1824 - 1874

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• Birth	26 Jun 1824	Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Nov 1874	Upper Soda Springs, Siskiyou, California
  Person ID	I79422	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2003 00:00:00
  Married	22 May 1870	Blue Grass, Scott, Iowa   [1]
  Notes	There were no children from this marriage.
  Family ID	F34623	Group Sheet

• Notes

  He had been a river boat captain; and later a partner with Ross McCloud in gold mining. He and "Uncle Dick" Mannon bought a 1/2 interest in Upper Soda Springs from Ross. He married Mary two years after Ross died, by following her to Iowa to win her hand there with her family. Four years later he completed a new hotel building at Upper Soda Springs in 1874 and died in November of that same year, followed by Mary's death a month later. (Moral: Don't work yourself to death contstructing buildings.) He built the new hotel after the model of the cabins on the river boats he captained, with the floor of the rooms higher than the deck (veranda) around the cabins. This well built hotel like a river boat without the boat was a favorite summer vacation resort for hundreds of guests and lasted until torn down for lumber when it was scarce in 1945 during WWI. He is buried in the family cemetery in Yreka with Ross, Mary, Lucy McCloud and Elda McCloud Masson, John Masson, and Uncle Dick-Richard Mannon.

• Sources

  [S2099] Blue Grass Cemetery Records, Gravestones & Research, Sandra Tennyson, (Sandra Tennyson's husband is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Blue Grass Cemetery Assn. They have the official records of th). Scott Co. marriage records transcribed by Sandra Tennyson: "Fry, Isaac and McCloud, Mary 20 MAY 1870 at Blue Grass by Cyrus Morey M.G. Witness: J.F. Campbell m. 22 MAY 1870."