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 JOSIAH E. WOOLDRIDGE.� Those who were acquainted with the late John M. Wooldridge would expect to find his eldest son, the one who in earlier days shouldered much of the work and responsibilities at the old home- stead, as painstakingly industrious, energetically aggressive and thoroughly capable as was the older man himself, and therefore there would be no dis- appointment in visiting the well-kept fruit and grain farm of this now pros- perous farmer of the Big valley, nor would there be any lessening of interest in an inspection of the carefully pruned trees of pears and apples. The whole bears tribute to the care and cult