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                            Introduction
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Charles Nordhoff (31 August 1830 - 14 July 1901) was an American
journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer.


                             Biography
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He was born in Erwitte, Kingdom of Prussia, in 1830, and emigrated to
the United States with his parents in 1835. He was educated in
Cincinnati, and apprenticed to a printer in 1843. In 1844, he went to
Philadelphia where he worked for a short time in a newspaper office.

He then joined the United States Navy in 1845 (aged 15), where he
served three years and made a voyage around the world in the USS
Columbus (1819), which was engaged in first attempts at opening up
Japan to the U.S.A, and in establishing full diplomatic relations with
China. After his Navy service, he remained at sea from 1847 in the
merchant service, and then whaling, mackerel fishery ships until 1854
(aged 24).

From 1853 to 1857, he worked in various newspaper offices, first in
Philadelphia, then in Indianapolis. He was then employed editorially
by Harpers in 1857 until 1861, when he went to work the next ten years
on the staff of the New York 'Evening Post', 1861-1871, and he later
contributed to the New York 'Tribune'.

From 1871 to 1873 Nordhoff traveled in California and visited Hawaii.
He then became Washington correspondent of the New York 'Herald'
1874-1890. Nordhoff died in San Francisco, California.

'The Valley of Cross Purposes', an extensive biography by Carol Frost,
PhD, was published in 2017.


                               Family
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He was the father of Walter Nordhoff (1855-1937), author of 'The
Journey of the Flame', penned under the name "Antonio de Fierro
Blanco", and of Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff (ca. 1865-1898), America's
first female bookbinder and printmaker.

He was the grandfather of Charles Bernard Nordhoff, co-author of
'Mutiny on the Bounty'.


                               Legacy
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Nordhoff High School in Ojai, California and Nordhoff Street in the
San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles are named in his honor.


                               Works
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His most widely known books are 'Communistic Societies of The United
States', and 'California for Health, Pleasure and Residence'.

* Kern, 'Practical Landscape Gardening', editor (Cincinnati, 1855)
* 'Man-of-War Life: a Boy's Experience in the U. S. Navy', largely
autobiographical (Cincinnati, 1855)
* 'The Merchant Vessel' (1855)
* 'Whaling and Fishing' (1855; new edition, 1903)
* 'Nine Years as a Sailor' (1857)
* 'Stories from the Island World' (New York, 1857)
* 'Secession Is Rebellion: the Union Indissoluble' (1860)
* 'The Freedmen of South Carolina: Some Account of their Appearance,
Character, Condition, and Customs' (1863)
* [https://archive.org/details/americaforfreewo00nord 'America for
Free Working Men!'] (1865)
* 'Cape Cod and All Along Shore', a collection of stories (1868)
* 'California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence' (1873)
* 'Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands' (1874)
* 'Politics for Young Americans' (1875) This was adopted as a school
textbook.
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=3e52RP78Vt4C&pg=PR7-IA5 'The
Communistic Societies of the United States'] (1875)
* 'The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875' (1876)
* 'God and the Future Life' (1881)
* 'A Guide to California, the Golden State' (1883)
* 'The merchant vessel - a sailor boy's voyages around the world'
(1884)
* 'Peninsular California' (1888)


                             References
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*"Inventing Ojai: When Edward Libbey's Vision Met Our Reality," by
Mark Lewis, Ojai Quarterly magazine, Fall 2016, p.p. 123-126


                           External links
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* [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/5/ The Perfectionists of Oneida
and Wallingford (online text)]--Includes description of their "complex
marriage" and rites of "criticism."
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[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2000.02.0202
California: for health, pleasure, and residence. A book for travellers
and settlers (online text)]


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