Colusa County Biographies

WILLIAM G. HENNECKE

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            This prosperous farmer resides ten miles south of Smithville.  He 
was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1843, and there received a good common-school 
education, as well as instruction in instrumental music, for which he had early 
exhibited a cultivated taste.  Mr. Hennecke came to America in 1857, locating at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, where, becoming proficient in music, he was employed in a 
band.  Almost at the beginning of the war, Mr. Hennecke showed his devotion to 
the land of his adoption by enlisting, in 1862, in the Second Artillery, United 
States Army, where he served three years, receiving an honorable discharge.  In 
1882 he located in his present home in Colusa County, where he cultivates and 
raises stock on one thousand five hundred and eighty acres of choice land.  The 
cultivation of fruit finds in him a warm advocate, and his orchard of various 
fruits shows how profitable that industry can be made on these rich, rolling 
lands.  Mr. Hennecke is married and the father of five children.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 456