Mendocino County Biographies

Dryden Lacock

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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	Was born in Pennsylvania, June 17, 1823. In 1846 he went to 
Wisconsin, and in 1848 he moved to Iowa, and in 1850 he crossed the plains to 
California, arriving August 11th of that year. He followed mining at different 
places for five years. He then went to Tehama county, where he spent four years, 
being an Indian agent there in 1856. He then came to Mendocino county and 
settled in Round valley, where he was in the employ of the Government, doing all 
the mason work on the reservation till 1859. He then settled on a ranch, since 
which time he has been engaged in stock-raising and wool-growing. In the summer 
of 1880 he settled on his present place, on the road from Ukiah to Round valley. 
He married, June 14, 1863, Miss M. A. Porter, a native of Tennessee.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp.  583