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


WILSON, H. H. Was born in Indiana, November 17, 1831. When quite a young man he engaged as an 
apprentice to the blacksmith trade, which he followed in Indiana until the fall of 1852, when he went 
to Iowa. Here he followed the same occupation seven years, and then engaged in farming until the 
spring of 1864, when he crossed the plains to Nevada, where he prosecuted his trade for two years. 
We next find Mr. Wilson in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, where he remained until the fall of 
1867, when he took up his residence in Lower Lake, Lake County, and opened a shop which he 
conducted until 1878, when he leased his establishment and moved upon a farm about one mile west 
from that town, where he at present resides. Mr. Wilson married, August 2, 1855, Miss Mary Henkle, a 
native of Illinois. By this marriage they have five living children Florence V., Laura E., Katie A., Orville H. 
and William W. ; and have lost one, Frank.