California Biographies

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 the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


HENRY BRICKLEY. A fine representative of the native-born sons of Fresno county, and a 
man of ability and integrity, Henry Brickley is a deservedly popular member of the professional, 
business and social circles of the city of Fresno. As one of the rising young lawyers of the place, 
he is building up a good practice and fast winning for himself a prominent and honorable name 
in the legal fraternity. A son of the late John Brickley, he was born June 28, 1876, in Liberty, 
Fresno county, of Irish ancestry. 

John Brickley was born and reared in the city of Cork, Ireland. When a young man he 
immigrated to this country, and settled in Chicago, Ill., where he followed the trade of car- 
penter and builder. Enlisting in an Illinois regiment, he served in the Civil war, and just 
before the surrender of Lee was wounded in the right leg. In 1866, with his wife, he came across 
the plains to California, and for two years or more was a resident of Truckee, Nevada county. 
Coming then to Fresno county, he engaged in general farming and sheep raising for a few 
years. He died in 1879 in Madera county. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah McCor- 
mick, was born in Ireland, and now lives near Fresno. Four children were born of their union, 
three daughters and one son, Henry, the special subject of this sketch, being the third child in 
succession of birth. 

Brought up in Fresno county, Henry Brickley obtained his elementary education in the district 
schools, and was afterward graduated from the Fresno high school. Entering the University 
of California in 1897, he continued there through the sophomore year. The ensuing two years he 
was on the reportorial staff of the Fresno Republican, during which time he studied law. Sep- 
tember 12, 1900, Mr. Brickley was admitted to the bar, and has since been actively engaged in 
the practice of his profession, his office being in the Short building. Mr. Brickley is also inter- 
ested to some extent in agricultural pursuits, owning a ranch of one hundred and twenty acres. 
This ranch, lying about eight miles west of Fresno, near Kearney, is entirely under irrigation, 
and is devoted to the raising of alfalfa, a most prolific and valuable crop. Mr. Brickley is a 
member of the County Bar Association, and a charter member, and ex-president, of Fresno 
Parlor No. 25, N. S. G. W.