Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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E. M. MIKKELSEN. � Good and effectual boosters of the industrious, 
thrifty, progressive, successful and happy sort, such as arc always a credit 
to the land from .which they come, while they are a blessing to the United 
States, and just such pioneers as Fresno delights to welcome and to honor, 
are Mr. and Mrs. Mikkelsen, a contented, confident couple of superior and 
impressive personality. They own a twenty-acre ranch near the Ross school- 
house, two miles south of Parlier, and all who know them respect them and 
wish them well. 

E. M. Mikkelsen was born at Hirtshals, Denmark, near the Skagerack 
Light House, on March 20, 1871, and attended the Danish common schools, 
fourteen to eighteen he followed fishing; and having tasted of the romance of 
sea-life, he came to America and settled at Merrill, Wis. He sailed from 
Hamburg on the steamship Prussia of the Hamburg-American line, and on 
March 28, 1880. landed at the old Castle Garden in New York City. 

Settling in Wisconsin, he engaged in the arduous and dangerous work 
of a woodsman in the service of various lumber companies, and for five 
seasons drove timber down the Wisconsin. Then he moved to Minneapolis 
and there, with a partner, ran a Merry-go-Round, continuing to manage the 
amusement for a year and a half. He realized considerable income from his 
combined labors and investment, and began to plan greater things. 

Between 1898 and 1900, Mr. Mikkelsen made a visit to Denmark, and 
coming back to America and the Pacific Coast, he settled in San Francisco 
and engaged in the oyster business. He became the foreman for the Morgan 
Oyster Company, being with them seven years. He then made a second 
trip to Denmark, staying a year; and after he returned in 1910, he was mar- 
ried, at San Francisco, to Miss Johanna Christina Fredericksen, a daughter 
of Denmark, who had come to Iowa when she was sixteen years old, and 
there became a trained nurse in the Sioux City Hospital. Later she came 
to San Francisco and continued her nursing; and when she married, she was 
finely equipped for pioneer work. Mr. Mikkelsen bought his place in 1909, 
and soon after his marriage made it his home. They have one child, the 
light and life of the household, Envoid Miller, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mikkelsen are members of the Danish Baptist Church in 
Selma. They are thus disposed to aid in building up and improving Parlier 
in every respect. They also belong to the Danish Brotherhood. As mem- 
bers of the Peach Growers and Raisin Growers associations they also labor 
to advance Central California's great industries, and they put in many days 
of effectual work in the great raisin drive in the winter of 1917 and 1918. 
They are enthusiastic advertisers of the country and the county in which 
they have had their prosperity; and as loyal citizens, they vote for the best 
man and the highest principles.