Merced-Santa Clara-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Magnuson, John 1858 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

JOHN MAGNUSON

   Most of the thirty-eight years which John Magnuson has spent in California he
has been engaged at his trade of carpenter. His birth occurred in Gottenburg,
Sweden, on August 17, 1858, a son of Carl Peter and Anna Magnus, both natives of
the same place. The father, Carl Peter Magnus, was a cooper and woodworker by
trade. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a military man and one of
Sweden's ranking generals; he served with Field Marshal Jean Bernadotte, who
became King Oscar the First of Norway and Sweden. The paternal grandfather
reached the remarkable age of 117 years, six months and three days. Carl Peter
Magnus came to America, bringing his wife and family, in the latter part of his
life and he located at Worcester, Mass., where he spent the remainder of his
life, passing away at the age of ninety-seven years, and his wife reached the
age of ninety-three years. To them were born eleven children of whom our subject
is the ninth in order of birth.

   When John Magnuson was fourteen years old he came to America and joined his
sister, Mrs. Hannah Allen, who was living in Boston, Mass., and there he
attended night school and learned his trade of carpenter and cabinet maker; for
six years he was employed in the Chickering Piano Factory; then he moved to
Moline, Ill., and for seven years worked with a manufacturing company. In 1886
he came to California and settled at San Jose, where for twenty-six years he was
engaged in house building.

   At Worcester, Mass., in 1877, when he was nineteen years old, Mr. Magnuson
was married to Miss Albertina Coolson. They had eight children: Oscar, foreman
of the San Jose Foundry, married Ida Steinnesson; James, deceased; Rocilda,
married Ted Eckhart of Seattle, Wash.; Gladys, a widow living in Portland, Ore.;
Mrs. Ethel Dunn, residing in Richmond, Cal.; Emery is a machinist; Vernon is an
automobile mechanic and lives in Livingston; and Eva lives in Seattle. Mrs.
Magnuson passed away in April, 1906. Mr. Magnuson continued his work as builder
in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other cities and invested his earnings in
property in various places. Becoming dissatisfied after his wife's death, he
traded his property for ten acres near Livingston, where he has since resided,
selling his ranch in 1922. He lives in Livingston and follows his trade.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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