Marin County Biographies

ALFRED C. MATHESON

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Born in Denmark, November 29, 1831.  When 
sixteen years of age he went to sea, an occupation he followed for ten years.  
In 1853, he came to California and was engaged for two years with a United 
States surveying corps, after which he engaged in business in San Francisco 
until 1862, when he removed to Bloomfield, Sonoma county, and in 1863 came to 
Marin and settled on his present farm, consisting of one hundred and fifty acres 
in San Antonio township, near the Sonoma line.  Married December 14, 1867, 
Baletta Baker, by whom he has William, Alfred, Charles and Walter.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880