Sacramento County
Biographies
CHRIS
NIELSEN
CHRIS NIELSEN, carriage and wagon manufacturer, Sacramento, is a native of Denmark, born at Gudbjerg, the Island of Fyen, in the heart of Denmark, on the 26th of July, 1851, his parents being Niels Nicolaisen and Hedwig Albertine Corfitz Datter. He was reared at his native place, and educated there between the age of seven and fourteen years. He then commenced the trade of wagon and carriage maker with his father, and served an apprenticeship of five years. He then traveled to improve himself at his trade, and worked some time at the large city of Odense. When he was twenty-one years of age he entered the army, and served in the Nineteenth Infantry Battalion for six months steadily, and after that at intervals, working at his trade in the meantime. In 1878 he came to the United States, and located at Sacramento, and went into the employ of A. Meister. He remained with him until May, 1880, when, in partnership with his brother, J. M., he started in business for himself at his present location. They were in partnership for two and a half years, since which time he has conducted the wagon and carriage making business alone. At that time he put up the large and substantial building at 1013 and 1015 Tenth street. This building stands three stories high, with its large basement, and covers an area thirty-three by eighty feet in dimensions. He has built up an extensive trade, and manufactures for the trade and to order. He has many good customers, who will have their work done at no other place, and when he gets a customer he always retains his trade. That is the natural consequence of his method of turning out nothing but honest work, of the best material and workmanship. He gets trade from points as far away as Nevada, and even has business from San Francisco, and now employs five first-class workmen. Mr. Nielsen was married in Sacramento, September 4, 1885, to Miss Louisa Ericson, a native of Sweden. Mr. Nielsen is an upright, honest, business man, pushing and active in his methods. Such men are a credit to Sacramento.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 752-753. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.