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Nelson’s brother in law.

1881 Sept 28 Married Sarah J Brown link Sarah J Brown was Nelson’s wife’s sister. 1881-09Sep-28-OaklandTribune-marriage.png

1882 Dec 7 bought property at 29th and Church 1882-12Dec-7-property-29th-church.png

1889 Dec 10 - Nelson sold land and mortgaged it to relatives? 1889-12Dec-10-nelson-mortgage-1.png 1889-12Dec-10-nelson-mortgage-2.png

1890 Sept 7 - bailed out a friend? 1890-09Sep-7-bailed-friend.png

1890 Sept 17 - bought more at 29th and Church 1890-09Sep-17-property-29th-church.png

1891 April 10 - in business with BiL Fernando 1891-04Apr-10-business-fernando.png

1892 Oct 13 1892-10Oct-13-clipping.png

1893 May 7 1893-05May-7-clipping.png

1893 July 25 1893-07Jul-25-clipping.png

1893 Sept 4 1893-09Sep-4-clipping.png

1893 Nov 11 1893-11Nov-11-clipping.png

1895 March 15 1895-03Mar-15-clipping.png

1895 April 4 - BiL on the next line 1895-04Apr-4-brother-in-law.png

1895 April 25 - Who’s Sadie? Giving the nephew a place? (Sadie is his daughter.) 1895-04Apr-25-sadie.png

1895 May 23 1895-05May-23-clipping.png

1895 Aug 1 1895-08Aug-1-clipping.png

1895 Sept 26 1895-09Sep-26-clipping.png

1895 Nov 7 - selling off some stock? 1895-11Nov-7-selling-stock.png

1896 Feb 13 1896-02Feb-13-clipping.png

1896 April 9 1896-04Apr-9-clipping.png

1896 May 19 1896-05May-19-clipping.png

1896 Aug 6 - more into horses than cars it seems 1896-08Aug-6-horses.png

1896 Sept 10 - exciting race day? 1896-09Sep-10-race-day-1.png 1896-09Sep-10-race-day-2.png

1896 Oct 23 1896-10Oct-23-clipping-1.png 1896-10Oct-23-clipping-2.png

1897 Oct 8 1897-10Oct-8-clipping.png

1898 Oct 27 1898-10Oct-27-clipping.png

1898 Dec 23 - moving into Oakland 1898-12Dec-23-moving-oakland.png

1899 Aug 8 - Gift map?? 1899-08Aug-8-gift-map.png

1900 Feb 14 1900-02Feb-14-clipping.png

1900 May 25 - more racing, this time in Oakland (link) Hamerton’s brother also participating sounds like 1900 May 25 1900-05May-25-SFCall-racing.png

1900 May 29 - more racing, this time in Emeryville (link)

1900 June 23 - racing up in Santa Rosa for July 4th celebrations (link)

1900 July 21 1900-07Jul-21-clipping.png

1901 March 26 1901-03Mar-26-clipping.png

1901 Nov 16 1901-11Nov-16-clipping.png

This is probably someone else - Morning Echo, Bakersfield 1902 Feb 25 1902-02Feb-25-MorningEcho-someone-else.png

1902 July 17 - more racing, down in Los Angeles this time. (link)

1904 May 7 - selling/donating to the Roman Catholics? 1904-05May-7-selling-catholics.png

1904 May 21 - building contract huh 1904-05May-21-building-contract.png

1905 April 21 1905-04Apr-21-clipping.png

1905 July 8 1905-07Jul-8-clipping.png

1905 Aug 12 - it’s “and sons” now 1905-08Aug-12-and-sons.png

1906 Nov 29 - post fire, did we lose maps? “One other piece” 1906-11Nov-29-post-fire.png

1906 Dec 21 1906-12Dec-21-clipping.png

1907 Feb 28 - Woodward Subdivision?? 1907-02Feb-28-woodward-subdivision.png

1907 Oct 18 - more racing, this time back on park speedway (link)

1908 Jan 30 1908-01Jan-30-clipping.png

1909 April 24 1909-04Apr-24-clipping.png

1909 July 31 - Sons? 1909-07Jul-31-sons.png

1910 Feb 19 1910-02Feb-19-clipping.png

1910 March 23 - ah, that’s who Sadie was :( 1910-03Mar-23-sadie.png

1910 May 25 1910-05May-25-clipping.png

1910 Oct 8 1910-10Oct-8-clipping-1.png 1910-10Oct-8-clipping-2.png

1910 Nov 19 1910-11Nov-19-clipping.png

1911 Feb 18 1911-02Feb-18-clipping.png

1911 Mar 4 1911-03Mar-4-clipping.png

1911 March 18 1911-03Mar-18-clipping.png

1911 Apr 13 1911-04Apr-13-clipping.png

1911 July 1 1911-07Jul-1-clipping.png

1912 Apr 27 1912-04Apr-27-clipping.png

1912 May 4 - Again? 1912-05May-4-again.png

1912 Dec 14 1912-12Dec-14-clipping.png

1913 June 7 - this is in Nelson’s Lincoln Terrace isn’t it? 1913-06Jun-7-lincoln-terrace.png

1914 June 2 - son endorses car. (link) I wonder what dad thought of these since he seemed to take up horse racing in opposition to Nelson’s car-craziness. 1914-06Jun-2-SRPressDemocrat-endorses-car.png

1914 Nov 24 1914-11Nov-24-clipping.png

1914 Dec 12 1914-12Dec-12-clipping.png

1916 Oct 14 1916-10Oct-14-clipping.png

1919 May 31 1919-05May-31-clipping.png

1921 Feb 19 - building for Fernando Nelson in the new West Portal division? After this we no longer see “WC Hamerton and Son” it’s just AC. link 1921-02Feb-19-OrganizedLabor-west-portal.png

Alfred C Hamerton has an architecture entry: https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/1411/