Humboldt County, CA and Trinity County, CA Biographies

Pioneer days in California: (1891)
By: Carr, John, 1827-1896
Humboldt County (Calif.) - Biography; Trinity County (Calif.) - Biography
Publisher: Eureka, Cal., Times publishing company

CHAPTER XLVII. BIOGRAPHY. 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 



HENDERSON, JAMES W.� Native of St. Lawrence county, New 
York ; came to California February 14, 1850, crossing the Isthmus. 
Mined two and one-half years on the American River. Made three trips 
across the plains driving stock in 1853, 1854 and 1856. Lived in Sonoma 
county nine years, engaged in ranching and staging. He came to Hum- 
boldt during the coal oil excitement, and operated two years; he was ap- 
pointed Register of the U. S. Land Office, which position he held three 
years, and then engaged in the real estate business: was a promoter of 
the first railroad in Humboldt county; was one of the incorporators of 
the Eureka and Eel River Railroad. At present is engaged in the real 
estate and banking business. He has been President of the Humboldt 
County Bank for twelve years.