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A shipmaster who worked the Redwood Coast along California and Oregon in the United States of America.

1899

In 1899, he commanded the Newsboy a wooden steam schooner

1904

From 1904 – 1906, he commanded the Brunswick, a wooden steam schooner

1906

17 Jun 1906 The Sunday Oregonian of Portland, Oregon on it states that: SAN FRANCISCO. June 16. Captain Ellefson, of the steam schooner Brunswick, fired seven shots last night at five union pickets who steamed out to his vessel to investigate his nonunion crew. The shots were fired as a warning to keep the pickets away from the Brunswick and no one was hit: The launch used by the Sailors’ Union went out at 11 o’clock last night to where the Brunswick lay at the foot of Stuart street. Andrew Keincr was in charge, and there were also a coxswain and three others on board. When they…