Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....Albertson, William A. 1820 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM A. ALBERTSON, the Postmaster of Roberts, Shasta County, California, was
born in Ohio, November 22, 1839. His grandfather, Jacob Albertson, and his
father, Joseph K. Albertson, were both natives of Pennsylvania. The family
originated in Amsterdam, Holland. His father married Amanda Hutchinson, a native
of Ohio, and they had ten children; six of whom are still living. Mr. Albertson,
the second child, and the subject of this sketch, partly learned the blackmith's
[sic] trade in Ohio, and when nineteen years of age, in 1859, came to Millville,
California, and there completed his trade. Since then he has been a farmer,
blacksmith and miner. He took up 320 acres of land on Cow Creek, and added to it
320 acres of railroad land, and included in his farming also stock-raising. Some
years afterward he sold his property and purchased eighty acres where Roberts
now is, on which, in 1882, he built his residence, and later his shop and
postoffice. He is now engaged in blacksmithing and wagon-making. He received the
appointment of Postmaster, under Garfield's administration, and has it now under
the Harrison administration. He has been the fortunate discoverer of some
valuable mines, and has now a fortune in them. He located the Silver Creek Mine
in 1862, and was unfortunate in not having good reduction works. He has
developed the mine some, and is working other ledges in that vicinity. He also
owns the Chick Mine and the Gray Eagle, and exhibits some fine specimens of ore
with gold in them, and the company are now to put in a new process which will,
no doubt, prove a grand success.

  In 1866 Mr. Albertson was married to Miss Elizabeth Chisholm, a native of
Texas, and they had seven children, five of whom are living,— all born in Shasta
County. Amanda died when a year old, and Mary died when nine years old. The
others are Martha, Jane, Catherine, Henry K., William B. and Edgar W. After
twenty-four years of married life Mrs. Albertson sickened and died in 1890, and
was lamented by all who knew her as a faithful, loving wife, kind and
affectionate mother and an excellent neighbor and friend. Mr. Albertson belongs
to the I. O. O. F., and is a stanch Republican. He has been thirty-one years an
industrious and worthy citizen of Shasta County., and it now seems that the rich
treasures hidden in the mountains of California are about to reward him for his
patient waiting.


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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