Sacramento County
Biographies
LOUIS CHRISTENSEN
LOUIS CHRISTENSEN--A representative of a pioneer family established at Franklin, Sacramento County, more than half a century ago, Louis Christensen has spent practically all his life in the county of his birth. He was born at Franklin on October 12, 1872, his parents being Robert and Lena Christensen, both natives of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The father came to California in the sixties and settled at Franklin, where he became a large grain and stock farmer, living to be sixty-eight years old, Mrs. Christensen passing away at the age of sixty-nine.
One of a family of eight children, Louis Christensen attended the Carroll school in his boyhood and remained on the home ranch until he was twenty-six, when he went to San Francisco and for the next twelve years was with the George W. McNear Company there. Upon returning to Sacramento County, he worked for five years in the Southern Pacific rolling mills at Sacramento and then came to Galt and purchased 225 acres three miles northwest of town. He has since made this his home and has added many improvements, devoting his acreage to general ranching, with the exception of twelve acres which is in orchard.
At Sacramento, April 15, 1891, Mr. Christensen was married to Miss Anna May Ferguson, who was born at the old home place northwest of Galt, the daughter of William Harry and Eliza Jane (Uren) Ferguson, her father being a well-known pioneer resident of this section. Mrs. Christensen has one brother, William George Ferguson, who resides on a part of the old Ferguson ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Christensen had two children: Irene died at the age of eighteen and Cleonice is a student at the Galt high school. Mrs. Christensen passed away in 1912, deeply mourned by her family and many friends. A Republican in politics, Mr. Christensen is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Native Sons of the Golden West at Galt.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 695. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.