California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 ANDREW JACKSON HURT.� There are many representatives of the Hurt family resident now in Lake and Mendocino counties, and though An- drew Jackson Hurt is a man in his prime he has had a part in the develop- ment of his section of Lake county from its pioneer days, for he was born there and in his boyhood had many of the experiences typical of primitive con- ditions. His home place of twenty acres is near Upper Lake, and besides that property he owns an interest in twenty-two acres belonging to the Thomp- son estate three quarters of a mile from Upper Lake which the family leases. William Henry Hurt, the father of .Andrew Jackson Hurt, was a native of Tennessee, born ten miles from Nashville, and his marriage, to Marv J. Ogan. took place in Missouri. Thence they came overland to California in 1852, trav- eling with ox teams, and first made a settlement on the San Joaquin. They attempted to raise a crop of wheat, but the hot winds destroyed it, and in 1854 they changed their location to Lake county, making their home three miles from Lakeport, in what is now Scotts valley. Being among the earliest settlers in the region, Mr. Hurt had many an adventure hunting, of which he was. very fond, killing man}' elk and deer, trapping and shooting grizzly bears, and similar sport. On one of his hunts, in company with his brother "Jack." William Schutter and his son Andrew J. Hurt (then a boy of thirteen), he had the honor of killing one of the largest grizzlies ever obtained in Lake county, an enormous animal as large as a horse, weighing eighteen hundred pounds, and fat as a huge hog. William Henry Hurt died in 1912, when about eighty- one years old, and his widow, now seventy-eight years old, lives at Covelo, in Mendocino county ; she is well preserved and in excellent health. They had a family of sixteen children � one of the largest ever reared in the county ; Charles Henry, a farmer, who lives at Covelo, Mendocino county ; Elizabeth, who died in Colusa county, Cal. ; William Irwin, a farmer, living in Redwood valley, Mendocino county : James, a blacksmith, of Covelo ; Andrew Jackson ; Malissa, who is married and lives in Covelo ; Parthenia, also married and living in Round valley ; Beauregard and Levy, both farmers and stock-raisers of Round valley ; Annie, Wayne and John, who are deceased ; .Ada and Ida, twins, the former living near Chico, Cal., the latter in Round valley, Mendo- cino county ; and two who died very young. Andrew Jackson Hurt was born July 4, 1857, and was reared in Lake county, receiving common school advantages in the home locality. At Upper Lake he learned the trade of blacksmith and then went to Lakeport. where he followed it for two years in the employ of a Scotchman by the name of Ross. Returning to Upper Lake, it was there he met Miss Minnie Rose Thompson, who was born in Contra Costa county, Cal., the daughter of fudge David V. Thompson, one of the pioneers of this region. They were married October 29. 1882, and have one child, Myrtle Irene, who is now the wife of Fred Rupe, shipping clerk for the Irvine & Muir Lumber Company of Fort Bragg. D. V. Thompson was born in Tennessee and later lived in Missouri, where he taught school. In 1849 he crossed the plains to Cali- fornia and in Solano county he married Martha C. Powell, a native of Ten- nessee, who had crossed the plains with her sister. Air. Thompson was also one of the early settlers of Upper Lake, which he served as justice of the peace and notary public for thirty years. For some time he was also supervisor of the county. He was an honored and respected citizen, and his death, Feb- ruary 22, 190L was an occasion of general mourning in the community which had benefited so materially from his citizenship. He was buried with Ma- sonic honors. His wife died April 24, 1911. Of their four children only two are living, Bettie, Mrs. William Lewis, of Willits, and Minnie, Mrs. A. J. Hurt. The two sons are deceased, William L., who died February 14, 1894, in Oakland, and James L., who died in Coquille, Ore., March 13, 1913. After their marriage Mr. and Airs. Hurt made their home in Alameda. Cal., for about eleven years, he being in business there, after which for one year he was engaged in mining, helping to develop the Horseshoe mine in Trinity county, a copper proposition. For some time he was employed run- ning a hoist for Davy at the old Guadalupe quicksilver mine, eight miles south of San Jose, and also helped John Stubbs to put in a water system on that mining property. However, most of his life has been passed in Lake county, and he bought his twenty-acre place near Upper Lake from his father-in-law, Judge Thompson. His success in cultivating his land has placed him among the capable farmers of his section, and personally he is regarded as one of its most estimable citizens. He served as constable for many years, and both as an official and public-spirited resident of Lake county has endeavored to do his duty to promote and advance her best interests. In politics he unites with the Democratic party.