Yolo County Biographies


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GEORGE W. HEMENWAY
 
Postmaster at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of Henry B. and Eunice (Guild) 
Hemenway, the former, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1813, and died March 
17, 1875; the latter, born in 1815, in Vermont, is still living in Wheaton, 
Illinois.  George was born at Wayne, Illinois, thirty miles west of Chicago, 
June 17, 1842; graduated at the Commercial College at Wheaton, learned the trade 
of printer, and from the age of twenty-seven years to about thirty-six years he 
was a book-keeper in Chicago.  In 1877 he moved to Lyon County, Kansas, and 
purchased a farm of 240 acres, which he improved until 1887, when he came direct 
to his present place of residence.  On coming to California, he did not dispose 
of his Kansas farm, lest he might wish to return to it; but he is more than 
pleased with the Golden State, and his intention is to remain at Winters, where 
he has purchased a fine home and two stores occupied by A. Hazelrigg.  He is at 
present Postmaster of the village, and ere this sketch is printed he will have 
established also a stationery store.
            In 1869, in Chicago, he was united in matrimony with Anna P. Filer, 
a native of Illinois, and they have five children:  Walter, born in 1817; Ella, 
1873; Fred, 1875; Harvey, 1879; Jessie, 1887.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler