Christian Brevoort Zabriskie (1801 - 1886)

Born 29 Jun 1801 in Bergen, New Jersey, United States

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Died 31 Oct 1886 at age 85 in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States

Biography

Candelaria True Fissure 11/6/1886

DEATH OF A PIONEER

Dr. Christian Brevoort Zabriskie died at the Reno Asylum on the thirty-first of last month. He was one of the pioneers of the Comstock having come from California to Silver City in 1860.

He never sought an office, but was for years one of the political leaders in this State, having represented Lyon County in the Republican State Convention for some eight or nine consecutive sessions and was several times elected Chairman of that body. He was for a long time Chairman of the Lyon County Central Committee.

He was an able physician, possessed of a gigantic brain and one of the handsomest men that this writer ever saw. His heart and pocket were ever open to the appeals of charity. Some years ago he was afflicted with softenng of the brain, that malady which affects so many great minds in this country, and removed to the State Insane Asylum, where he received every care possible until he passed away.

He was born in Hackensack, N. J., on the twenty-ninth day of June 1801, and was therefore 85 years, 4 months and 2 days old at the time of his death. He was father of Captain E. B. Zabriskie, of Palmetto, and grandfather of C. B. Zabriskie, of Candelaria, and as a descendant of the noble Polish family of Zaborowski, who were banished from their native country by Russian despotism several centuries ago. His majestic, towering, straight figure, clear-cut features and snowy hair and beard were well known to all old residents of the Comstock. May he gain the rest his noble life so well earned.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42474280/christian-brevoort-zabriskie

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDC8-MKY : 7 September 2017), Christian B Zabriskie, Silver City, Lyon, Nevada, United States; citing enumeration district ED 32, sheet 395C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0758; FHL microfilm 1,254,758.

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Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York, New York. Dutch Reformed Church Records from New Jersey. The Archives of the Reformed Church in America, New Brunswick, New Jersey.