Lassen County Biographies

Charles Hartson

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
He was born in Montpelier, Vermont, January 31, 1842. He remained there eighteen 
years, attending school. In 1860 he went to New York, and in the spring of 1861 
he came to California, via Panama, and farmed in Sacramento county about four 
years. He then spent twelve years in Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, 
engaged in freighting and merchandising, and kept a hotel in Josephine county, 
Oregon, for eight years. After being in the stock business in Lake county, 
Oregon for a time, he came to Janesville in September, 1877. He has since been 
chiefly engaged in mining. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. 
lodges. In politics, he is a republican. September 20, 1865 he married Miss S. 
J. Marlett in Boise City, Idaho, born in Brown county, New York, April 17, 1848. 
Their children are George, born October 10, 1867, in Benton county, Oregon; Eva 
A., November 30, 1869, in Josephine county, Oregon; Frank E., April 5, 1872, in 
the same place; Elsie M., May 17, 1874, in same place; William, August 30, 1876, 
in Del Norte county, California; Kittie, February 22, 1878, in Lassen county; 
Hattie E., December 26, 1881, in Lassen county. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 407