885, more land was purchased from Charles Baird (property known as the Cooper Ranch), from the Hughes & from E.J. Eller and the last to be added was by Frank, Jr. in 1904in the form of an adjoining homestead. This brought the ranch to the size of 540 acres. The Horn Ranch was bought from one of the Horn women descendants around the year 2000, by Scott & Michele Murphy. Scott's parents own the Etna Pharmacy in Etna. Scott and Michele were gracious enough to give me a tour through the old two-story, Victorian style Horn ranch house that they were beginning to rennovate. It must have been a very beautiful and impressive house in its day. It was built by the first owners of the ranch, who was Erwin & Sarah Elmore, in 1860-1861. The first cow they had on their ranch was an old, bony, milkcow given to them by their neighbor, P.A. Heartstrand. She kept the family well-furnished with milk, though.
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