Contra Costa County Biography

CHARLES THOMAS SHELLENBERGER

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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Charles Thomas Shellenberger, a rancher for many years in eastern Contra Costa 
County, is a man who occupies a prominent place among the representative and 
highly esteemed men of that locality. He was born in Illinois on January 29, 
1868, and is a son of John Shellenberger, who was numbered among the prominent 
men of Mackinaw, Illinois, and who served for many years as justice of the peace 
in his locality. In 1889 Charles T. Shellenberger removed to California. He 
worked out for a time, and later bought forty acres in Deer Valley. He afterward 
purchased the adjoining two acres, part of which was known as the Woodhall Smith 
place. He has always carried on general farming. He is a man of industry and 
activity, and by wise judgment and forethought has accumulated a competency. Mr. 
Shellenberger was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Heidorn on October 17, 1894, 
and to this union there have been four children - Emma Charlotte, born November 
17, 1897; Frank Rattan, born March 20, 1899; Charles Thomas, Jr., born June 3, 
1902; Henry Heidorn, born July 6, 1910. Politically, Mr. Shellenberger is a 
Progressive. He has served on the Deer Valley school board for many years. 
Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge and the Foresters of 
Brentwood. His mother, Elizabeth (Sargent) Shellenberger, was born March 19, 
1834, and died August 21, 1876. His parents were married March 3, 1853, and had 
ten children. His father was born January 14, 1824, and died January 30, 1905. 
Charles T. Shellenberger made his home in Deer Valley until 1908, when he 
removed to the Lone Tree section, where he occupies the home formerly known as 
the Darby place.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Col., 1917, 
pp. 537-538.