Napa County Biographies
Christian P. Adamson
Christian P. Adamson - Son of Nicholas and Mary Anderson Adamson, was born in Holstein, at that time under
the Danish Government (his parents being German), August 13, 1834. He resided in his birthplace until the
age of sixteen, when he went to sea, and followed a seafaring life until he came to California, He sailed
from New York in a clipper ship via, Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco in April, 1854. He immediately
went to Sonoma County, where he only stayed a short time, when he came to Napa, and worked for W. A. Fisher,
staying around Napa for about eighteen months. He then went to the mines of Parks & Long, on the Yuba River,
and remained for one year and a half. He then moved to Eldorado County, and there embarked in mining, where he
continued about six months, when Mr. Adamson next went to the Fraser River district, and prosecuted mining in
that place. He only remained six months, having some trouble and a few skirmishes with the Indians, when he
returned to Napa, and farmed until 1860. In that year he went to Cariboo, where he remained one year; and
then in 1861 Mr. Adamson once more returned to Napa County, and rented the farm now owned by Garfield,
and followed farming for three years. He next went to Berryessa Valley, and rented the Lawley place, where
he farmed one year. He then rented a farm owned by Clark, and remained the same time as on his previous place.
He then purchased his present place, but still rented a tract of land of two thousand acres on the New York
grant, near Antioch, Contra Costa County, where he fanned three years. He then took some forty mules and
machinery and farming implements, and moved to Stoney Creek, Colosa County, and rented two thousand acres
of the Welsh tract, remaining on that place for four years, and then came to his present place, where he
has since resided. Mr. Adamson owns one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, eighty-seven of which are
in grapes. Married April 11, 1878, to Miss Lizzie Mills, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 22,
1858, by which union they have two children: Frankie, born May 19, 1879; William G., born June 17, 1880.
History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Pages 371 - 372
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