Mendocino County Biographies

N. E. Hoak

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Franklin county, Maine, December 8, 1833. When he was 
still quite young his parents moved to Penobscot county, that State, and there 
resided for ten years. He remained with his parents on a farm until he was 
seventeen years of age, receiving in the meantime a common school education. At 
that age he sailed before the mast, and followed the sea until he came to 
California in 1859, arriving in October of that year. He came at once to 
Mendocino county, and engaged with Stickney & Coombs, who were then logging for 
Macpherson & Weatherbee, and remained with them for three years. In 1862 he took 
up the claim on which he now resides, in company with J. B. Rice, and in 1873 he 
purchased Rice�s interest. He now owns three hundred and twenty acres. He has 
held the positions of Road-master and School Trustee, and the post-office at 
Comptche was established July 24, 1879, with Mr. Hoak as postmaster. October 24, 
1870, he was married to Miss Lizzie Hatch, a native of Maine, born May 27, 1839. 
Their children are: Lottie May, born October 24, 1874; Alice, born June 14, 
1877; and Carrie Emma, born May 22, 1879.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 540, 541