The hand written note states above death date and aged 87. The original note states died 2 Jan 1905, aged 86 years.
Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA)
Saturday, Jan 28, 1905, Page 4:
A Gentle Man Passes Away
"After a long decline from the ills that flesh is heir to at 87 years of age, Charles J. Arvidson Died Monday, Jan. 23rd, 1905. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he was a patriarch of Placerville. Coming to America when 21 years of age, he arrived in California in 1852. He mined two years at or near Marysville and Grass Valley, whence with his brother Arvid Arvidson, he came to Placerville in 1854. In the flush of the ever memorable fifties, the brothers did a flourishing jewelry and assaying business. Two years later their business stand was a pile of ashes, out of which rose the brick building on Main Street, now occupied by the Tracy Shoe Store, where the subject of the sketch resumed and continued his business at the old stand for many years.. In every vicissitude of fortune, and in all his varied occupations, he was a trusted and honorable man, neighbor and citizen.
In 1858, after the engagement of seven years, he was married to Miss Almira Dexter, who came from East Corinth, Maine, to share his weal and woo til death should part them. And with two daughters and two sons, she survives to share eventful recollections of the good husband and father he was. The daughters are Mrs. Lena Etzel and Miss Jennie Arvidson of this city. The sons are Charles D. and Harry A. Arvidson of Vallejo. The funeral last Wednesday from the family residence to the Masonic Plat in Union Cemetery was conducted by Rev. D. T. McClelland, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and a quartette composed of the Misses Berry and Alderson and Messrs. Burgess and Fox rendered appropriate hymns. The sympathizing presence of old time friends and aquaintances lighted up the stricken home. It was a reminder of the time when a sunny soul from far cloud-cladded Sweden, at its eary confluence in Old Hangtown, with adventurous lived from every land under the sun, made ambition virtue, extemporized a self-governed state and gave to common infirmities and misfortunes, the saving restraints and redeeming brotherhoods of humanity."
Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA)
Saturday, Jan 28, 1905, Page 4:
A Gentle Man Passes Away
"After a long decline from the ills that flesh is heir to at 87 years of age, Charles J. Arvidson Died Monday, Jan. 23rd, 1905. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he was a patriarch of Placerville. Coming to America when 21 years of age, he arrived in California in 1852. He mined two years at or near Marysville and Grass Valley, whence with his brother Arvid Arvidson, he came to Placerville in 1854. In the flush of the ever memorable fifties, the brothers did a flourishing jewelry and assaying business. Two years later their business stand was a pile of ashes, out of which rose the brick building on Main Street, now occupied by the Tracy Shoe Store, where the subject of the sketch resumed and continued his business at the old stand for many years.. In every vicissitude of fortune, and in all his varied occupations, he was a trusted and honorable man, neighbor and citizen.
In 1858, after the engagement of seven years, he was married to Miss Almira Dexter, who came from East Corinth, Maine, to share his weal and woo til death should part them. And with two daughters and two sons, she survives to share eventful recollections of the good husband and father he was. The daughters are Mrs. Lena Etzel and Miss Jennie Arvidson of this city. The sons are Charles D. and Harry A. Arvidson of Vallejo. The funeral last Wednesday from the family residence to the Masonic Plat in Union Cemetery was conducted by Rev. D. T. McClelland, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and a quartette composed of the Misses Berry and Alderson and Messrs. Burgess and Fox rendered appropriate hymns. The sympathizing presence of old time friends and aquaintances lighted up the stricken home. It was a reminder of the time when a sunny soul from far cloud-cladded Sweden, at its eary confluence in Old Hangtown, with adventurous lived from every land under the sun, made ambition virtue, extemporized a self-governed state and gave to common infirmities and misfortunes, the saving restraints and redeeming brotherhoods of humanity."
The hand written note states above death date and aged 87. The original note states died 2 Jan 1905, aged 86 years.
Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA)
Saturday, Jan 28, 1905, Page 4:
A Gentle Man Passes Away
"After a long decline from the ills that flesh is heir to at 87 years of age, Charles J. Arvidson Died Monday, Jan. 23rd, 1905. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he was a patriarch of Placerville. Coming to America when 21 years of age, he arrived in California in 1852. He mined two years at or near Marysville and Grass Valley, whence with his brother Arvid Arvidson, he came to Placerville in 1854. In the flush of the ever memorable fifties, the brothers did a flourishing jewelry and assaying business. Two years later their business stand was a pile of ashes, out of which rose the brick building on Main Street, now occupied by the Tracy Shoe Store, where the subject of the sketch resumed and continued his business at the old stand for many years.. In every vicissitude of fortune, and in all his varied occupations, he was a trusted and honorable man, neighbor and citizen.
In 1858, after the engagement of seven years, he was married to Miss Almira Dexter, who came from East Corinth, Maine, to share his weal and woo til death should part them. And with two daughters and two sons, she survives to share eventful recollections of the good husband and father he was. The daughters are Mrs. Lena Etzel and Miss Jennie Arvidson of this city. The sons are Charles D. and Harry A. Arvidson of Vallejo. The funeral last Wednesday from the family residence to the Masonic Plat in Union Cemetery was conducted by Rev. D. T. McClelland, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and a quartette composed of the Misses Berry and Alderson and Messrs. Burgess and Fox rendered appropriate hymns. The sympathizing presence of old time friends and aquaintances lighted up the stricken home. It was a reminder of the time when a sunny soul from far cloud-cladded Sweden, at its eary confluence in Old Hangtown, with adventurous lived from every land under the sun, made ambition virtue, extemporized a self-governed state and gave to common infirmities and misfortunes, the saving restraints and redeeming brotherhoods of humanity."
Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA)
Saturday, Jan 28, 1905, Page 4:
A Gentle Man Passes Away
"After a long decline from the ills that flesh is heir to at 87 years of age, Charles J. Arvidson Died Monday, Jan. 23rd, 1905. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he was a patriarch of Placerville. Coming to America when 21 years of age, he arrived in California in 1852. He mined two years at or near Marysville and Grass Valley, whence with his brother Arvid Arvidson, he came to Placerville in 1854. In the flush of the ever memorable fifties, the brothers did a flourishing jewelry and assaying business. Two years later their business stand was a pile of ashes, out of which rose the brick building on Main Street, now occupied by the Tracy Shoe Store, where the subject of the sketch resumed and continued his business at the old stand for many years.. In every vicissitude of fortune, and in all his varied occupations, he was a trusted and honorable man, neighbor and citizen.
In 1858, after the engagement of seven years, he was married to Miss Almira Dexter, who came from East Corinth, Maine, to share his weal and woo til death should part them. And with two daughters and two sons, she survives to share eventful recollections of the good husband and father he was. The daughters are Mrs. Lena Etzel and Miss Jennie Arvidson of this city. The sons are Charles D. and Harry A. Arvidson of Vallejo. The funeral last Wednesday from the family residence to the Masonic Plat in Union Cemetery was conducted by Rev. D. T. McClelland, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and a quartette composed of the Misses Berry and Alderson and Messrs. Burgess and Fox rendered appropriate hymns. The sympathizing presence of old time friends and aquaintances lighted up the stricken home. It was a reminder of the time when a sunny soul from far cloud-cladded Sweden, at its eary confluence in Old Hangtown, with adventurous lived from every land under the sun, made ambition virtue, extemporized a self-governed state and gave to common infirmities and misfortunes, the saving restraints and redeeming brotherhoods of humanity."
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