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CHARLES KNUDSEN
A resident of California since 1895,
Charles Knudsen was born on the Isle of Fyen,
Denmark, on May 30, 1869, a son of Knud Lars and Eda Knudsen. The
father was born in Upsi, Schleswig, Germany; later
removing to Denmark he became a prominent educator and the greater portion of
his life was spent in instructing the young of his native country. He reached the ripe old age of eighty-two,
the mother living to be the same age. They
were the parents of six children: August; Marie resides in San Francisco; Ida;
Charles; Sophie and Helga.
Charles received a good education in
the grammar schools of his native land, and at the age of twenty-two he came to
the United States, going at once to Nebraska; in 1895 he came to Lockeford, San
Joaquin County, California, and has since resided there. He secured work on the ranch of Dr. Barbour,
where he remained for two years caring for an eighty-acre orchard; he then
continued working for wages on various ranches until he had acquired a fund of
useful knowledge regarding agriculture, then he rented eighty acres of land
near Lockeford which he farmed for several years. He then purchased twenty acres of open land
about two miles from Lockeford on the Stockton Highway, thirteen acres of which
he set to vineyard, being among the first to plant vines in this district.
The marriage of Mr. Knudsen occurred
in the city of Stockton and united him with Miss Helen Bosson. Mrs. Knudsen is a native of Schleswig,
Germany, and her father was one of the first soldiers drafted into the army in
1871 and lost his life in that war. She
attended school in her native land, and when she was seventeen years old came
to Iowa alone, remaining there about eight months; then removed to Nebraska,
where she remained four months; then to California in1886. She remained three years, then returned to
Nebraska, and later came again to California.
They are the parents of two sons:
Lawrence is a bookkeeper with the Standard Oil Company at Lodi. During the late war he enlisted in the
Marines and was sent to the Island of Guam where he served for three years;
then was released for reserve duty. He
married Miss Bernice Brierly of Lodi. Arthur Knudsen is a student of dentistry in
the University of California Dental College in San
Francisco. Politically Mr. Knudsen is a
Democrat.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1537. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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