Francis William Howard Aaron (1829-1897) arrived in California from Wales in 1849. Better known as "Frank," he worked as a bookkeeper for Marysville Gas and Electric, bought Marysville Water Company, and served as a trustee for the Marysville Library Association. In 1874, he married Mary Aaron, who was more than 20 years younger than him. Mary soon became pregnant with the couple's only child, Charles Francis Aaron,¹ so the following year, in preparation for the birth, Frank bought the house now known as the Mary Aaron Memorial Museum for the family to live in. The son, Charles, later bequeathed the house to the city to be turned into a museum upon his death in 1953.²

Footnotes

1. Images of America: Marysville by Tammy L. Hopkins and Henry Delamere. San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.
2. Mary Aaron Museum: History of the Property