Alameda County Biographies

Niels P. Friedriiksen

Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan

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Niels P. Friedriiksen, the Jr. partner of the firm of Tocker & Friedriiksen, proprietors of the 
Fashion Stables at Pleasanton, was born in Holstein, Germany, July 7,1869, and brought up there, 
upon his father�s farm. He is the second son of Niels P. and Netta Marie (Nielsen) Friedriiksen, 
natives of Schleswig, who had four children. The subject of this brief sketch came to America in 
1883, sailing from Antwerp to San Francisco. He first located in Solano County, were he worked 
on a farm for a few months; then he settled near Haywards, Alameda County, where he engaged in 
agricultural pursuits until 1888, when he made a visit to his native land. A year afterward he 
returned to Haywards and in March 1890, he settled at Pleasanton, in the business already 
mentioned. He was naturalized in 1889, is unmarried and is a member of Haywards Lodge, No.14, 
Sons of Hermann.    

Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891, Page 818