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


JOSEPH HENRY.  The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Wayne 
County, Ohio, August 15, 1827. He remained at his birthplace until he was eleven years of age, when 
his parents moved to Iowa, and settled in Cedar County, where he resided until 1849. In May of that 
year he came across the plains to California, arriving in the State in the following October. He at once 
began mining which he followed for two years. In March, 1851, he returned to Iowa, where he 
remained for nearly two years. In 1853 he again crossed the plains and immediately came to and 
settled in Napa County, and in 1862 began the stock business near Napa City, and the butcher business 
in that place, which he continued till 1879. In that year he was elected to the position of County 
Treasurer, which office he still fills with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the people. 
He had previously served for four years on the Board of City Trustees. He was married December 30, 
1851, to Cynthia Lewis a native of Ohio, born January 30, 1832. Their children are John M., Stephen A., 
Joseph HI, Cornelius E., Rosa M. and Clarence.