Shasta-Trinity County CA Archives Biographies.....Michaelson, Fred 1830 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

FRED MICHAELSON is one of the many reliable and enterprising citizens that
Germany has furnished the United States. He was born in Holstein, Germany,
August 23, 1830, the son of German parents. His father, John Henry Michaelson,
was a saddler and leather tanner. The family were Lutherans. The subject of this
sketch received his education in his native land, and there learned the trades
of miller and carpenter. He was a soldier in the Schleswig-Holstein army, and
served in the war against Denmark in 1849. In the battle of Idstad he received a
wound in his thigh, which made him a partial cripple for life. He came to
America and to Illinois in 1856, and, notwithstanding his lameness, he worked on
farms and in loading cars until the spring of 1859. At that time he came to
California. In Shasta County he worked both at mining and at the dairy business.
At first he was employed by James Wolf. Later, he purchased an interest in a
fruit and vegetable store, and kept it two years. Then he formed a partnership
with Frank Litsch and engaged in the general merchandise business, continuing it
until the fall of 1869. In that year Mr. Michaelson purchased a store in
Lewiston, Trinity County. Three years later he sold out, and engaged with Mr.
Reid in 1872, in the production of Angora goats. That business they followed
twelve years, having as many as 1,500 goats at one time, and receiving as high
as eighty seven and a half cents per pound for the mohair. The price went down,
however, until it reached thirty-four cents per pound, when they sold out,
getting $2,200 for 1,100 goats. Mr. Michaelson has 200 acres of land, on which
he is raising hay and vegetables. He has dealt considerably in city real estate
in Redding, has loaned money and built a number of houses. He is president of
the building association that erected the fine I. O. O. F. block, and he is a
stockholder in the building.

  Mr. Michaelson has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for twenty-four years, has
passed all the chairs of the order and has taken much interest in the society.
He is an intelligent Republican, a kind-hearted man, and is ever ready to do all
in his power for the advancement of the best interests of the county.


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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