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NEIL ANDERSON
Bio-Pen Pictures
SURNAMES: CHRISTIANSON,
NEIL ANDERSON, who is extensively engaged in
stock-raising and in butchering, at New Almaden, is a native of
Schleswig-Holstein, born November 12, 1850, his parents being Andrew
and Katherina (Christianson) Anderson. He was reared at this
native place, attending school from the age of six to fifteen years,
and then engaged in clerking. In 1859 he emigrated to America,
landing at Quebec June 1. From there he went to Chicago, and a
few days later to Marquette County, Michigan, where he was employed by
the Iron Cliff Mining Company. For eighteen months he followed
mining, and for one year ran one of the engines. From 1871 to
1873 he conducted a saw-mill, but then came to California, and has been
a the New Almaden mines ever since. At first he was engaged in
the furnaces, afterward in the machine shop. He ran the hoisting
works of the Isabella shaft for eighteen months, or until leaving the
employ of the company, in 1880. He engaged in farming and
stock-raising, and in September took charge of the butchering business
of New Almaden, and has a shop at the hacienda, and one on the hill.
Mr. Anderson was married, at New Almaden, October 5, 1879, to Miss Prudence Pan, a native of California. They have two children: Ada Louis and Charles Andrew.
Mr. Anderson is a member
of Lodge 34, I. O. O. F., and of Mount Hamilton Lodge, A. O. U. W.,
also of the Guaranty Fund Lodge, San Francisco.
SOURCE: Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or
Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H.S.
Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
page 628 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
Santa Clara County Family Chronicles
Santa Clara County History- The Valley of Heart's Delight
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