Biography

Isaac Brayton was a minister who came to California from New York in 1850, and shortly became the second pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of San Jose, a post he held until 1852. In true ecumenical spirit, he served in 1855 as the second minister at San Francisco’s First Congregational Church.

He was a Presbyterian minister who was an early supporter of Rev. Henry Durant’s new Contra Costa Academy (later the College of California, then the University of California).