Yolo County Biographies


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JACOB HENRY
 
Jacob Henry, late a prosperous farmer of Capay Valley, Yolo County, was born 
March 13, 1818, in Fairfield, Ohio, a son of John and Elizabeth (Wykerd) Henry, 
both natives of Pennsylvania, who moved to Virginia and then to Ohio, where the 
father died; the mother died in Michigan. At the age of eight years young Henry 
was �bound out� to Samuel Trexell until he was seventeen years of age. He then 
went to Wayne County, Indiana, was there two years, and then worked two years 
for his brother, John H., in Montgomery County, Ohio, then they moved to Indiana 
and continued together two years longer; then Jacob and a younger brother, 
Joseph H., went to farming for themselves. Two years afterward they bought 280 
acres, which they cultivated together for sixteen years. Jacob then disposed of 
his interest and bought 120 acres in Illinois, which he occupied and cultivated 
until 1875, when he sold out and came to California. He bought a place in Capay 
Valley, which now contains seventy-six acres and constitutes a pretty little 
home.
       He was married in Michigan, April 26,1849, To Miss Caroline Conradt, a 
native of Germany, and they have eight children, namely: Emeline, born August 3, 
1850, now the wife of H. H. Smith; George W., born August 30, 1852; Mary, born 
February 21, 1857, and now the wife of J. C. Duncan; Andrew J., born March 12, 
1854; Schuyler C., born June 7, 1859; William A., September 30, 1868; Ira M., 
April 1, 1870; Alma V., born October 13, 1862, is now Mrs. R. B. Cranston. Mr. 
Henry died in 1890.     
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 636
Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan