. Men who made San Francisco. C. O. Swanberg FROM a sailor before the mast to a positionof importance in the San Francisco businessworld is the story of the progress of C. Born in Sweden in 1846, became a sailor at the age of 9. At1 7 he became second officer of a steamship onthe coast of Brazil and Uruguay. Afterwardhr went from Montevideo to Kallaue as chiefofficer on an English ship, and then spent sev-eral years in Peru and Ecuador, engaged invarious mercantile pursuits. He arrived in SanFrancisco m 1870, and has ever since been en-gaged here, in the State of Washin
. Men who made San Francisco. C. O. Swanberg FROM a sailor before the mast to a positionof importance in the San Francisco businessworld is the story of the progress of C. Born in Sweden in 1846, became a sailor at the age of 9. At1 7 he became second officer of a steamship onthe coast of Brazil and Uruguay. Afterwardhr went from Montevideo to Kallaue as chiefofficer on an English ship, and then spent sev-eral years in Peru and Ecuador, engaged invarious mercantile pursuits. He arrived in SanFrancisco m 1870, and has ever since been en-gaged here, in the State of Washington, and onthe Eastern coast, as well in wholesaling andplanting oysters. Mr. Swanberg is a director of the Morgan Oyster Co., president of the Mer-chants Ice and Cold Storage Co., and president and manager of the Portola Cafe. He has largefarming and dairying interests in Sweden. He has been married twice and has three
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