MINERAL NV Archives Obituaries.....[ZABRISKIE, Christian Brevoort]
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Candelaria True Fissure
11/6/1886

DEATH OF A PIONEER

Dr. Christian Brevoort Zabriskie died at the REno Asylum on the 
thirty-first of last month.  He was one of the p;ioneers of the 
Comstock having come from California to Silver City in 1860.  
He never sought an office, but was for years one of the political 
leaders in this State, having represented Lyon County in the 
Republican State Convention for some eight or nine consecutive 
sessions and was several times elected Chairman of that body.  He
was for a long time Chairman of the Lyon County Central Committee.  
He was an able physician, possessed of a gigantic brain and one of 
the handsomest men that this writer ever saw.  His heart and pocket 
were ever open to the appeals of charity.  Some years ago he was 
afflicted with softenng of the brain, that malady which affects so 
many great minds in this country, and removed to the State Insane 
Asylum, where he received every care possible until he passed away.

He was born in Hackensack, N. J., on the twenty-ninth day of June 
1801, and was therefore 85 years, 4 months and 2 days old at the 
time of his death.  He was father of Ca;ptain E. B. Zabriskie, of 
Palmetto, and grandfather of C. B. Zabriskie, of Candelaria, and 
was a descendant of the noble Polish family of Zaborowski, who 
were banished from their native country by Russion despotism several 
centuries ago.  His majestic, towering, straight figure, clear-cut 
features and snowy hair and beard were well known to all old residents 
of the Comstock.  May he gain the rest his noble life so well earned.