Yolo County Biographies


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J. L. DENNIS
 
J. L. Dennis, street sprinkler, was born in Yolo County, March 6, 1864.  His 
parents, B. S. and Elizabeth (Smith) Dennis, the former a native of Georgia and 
the latter of Missouri, have both died in Yolo County.  Since the year 1887 Mr. 
Dennis has been running an engine on a dredging machine on the Sacramento River, 
building the levee; and for the last two years he has been engaged in his 
present occupation.  He has a fine little cottage on Fourth street.  In 1887, in 
Woodland, he was united in matrimony with Miss Nellie Powers, also a native 
daughter of this county.  Her father is at present a night watch of Woodland; 
and her mother died when she was very young.  Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have one son, 
born May 9, 1888, and named Ray W.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler