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 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm CHARLES N. SANDESON. � An early settler in the Coalinga district, a rancher and stockman of the progressive type who does things on a splendid scale, is Charles N. Sandeson, a Nova Scotian by birth, who was born in Colchester County on June 22, 1875. He was reared and educated in the East, and as a young man followed mill work and lumbering. When he was just twenty-one, in 1896, he arrived in California and at once entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Bakersfield, from which place he was transferred to Coalinga in 1897. For four years he was section foreman of that district. He next became local agent for the Union National San Joaquin Ice Company at Coalinga, and then he engaged in the butcher business, opening the Crescent Meat Market, which he ran for a couple of years and sold to Kreyenhagen Bros. For the next ten years he was engaged in the hay and grain business, and for that purpose he built a warehouse on E Street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. He also engaged in teaming to the oil fields, employing thirteen men and sixty head of horses and mules. He bought and sold mules and horses ; and as he has always been a lover of horses, he still owns a few fine specimens of high grade draft horses. Mr. Sandeson next bought a ranch of seventy acres at Story. Madera County; and there he has developed one of the best dairy farms in all the valley. lie has a herd of thirty Holstein cows with a pure-bred registered bull, that he bought at the Panama-Pacific Fair at San Francisco in 1915. The buildings are lighted by electricity, and the power used for the machinery is also electrical. Pumping plants draw from two wells, and bring all the water needed to a concrete head-gate. Mr. Sandeson owns a one-third interest in two warehouses at Story � one he erected, and the other he bought from Rosenthal & Kutner. He owns 640 acres of a mountain ranch formerly the old Fowler place, located in Warthan Canyon above Coalinga, and he rents the John Frame ranch of 920 acres adjoining the Milton Douglas ranch of 640 acres, and the Harly Joslyn place of 320 acres, and there he ranges cattle. As a cattleman operating ex- tensively he still finds time for ventures in other fields, and in partnership with Jacob Zwang, under the firm name of Sandeson & Zwang, he farms about 4,000 acres of rented land near Pleasant Valley which he has planted to barley. On this farm he has every modern farming equipment, including Holt harvester and caterpillar engines ; and he owns a quarter interest in a ranch of 423 acres on Bear Creek, in Merced County, which is partly in grain, while the rest is devoted to pasture. He possesses an eighty-acre ranch near Lemoore, Kings County, and there he has corrals and barns for his stock. He owns his own home, in Coalinga, and six town lots, besides the warehouse. At Oakland, September 28, 1899. Mr. Sandeson married Mary Sandeson, a lady of the same name, but not related, who was also born in Colchester County. Mr. Sandeson is a member of the Elks lodge at Hanford, and the Masons at Coalinga, having been made a Mason in Lemoore Lodge, No. 255, F. & A. M. He is a member of the California Cattle Growers Association, and became one of the directors of the Coalinga National Bank ; and when it was consolidated with the First National Bank, was elected a director therein and still holds that office.