California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm



HENDRICKS, J. D. Was born in Henry County, Tennessee, April 24, 1833. In October, 1855, he went to 
Missouri, where the winter was spent, and in the spring of 1856 started across the plains for California. 
In September of the above year, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, was reached. Here he spent two years 
at different occupations, and then went to Oregon, where farming was prosecuted for eight years. In 
December, 1866, he returned to California, and settled on his present place, consisting of six hundred 
and forty-seven acres, located about one mile south of Lower Lake, in Lake County. Here he is 
engaged in farming and wool growing. Mr. Hendricks married, October 21, 1857, Miss Mary F. Dillard, a 
native of Missouri. Their children are, Charles E., born July 26, 1858 ; Frank, born October 4, 1860; 
Addie, born January 9, 1863; Vina, born November 24, 1864; John, born May 1, 1870; Flora, born March 
3, 1875; and Grace, born April 9, 1880.