Alameda-Tuolumne-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Hadsell, Charles 1832 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CHARLES HADSELL, a prominent and progressive farmer and business man, near
Sunol, was born December 14, 1832, in Massachusetts, of which State his father,
Luther Hadsell, is also a native. His mother, whose name before marriage was
Clarissa Webster, was a native of Connecticut, and of the old Pilgrim stock of
Websters. The senior Hadsell moved to Ulster County, New York, in 1835; in 1836
to Preston, Chenango County, New York; in 1838 to the town of Triangle, Broome
County, New York, where the subject of this sketch was reared and educated, and
brought up to farming pursuits. In 1851 he came to California, by way of the
Isthmus, on the steamer Illinois on the Atlantic side, and on the old steamer
Panama on the Pacific side. From San Francisco he went to Tuolumne County, and
followed mining there one winter. In 1852 he went to San Jose, Santa Clara
County, and continued in agricultural pursuits there until some time in 1853. He
then spent a year in Pajaro Valley; then was in Centerville, farming, until
1856; next in Santa Clara County until 1860, when he visited the Eastern States,
going and returning by water. On arrival here in 1861 he first stopped in Santa
Clara County, then at Gold Hill and Dayton, Nevada, following mining for a year,
and finally, in the fall of 1862, he located upon his present place, of 2,332
acres of land, near Sunol. He rents out all bat 400 acres, which he occupies as
a dairy, and where he raises thoroughbred stock. He also has twelve acres of
good orchard and two acres of vineyard. He manufactures wine for his own use;
milks 150 cows, furnishes the Palace Hotel in San Francisco with butter, and
also sells a large quantity to the local trade.

  Mr. Hadsell has been identified with many public enterprises in this county.
In 1853 he was one of the prime movers in the division of Santa Clara and Contra
Costa counties, creating Alameda County, being one of the delegates to the
convention that changed the county-seat of Alameda County from San Leandro to
Oakland. Politically he is a Republican, and has served his party as a delegate
many times to both county and State conventions.

  He was married at San Jose, April 16, 1868, to Miss Anna M. Klob, a native of
Germany, and they have three children living: Bertha A., Charles F. and Anna M.
Frank W.,the eldest, was born in 1859, and died in 1872.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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