(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
There were indeed few white men within the state of Idaho when Peter E. Brown arrived at Idaho City and for many years thereafter he was engaged in sheep and cattle raising and through the conduct of his business affairs contributed in no small measure to the development of the section of the state in which he lived. He was born in Michigan, January 20, 1830, and was but a small boy when he went to Canada with his parents. After the death of his father and mother in the early '40s he started for California, making the trip by way of Cape Horn, and in 1844 he came to Idaho with a man, bringing a band of sheep, their destination being Idaho City. They had no trouble with the Indians, who followed them and ate the dead sheep.
Mr. Brown worked for wages at Idaho City for two years and then turned his attention to the dairy business on Morris creek, conducting this enterprise for two years. On the expiration of that period he located in the Boise valley and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and also purchased sixty acres more from the government near Bogart station, along the present line of the Boise Interurban Railroad. Turning his attention to sheep raising, he conducted the business on an extensive scale for a considerable period, or until about 1881, when he sold his sheep and began raising cattle. In this business he continued to the time of his death and his activities in that direction brought to him a substantial measure of success.
On the 18th of June, 1883, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Caroline Saxton, a native of Missouri, who came with her parents across the plains to Idaho in 1882. Four children were born of this marriage. C. O.,now thirty-six years of age, is first mate on a steamer plying between San Francisco and Honolulu. Nora is the wife of Edward Eytchison, a real estate dealer of Boise. Ora is living at
home, and P. O., the youngest of the family, who is thirty years of age, is now conducting the home farm.
The father passed away May 31, 1896, when sixty-six years of age, and fifty-two years of that period had been passed in Idaho. He was familiar with every phase of pioneer life and early development of the state, coming here when the Indians were far more numerous than the white settlers. He lived to witness a remarkable change as development was carried steadily forward and at all times bore his share in the work of progress and improvement.
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There were indeed few white men within the state of Idaho when Peter E. Brown arrived at Idaho City and for many years thereafter he was engaged in sheep and cattle raising and through the conduct of his business affairs contributed in no small measure to the development of the section of the state in which he lived. He was born in Michigan, January 20, 1830, and was but a small boy when he went to Canada with his parents. After the death of his father and mother in the early '40s he started for California, making the trip by way of Cape Horn, and in 1844 he came to Idaho with a man, bringing a band of sheep, their destination being Idaho City. They had no trouble with the Indians, who followed them and ate the dead sheep.
Mr. Brown worked for wages at Idaho City for two years and then turned his attention to the dairy business on Morris creek, conducting this enterprise for two years. On the expiration of that period he located in the Boise valley and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and also purchased sixty acres more from the government near Bogart station, along the present line of the Boise Interurban Railroad. Turning his attention to sheep raising, he conducted the business on an extensive scale for a considerable period, or until about 1881, when he sold his sheep and began raising cattle. In this business he continued to the time of his death and his activities in that direction brought to him a substantial measure of success.
On the 18th of June, 1883, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Caroline Saxton, a native of Missouri, who came with her parents across the plains to Idaho in 1882. Four children were born of this marriage. C. O.,now thirty-six years of age, is first mate on a steamer plying between San Francisco and Honolulu. Nora is the wife of Edward Eytchison, a real estate dealer of Boise. Ora is living at
home, and P. O., the youngest of the family, who is thirty years of age, is now conducting the home farm.
The father passed away May 31, 1896, when sixty-six years of age, and fifty-two years of that period had been passed in Idaho. He was familiar with every phase of pioneer life and early development of the state, coming here when the Indians were far more numerous than the white settlers. He lived to witness a remarkable change as development was carried steadily forward and at all times bore his share in the work of progress and improvement.
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(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
There were indeed few white men within the state of Idaho when Peter E. Brown arrived at Idaho City and for many years thereafter he was engaged in sheep and cattle raising and through the conduct of his business affairs contributed in no small measure to the development of the section of the state in which he lived. He was born in Michigan, January 20, 1830, and was but a small boy when he went to Canada with his parents. After the death of his father and mother in the early '40s he started for California, making the trip by way of Cape Horn, and in 1844 he came to Idaho with a man, bringing a band of sheep, their destination being Idaho City. They had no trouble with the Indians, who followed them and ate the dead sheep.
Mr. Brown worked for wages at Idaho City for two years and then turned his attention to the dairy business on Morris creek, conducting this enterprise for two years. On the expiration of that period he located in the Boise valley and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and also purchased sixty acres more from the government near Bogart station, along the present line of the Boise Interurban Railroad. Turning his attention to sheep raising, he conducted the business on an extensive scale for a considerable period, or until about 1881, when he sold his sheep and began raising cattle. In this business he continued to the time of his death and his activities in that direction brought to him a substantial measure of success.
On the 18th of June, 1883, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Caroline Saxton, a native of Missouri, who came with her parents across the plains to Idaho in 1882. Four children were born of this marriage. C. O.,now thirty-six years of age, is first mate on a steamer plying between San Francisco and Honolulu. Nora is the wife of Edward Eytchison, a real estate dealer of Boise. Ora is living at
home, and P. O., the youngest of the family, who is thirty years of age, is now conducting the home farm.
The father passed away May 31, 1896, when sixty-six years of age, and fifty-two years of that period had been passed in Idaho. He was familiar with every phase of pioneer life and early development of the state, coming here when the Indians were far more numerous than the white settlers. He lived to witness a remarkable change as development was carried steadily forward and at all times bore his share in the work of progress and improvement.
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There were indeed few white men within the state of Idaho when Peter E. Brown arrived at Idaho City and for many years thereafter he was engaged in sheep and cattle raising and through the conduct of his business affairs contributed in no small measure to the development of the section of the state in which he lived. He was born in Michigan, January 20, 1830, and was but a small boy when he went to Canada with his parents. After the death of his father and mother in the early '40s he started for California, making the trip by way of Cape Horn, and in 1844 he came to Idaho with a man, bringing a band of sheep, their destination being Idaho City. They had no trouble with the Indians, who followed them and ate the dead sheep.
Mr. Brown worked for wages at Idaho City for two years and then turned his attention to the dairy business on Morris creek, conducting this enterprise for two years. On the expiration of that period he located in the Boise valley and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and also purchased sixty acres more from the government near Bogart station, along the present line of the Boise Interurban Railroad. Turning his attention to sheep raising, he conducted the business on an extensive scale for a considerable period, or until about 1881, when he sold his sheep and began raising cattle. In this business he continued to the time of his death and his activities in that direction brought to him a substantial measure of success.
On the 18th of June, 1883, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Caroline Saxton, a native of Missouri, who came with her parents across the plains to Idaho in 1882. Four children were born of this marriage. C. O.,now thirty-six years of age, is first mate on a steamer plying between San Francisco and Honolulu. Nora is the wife of Edward Eytchison, a real estate dealer of Boise. Ora is living at
home, and P. O., the youngest of the family, who is thirty years of age, is now conducting the home farm.
The father passed away May 31, 1896, when sixty-six years of age, and fifty-two years of that period had been passed in Idaho. He was familiar with every phase of pioneer life and early development of the state, coming here when the Indians were far more numerous than the white settlers. He lived to witness a remarkable change as development was carried steadily forward and at all times bore his share in the work of progress and improvement.
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