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Arthur Page Brown was
born in Adams, New York in 1859. He attended Cornell University
and joined the prominent New York architectural firm of McKim,
Mead & White as a draftsman.
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Feature entry
 For
many California pioneer families, the road to respectability
was to make money, do Europe, build European-style estates,
and marry their daughters to European nobility. Agoston
Haraszthy (Ah-gush-tun Harris-tee) was an
anomaly. A Hungarian - which accounts for his name and those
of his family sounding like characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula
- he was aristocratic, born into a noble family of
Pest (now part of Budapest) on August 30, 1812. The family
was not as wealthy as other nobility, and Haraszthy, like
so many other Europeans whose ambition exceeded their opportunities,
emigrated.
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Agoston Haraszthy, 1812-1869
Aristocrat, Entrepreneur, Official, Winemaker..
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