Sonoma-San Joaquin-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Queen, Christopher 1842 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Queen, Christopher. The subject of this sketch is a lineal descendant of one of
the oldest families of France. The original name was Du Quien, but has been
Americanized into its present form. As long ago as the year 1700, a large family
of this name resided near Marseilles, France. About this time, one of its
members, Jean Philip, embraced the Huguenot religion, and removed to another
part of the kingdom, where Protestantism was tolerated. There he erected a
mansion, which has been the birth-place and home of six generations of the
family. The capstone across the entrance still bears his name and the date
(1717) of its erection. At the beginning of the Jacobin revolution of 1793, the
Du Quiens, having been long connected with the royal government, followed the
fortunes of the king and fled the country. They remained in England and on the
continent until Napoleon had assumed the reins of government, when they were
allowed to return; but only to find most of their property confiscated. The
father of the subject joined the army and served seven years; after which he
returned to his home, married, and a few years later, with his young family, of
whom Christopher was the eldest, having been born August 5, 1842, emigrated to
America. They landed at New Orleans, and settled at Peoria, Illinois, in 1853.
Young Christopher's early years were spent in helping the father to gain a
livelihood for the family, and as. much of an education as the circumstances
would permit. On the 28th of April, 1861; he started for California across the
plains, in the company organized by Captain William S. Moss, now of the San
Francisco Examiner, arriving here in October of the same year. He remained in
Stockton for several months, and in the winter went to Placer county, where he
was chiefly engaged in running a pony express from Iowa Hill to the several
mining camps in that section. In the spring of 1863, during the mining
excitement at Squaw valley, near lake Tahoe, he went thither, This excitement,
like many others, proved to be a "will-o'-the-wisp." Mr. Queen engaged to sail a
boat on the lake for the season, and in the Fall returned to Iowa Hill. In July,
1865, he went to Illinoistown (now Colfax), Placer county, the then terminus of
the Central Pacific railroad, and was there appointed Deputy-Sheriff under
William Sexton, re-appointed under A. W. Poole, the present United States
Marshal, and again under J. H. Neff. On the 14th of February, 1869, he went into
the employ of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, and remained with that company until
September 10, 1878. During part of this time he was stationed at Reno, Nevada.
He resigned his position, and with Warren Dutton, of Tomales, and Samuel Rien,
of Duncan's Mill, formed a co-partnership to succeed Messrs. Thomas Beaccin &
Co. in the management of the north coast stage lines, of which business he had
the immediate control. The business has undergone some change since then, and
Mr. Queen is now connected with George Allman of San Francisco, in the stage
lines, and with John Clark in the livery business at Duncan's Mill. He is a
live, thorough-going business man, and one with whom it is a pleasure and a
profit to meet.

Additional Comments:
Ocean Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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