1830-1901
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
Charles Nordhoff was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer.
He was born in Erwitte, Germany (Prussia) in 1830, and emigrated to the USA in 1845. He was educated in Cincinnati, and spent nine years at sea. From 1853 to 1857 he worked in various newspaper offices and was then employed editorially by Harpers (1861), and for the next ten years on the staff of the New York Evening Post. From 1871 to 1873 Nordhoff travelled in California.
Note: His grandson, Charles Nordhoff, was born in London on February 1, 1887, to American parents. He wrote the Bounty trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island.
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