California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


CHRISTIAN HANSEN.  Was born in Kongsburg, Norway, December 24,1852, and is the son of Hans 
Hansen and Karena Christiansen. He resided at his birthplace until he was nineteen years of age, when 
he immigrated to America, and settled in Batavia, Illinois. In his native country he served an 
apprenticeship to the tailor's trade under his father; and on his arrival in Batavia he immediately began 
work at his trade, and followed it for nine months. He then went to Chicago, where he found 
employment for a short time. Thence he went to Aurora, Illinois, where he worked for one year. Then 
he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained until he came to California, in 1873. He first 
located in San Francisco, where he followed his trade until 1878, when he, with his present partner, 
Mr. Olsen, came to Napa City, and began their present business of merchant tailoring, in connection 
with which they carry a complete line of gentlemen's furnishing goods. He was married August 7,1878, 
to Miss Emma Buttoff, who was born in Mendocino County, California, in the year 1859.