Marin-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Nelson, John 1819 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  John Nelson. Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Carlshamm,
Sweden, October 17, 1819. At sixteen years of age he went to sea, and at that
occupation remained until 1850, on the 13th day of June, of which year: he
arrived in San Francisco. In the Fall he proceeded to the mines where he
sojourned for three years, returning to San Francisco in the Fall of 1853. At
this time Mr. Nelson settled on the Laguna ranch in Santa Clara county, and
followed hog-raising until the Spring of 1855, when he left for the mines in
Oregon, being in that State during the Indian excitement of 1856, as one of the
volunteers. In the Fall of that year he proceeded to the Willamette valley, in
company with William Randall, and purchased a band of cattle which he drove to
Olema, Marin county, arriving there in January, 1857, when he bought the farm
now owned by Mrs. Randall, his partner's widow. In 1860 he sold his interest to
Mr. Randall, and after working a dairy for two years, in 1863 he started the
stage line to San Rafael, which he ran for fourteen years. In 1878 he purchased
the Olema Hotel, which he has since conducted. Married, December 25, 1865,
Malicia Shippy, a native of Jefferson county, New York, by whom he has Edgar B.,
Lydia M., Elna, Bertha M., and Walter S.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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