Mendocino County Biographies

Henry Willard

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Ostego county, New York, in 1828. When about thirteen 
years of age, he left his parents and went to Norwich, Chenango county, where he 
remained until nineteen years of age, when he joined Stevenson�s regiment and 
rounded Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco in the spring of 1847. The regiment 
was stationed at San Francisco until July, 1848, when Mr. Willard went to the 
mines, in Placer county, at the first discovery of gold. Here he remained one 
year. He then returned to San Francisco and went from there to Marin county, 
where ht took charge of Corte Madera del Presidio ranch, for the widow of John 
Reed, for about seven months. We next find him engaged in the wood business at 
the Novato ranch until 1856, when he came to Mendocino county and located about 
three miles below Ukiah, where he remained one year. He then settled on his 
present place, consisting of seventeen hundred and ninety acres, located in 
Sanel valley, about two miles east from Hopland, where he has since resided, 
being engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Willard married in 1856 Miss 
Mary Maxima. By this union they have ten living children.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp.  617