San Luis Obispo County Biographies

Jose Fred Branch

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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Jose Fred Branch, son of the prominent pioneer, F. Z. Branch, a native of New 
York, and Manuela (Corlona) Branch, a native of California, was born March 15, 
1853, on his father’s splendid ranch near Arroyo Grande. During his youth he 
attended the public schools, finishing an excellent course of study in a college 
in San Francisco. Since that time he has devoted all his energies to farming, 
stock raising and the dairy business, his ranch now consisting of 1,300 acres. 
Mr. Branch has erected a fine residence on his place, directly below the 
magnificent old adobe house of his father, not now occupied, but nevertheless in 
an excellent state of preservation. Jose Fred is the youngest of a family of ten 
children, five of whom are now living. He was married March 5, 1861, to Miss 
Herlinda Borilla, a native of California.

A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis 
Obispo and Ventura, California - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1891, page 605