Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Nelson, Christian 1825 - 1890
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

CHRISTIAN NELSON, deceased, was a native of Norway, having been born at Drammen,
twenty-eight miles from Christiania, on the 6th day of November, 1825. His
parents were Neils and Kirsti (Sollos) Nelson. He was reared and educated in
Norway, and spent his younger days at his father's home, who was the proprietor
of flouring mills. In 1848, however, he left home and native country to come to
America, first locating in this country at Buffalo, New York. From there he came
to California, via New York and the Isthmus of Panama, in 1852, and went to
Nevada City, where he began mining. He was at Gold Hill during the early days of
the mining excitement at Virginia City, Nevada, and became interested in some of
the most famous mining properties known to the history of the industry. He had
large interests in Crown Point and Yellow Jacket, which he sold in 1861, selling
his interest in Best and Belcher mines in 1864. In the spring of the latter
year, he went to Silver Mountain, in Alpine county, pursuing his favorite
vocation, that of mining, in which he was for a time successful. In the fall of
1867, bidding farewell to the mines with which he had been so long identified,
he bought a settler's claim and took up land in Stanislaus county, where Mrs.
Nelson now resides, amounting in all to 320 acres, in the spring of 1858 Mr.
Nelson went to Norway on a visit to his father, and returned to California in
the fall of the same year, with a younger brother.

   He was married, March 27, 1862, to Miss Caroline Emilie Johannesen, a native
of Christiania, Norway, and daughter of John and Marie (Telle) Johannesen, the
father a merchant baker by vocation. Her parents and their family came to
America in 1852, sailing from Christiania to Quebec on the Argo, thence
proceeding via the St. Lawrence to Buffalo, New York, where the father was most
of the time engaged in the ship yards. From there the parents came to California
in 1868, locating at Stockton, thence removing to Sacramento, where the father
died, August 28, 1891; the mother died February 14, 1885.

   Mr. Nelson went East to be married, and after marriage brought his bride to
California, via New York and Panama, landing at San Francisco from the steamer
Sonora, after a trip of three weeks. The family first resided at Nevada City,
and later at Silver Mountain, while Mr. Nelson pursued his mining work. They had
three children, John Neilphin, who resides at the home ranch with his mother;
Henry Tracey, who died January 17, 1892; and Clara Emilie, who died September 9,
1878. Mr. Nelson died on the 4th of December, 1890. He was known and universally
respected as an upright man. He was a Republican, politically, and as a citizen
took an active interest in public affairs. Mrs. Nelson, who now manages the home
place, is a lady of exceptional intelligence, and enjoys the esteem of the
entire community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

Memorial and Biographical History
Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties California

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 1892


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