Brown, C. A. (Charles A.), 1848-1930.

Dr. Charles A. Brown, graduate of Virginia Medical College, was a physician from Virginia who migrated west in the mid- to late 1800s to seek his fortune in mining. Throughout his time as a frontiersman in both Bonanza, Colorado and Rincon, New Mexico (among other western towns), Brown managed to eke out a living at various professions, including medicine, mining, ranching and livestock raising, working on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as surgeon and clerk, and always looking for a plan to get-rich-quick. Dr. Charles A. Brown is mentioned as one of the few doctors located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico (in Rincon, specifically) in 1884 by Ralph Emerson Twitchell.

Dr. Charles A. Brown, graduate of Virginia Medical College, was a physician from Virginia who migrated west in the mid- to late 1800s to seek his fortune in mining. Throughout his time as a frontiersman in both Bonanza, Colorado and Rinc?n, New Mexico (among other western towns), Brown managed to eke out a living at various professions, including medicine, mining, ranching and livestock raising, working on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as surgeon and clerk, and always looking for a plan to get-rich-quick. The letters to his wife, Martha Magdalene (Maggie) Brown, nee Keller, contained in this collection demonstrate that none of these schemes or professions were all too lucrative. Dr. Charles A. Brown is mentioned as one of the few doctors located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico (in Rinc?n, specifically) in 1884 by Ralph Emerson Twitchell. Otherwise, as Byrd Gibbens notes, the Browns' "presence [in what are now ghost towns in New Mexico and Colorado] was wiped out, as if they had never been there at all."

Dr. Charles A. Brown, graduate of Virginia Medical College, was a physician from Virginia who migrated west in the mid- to late 1800s to seek his fortune in mining. Throughout his time as a frontiersman in both Bonanza, Colorado and Rincón, New Mexico (among other western towns), Brown managed to eke out a living at various professions, including medicine, mining, ranching and livestock raising, working on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as surgeon and clerk, and always looking for a plan to get-rich-quick. Dr. Charles A. Brown is mentioned as one of the few doctors located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico (in Rincón, specifically) in 1884 by Ralph Emerson Twitchell.