Butte County
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SIGVARD HASSEL
SIGVARD HASSEL.--Numbered among the industrious and enterprising men of Chico, is Sigvard Hassel, who was born at Haugesund, Norway, on December 16, 1879. His father was Captain Andrew hassle, who went to sea and in the course of his business, sailed all over the world. He was the master of his own vessel and was engaged in the coasting trade in many different countries. Of his three children, Sigvard Hassel was the second oldest and the only one in America.
Sigvard Hassel was reared in Haugesund and attended the public schools of his native city. After completing the high school he had a few trips with his father, and then decided that he wished to follow the trade of a carpenter, to which he was apprenticed for four years.
In 1900, Mr. Hassel came to America and located at Jewell Junction, Iowa, and there followed his trade for about a year; then traveled through the Middle West, working at his trade until 1902, when he came to California and soon after located in Chico, where he worked as a carpenter for about a year, and then entered the employ of the Sierra Lumber Company in that capacity. Mr. Hassel worked here until the firm was sold to the Diamond Match Company, where he still continued to work as a carpenter in the sash and door plant, of which plant he became foreman in 1913. When the new planing mill started at Chico, Mr. Hassel became foreman. The mill employs about forty-five men and in addition to sash-and-door work, does cabinet work, apiary supplies, etc.
Mr. Hassel was married, in Chico, to Miss Senne Reines, also a native of Haugesund. They have four children: Helen, Elise, Marie, and Harold. Mr. Hassel built his own residence at 42 East Sixth Street. Fraternally, he is a Mason, and belongs to Chico Lodge, No. 111, F. & A. M.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1276-1277, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Joyce Rugeroni.
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