Vocation
Bonsall began his civilian career in the insurance business in Portsmouth, then for two years was one of the editors and publishers of the Portsmouth Tribune. The family then moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he resumed the insuranc business and was also publisher of an insurance journal.
In November 1866 the family moved to Los Angeles, where he began a real estate business along with Theodore Wiesendanger in the Bryson Block at the corner of Main and Court streets. He later became a traveling adjuster for an insurance company.
In 1887 Bonsall was an investor in the Centinela Land Company, headed by developer Daniel Freeman, and the Redondo Beach Company, as well as the Anaheim Street Car Company, with Wiesendanger. In 1889 he was one of the investors in a proposed narrow-gauge railway between Los Angeles and Redondo, with "steamers, tugs, vessels, barges, etc., to run in connection with the railway."
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