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 
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HERNDON, N. This old and respected pioneer of Lake County was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, 
September 15, 1809. He resided on a farm until nineteen years of age, when he engaged as apprentice 
to the cabinet trade. In the fall of 1833 he went to Texas, and in the spring of 1834 went to Missouri, 
where farming was followed until 1856. In that year he crossed the plains to California, and arrived in 
Lake County in October. He settled near where Lower Lake now stands and engaged in farming and 
stock raising. In 1877 he moved upon his present place, consisting of about nine hundred acres, 
located about five miles east from Lower Lake, where he is engaged in wool growing. He also owns his 
original place near Lower Lake, consisting of three hundred acres. Mr. Herndon married, July 4, 1831, 
Miss Caroline Sweeney, who died September 20, 1840, leaving five children : Lafayette, Frank, "Mary, 
William and Patsey A.