Sacramento County
Biographies
NIELS H. LAURIDSON
NIELS H. LAURIDSON.--Another prominent
farmer of Placerville Road
is Niels H. Lauridson, who
came to Sacramento County
in 1869. He has resided on his present
place since 1887, although owning it since 1883, and now has 460 choice
acres. He was born in Denmark, on
January 29, 1846, and had the advantages of fair educational facilities, while
he was growing to manhood, in his native country. When he was twenty-two years old, he took
passage at Hamburg for New York, and from the Eastern metropolis he went to
Polk County, Wis., and a short time later, came to California. He not only farmed, but he was one of the
organizers and directors of the Sacramento Rochdale
Company, and he became a founder and a director of the Farmers’ Mutual
Insurance Company of Sacramento County. Before taking up farming, he had been a
carpenter.
Mr.
Lauridson married, for the first time, Miss Emma
Doan, of Sacramento, an on November 21, 1889, he married his present wife, Miss
Martha Criswell, who was born in Santa Clara County, the daughter of Archibald
and Elizabeth (Kilgore) Criswell—the latter having come across the great plains
and mountains with her parents as early as 1852. Mr. And Mrs. Lauridson
are active members of the American River Grange No. 172, of which he has served
as master, and in which she has filled various offices. Mr. Lauridson
affiliates with the Industrial Lodge, No. 157, I. O. O. F., of Sacramento,
while Mrs. Lauridson is a member of the social and
literary organization known as the Thursday Club at Fair Oaks. They have an adopted daughter, Caherine Lauridson.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 990. Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.