California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


CHARLES E. DAHL. � Among the well known and successful business 
men of Fort Bragg; can be mentioned Charles E. Dahl, a native of Replat, 
Vasaland, Finland, born June 24, 1874, and he received a good education in 
the common schools of that locality, January 10, 1891, he emigrated to 
Michigan and immediately came on to Greenwood, Mendocino county. Cat., 
where he was in the employ of the lumber company. He followed the busi- 
ness for many years, two years being spent at Santa Cruz in the same line 
of work. After his marriage at Greenwood, which united him with Miss Anna 
Lorholm, he engaged in business there until 1901, when he came to Fort 
Bragg and purchased the Eagle hotel. Two years later he sold it and built 
a business house on the corner of Redwood avenue and Franklin street. 
Meantime he made a trip back to the old home in Finland and upon his return 
was more pleased with this country than before. In 1907 he sold the building 
on Redwood avenue and Franklin street and purchased the Fort Bragg cigar 
factory. After continuing the business for one year he sold it. In 1908 he 
purchased the lot on Franklin street where his present hotel stands and built 
the White House hotel, of which he has since been proprietor. He also owns 
a fifty-foot-front business house on Franklin street opposite his hotel. 

Mr. Dahl owns a comfortable modern residence which he built on the 
corner of Fir and McPherson streets, where he resides with his wife and four 
children, the latter being Alfred, Jennie, Einar and Clarence. Fraternally he 
is a member of the Red Men, Eagles, Druids, Moose and Royal Arch, to whose 
philanthropies he is a liberal contributor. While he has never sought office 
he is an influential man and is a stanch Republican.