Solano County Biographies

GUSTAF BERGWELL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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(deceased), born in Sweden in 1810, and came to America in or about the year 
1840, and to California via Panama, arriving at Monterey July 4, 1849.  In that 
year he commenced the dry-goods business in San Francisco, which he continued up 
to the fire of 1851, when he moved to Sonoma, where he remained till 1855, and 
moved to Vallejo in the following year, where he died on July 10, 1871; since 
which time his mercantile affairs have been carried on by his widow.  Mr. 
Bergwell was a member of the Vallejo Pioneer Association, being Vice-President 
of the society for some time.  He was also a member of the Scandinavian Society 
of San Francisco.  Married in Grace Church, in that city, April 20, 1852, Miss 
Laura Kamp, a native of Denmark, by whom there are two children � Jennie, born 
in Sonoma, February 4, 1853, married William York, April 17, 1873; and Gustaf 
A., born in Vallejo, July 14, 1861.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 332