Lassen County Biographies

Hon. J. W. Hendrick

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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The superior judge of Lassen county was born at Bowling Green, Pike county, 
Missouri, November 4, 1851. When eleven years of age, he accompanied his mother 
to California, settling in Napa. He attended school at Oakland until 1866, when 
he went to Providence, R. I., and entered Brown University, from which he 
graduated with honor in 1872. He then returned to this state, and commenced the 
study of law with Messrs. Daingerfield & Olney of San Francisco. In 1873 he 
removed to Lassen county, and continued his studies in the office of Judge John 
S. Chapman, until 1875, when he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court at 
Sacramento. He then began the practice of his profession in Susanville, and has 
continued it successfully to the present time. In 1877 he received the 
republican nomination for district attorney, and was elected. He gave general 
satisfaction with the manner in which he conducted the office, and in 1879 was 
elected superior judge of the county. He has been on the bench two years, and by 
prompt, terse, and logical decisions, has won the respect of the bar and the 
confidence of the people. January 1, 1879, he married Miss Annie H., daughter of 
Hon. John S. Ward. They have two children: Jennie E., born October 25, 1879, and 
Mary E., August 7, 1881.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 377