San Diego County Biographies
 
E. W. HENDRICK

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attorney at law. San Diego, was born at Bowling Green, Pike County, Missouri, 
March 6, 1847.  His father was formerly a merchant, but in later life took to 
farming, and purchased about 400 acres in Pike County. The subject of this 
sketch remained at home until fourteen years of age, attending the common 
schools.  He then started for the west, first driving a horse team to Denver, 
then an ox-team to Oregon, and later on to California, where he passed one year 
at the Napa College Institute. Returning in 1864 to the east, he attended 
Brown's University at Providence, Rhode Island, and after seven years of study 
graduated in 1871; he then went to Europe and spent fourteen months in travel 
and study, visiting the principal cities and countries. On his return he again 
came to California, and entered the law office of Daingerfield & Olney, 
prominent attorneys of San Francisco, and after eighteen months of study he was 
admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Sacramento in April, 1874.  He then 
visited San Diego, and having great faith in the future of the town decided to 
establish here his permanent residence, and immediately opened an office and 
began the practice of general law. In 1880 he was elected to the Legislature, 
and was recognized as one of the most able speakers in the House. In 1884 he was 
elected District Attorney of San Diego.
        He was one of the original stockholders and promoters of the San Diego 
Iron and Nail Manufactory, and is now president of the Loma Manufacturing 
Company at Roseville. He was one of the founders of the public library, which 
was established in 1881, and is still one of the trustees. He is, in fact, an 
active, enterprising promotor of San Diego's interests.
 
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.-  127