CHARLES GOLDEN SHIPMAN

Charles Golden Shipman, who died January 23, 1901, was one of the arrivals within the Golden Gate in the days of ’49 and for many years active in business in this state.

He was born at New Haven, Connecticut, February 17, 1830. His grandmother was a Ball, a sister of Mary Ball, who married Augustine Washington and became the mother of George Washington.

Charles Golden Shipman was nineteen years old when on February 9, 1849, he embarked on the sailing vessel Clarissa Perkins from the harbor of New York, and started on the long voyage around the Horn. The ship went through snowstorms and gales and did not arrive in San Francisco until September 12, eight months later. In San Francisco, Mr. Shipman was employed as a clerk by Dunbar Gibbs for three years, and in 1863 removed to Santa Rosa, where he was with the firm of Marks and Rosenberg. Subsequently he went to Foulson, Sacramento County, with Hyman Company. He was a member of the Society of California Pioneers and was reared in the Episcopal Church.

In 1861 Mr. Shipman married Rebecka Ann Beaver at Gilroy, California. Their one child is Charles Henry Shipman, a contractor in the electrical business, a member of the firm of Shipman and Lower in San Francisco. On September 17, 1904, he married Medey C. Corbett. Their home is at 107 Seventh Avenue.

Transcribed by Donna Becker.

Source: "The San Francisco Bay Region" Vol. 3 page 194 by Bailey Millard. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.

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