The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 925 

CHARLES TISSELL.

Sweden had furnished a good quota to the citizenship of Yakima county and the
sons of that land have proven substantial supporters of the work of progress and
development here. Mr. Tissell is of this number. He was born in Sweden,
December 2, 1858, a son of Erick Anderson and Carrie Johnson, who spent their
entire lives in Sweden, where the father made farming his life work. He died at
the extreme old age of ninety-nine years, while his wife passed away when she
was seventy years of age. He was a son of Erick Erickson, who died at the age of
ninety-three years after rearing a family of twelve children. The ancestry of
Mr. Tissell is certainly a notable one for longevity and also for their large
families, for the father of Mr. Tissell had sixteen children.

After spending the first twenty-six years of his life in his native country
Charles Tissell crossed the Atlantic to the new world and took up his abode in
Kansas, where he worked as a farm hand. He afterward became a resident of
Emporia, Kansas, where he was employed as a gardener, and subsequently he
removed to Omaha, Nebraska, where he worked in connection with the packing
business. He afterward took up the carpenter's trade, which he followed for many
years, and in 1914 he became identified with the northwest through the purchase
of ten acres of land on Academy Heights in Yakima county. He has four acres
planted to apples, while the remainder of his land is devoted to the raising of
hay. He removed to this place in the spring of 1917 and built a fine home and
good barns upon his ranch. He is now concentrating his efforts and attention
upon its further development and cultivation with good results.

On the 27th of October, 1888, Mr. Tissell was united in marriage to Miss Annie
Nystrom, who was also born in Sweden, a sister of Nels Nystrom, who is mentioned
elsewhere in this work. They have five children: Hulda, who is now successfully
teaching school in Omaha, Nebraska; Arthur, who is engaged in ranching in Yakima
county; and Esther, Elmer and Fridolph, all at home.

The parents and children are all members of the Swedish Mission church, and Mr.
Tissell gives his political endorsement to the republican party. It was a
fortunate day for him when he decided to cast in his lot with the settlers of
the northwest. Here he found opportunities for advancement and steadily he has
progressed, winning a substantial prosperity which enables him to enjoy all of
the comforts of life in the control of a successful business.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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