The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 853 

CLINTON P. BROSIOUS.

There is no feature of pioneer life with which Clinton P. Brosious is not
familiar, for from an early day he has resided in this section, the period of
his residence here covering more than a third of a century. He was born on
Blockhouse creek, in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1859, a son of
Abraham and Rebecca (Baryer) Brosious, who were also natives of the Keystone
state. The father was a veteran of the Civil war, and the company and regiment
in which he enlisted were nearly wiped out in one of the hotly contested
engagements. He was afterward transferred to the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry and
was killed just eighteen days before the surrender of General Lee, which
terminated the war. His wife died in May, 1860, and thus Mr. Brosious of this
review was left an orphan when less than six years of age. He went to live with
a relative, with whom he remained until he reached the age of sixteen and then
started out in life independently. He made his way to Minnesota and afterward to
Wisconsin and from the middle west came to Yakima county in May, 1883. Here he
took up a homestead where Jonesville, Washington, now stands.	He was the
discoverer of the Roslyn coal vein, finding the first coal of that vein upon his
oven ranch. He sold the property in 1906 and purchased two hundred acres of land
at Sunnyside. He has since disposed of eighty acres of this tract but still
retains one hundred and twenty-acres, constituting one of the valuable ranch
properties of the district. With many events which have shaped the development
and the history of his section of the state he has been closely associated. He
assisted in making the survey of the townsite of Yakima before the city was
established and he has pioneered over all this part of the state. He traveled
extensively over the region when it was largely a wild and arid tract covered
with sagebrush and gave no indication of what the future held in store for it as
man has reclaimed it for the uses of civilization. In 1908 Mr. Brosious
purchased four hundred acres of land on the Ahtanum and removed to that tract
in 1909. He has a valuable ranch property, well improved, whereon he is engaged
in raising hay, grain and live stock. He annually gathers good crops from his
fields and his live stock interests add materially to his income.

On the 18th of March, 1908, Mr. Brosious was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary A.
(Allen) Clark, who was born in England, a daughter of George and Sarah Ann
Allen. By her former marriage to Joseph Clark, a miner and photographer, who
came to Roslyn in the fall of 1886, and died in 1891, she had a son, G. W.
Clark, a veterinary surgeon, who is a second lieutenant of the Veterinary Corps
of the Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Artillery, now in Germany in the army
of occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Brosious are well known in Yakima county, where
they have a host of warm friends. By reason of his connection with the county
from early pioneer times he has gained a very wide acquaintance in this
district and his worth as a man and citizen has commended him to the confidence,
goodwill and regard of all with whom he has been associated.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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