San Bernardino County, CA, Biographies

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E. K. HENDERSON, 
 
a young and enterprising horticulturist on Base Line, five miles east of San 
Bernardino, was born in Benton County; Iowa, August 18, 1858. His father, Robert 
H. Henderson, of Indiana, was for fourteen years successfully engaged in farming 
in Iowa. In 1875 he came to California and first bought ten acres of land in 
Riverside
and put it out in fruit. It cost him $100 per acre, and after eight years be 
sold it for $9,600.  He had one of the best vineyards in the State, which at 
three years from planting netted him $341 per acre. He afterward moved to San 
Jose, where he died in October, 1888. He had a family of ten children, of which 
the subject of
this sketch is the seventh. He had the advantage of a good common-school 
education, and came with his father to Riverside, California, in April, 1875. He 
subsequently bought land in Redlands, which he sold after two years. In 1882 he 
bought the land on which he now lives on Base Line. Mr. Henderson was united in 
marriage to Miss Lulie Annabel, in 1878, at Riverside. This lady was born in 
Jackson, Michigan, and is a daughter of Ira Annabel. They have two bright little 
children, Earle and Claude. Both he and his wife are members of the 
Congregational Church.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  522
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler