Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Hemenway, George W. 1842 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

GEORGE W. HEMENWAY, Postmaster at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of Henry B. and
Eunice (Guild) Hemenway, the former, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1813,
and died March 17, 1875; the latter, born in 1815, in Vermont, is still living
in Wheaton, Illinois. George was born at Wayne, Illinois, thirty miles west of
Chicago, June 17, 1842; graduated at the Commercial College at Wheaton, learned
the trade of printer, and from the age of twenty seven years to about thirty-six
years he was a book-keeper in Chicago. In 1877 he moved to Lyon County, Kansas,
and purchased a farm of 240 acres, which he improved until 1887, when he came
direct to his present place of residence. On coming to California, he did not
dispose of his Kansas farm, lest he might wish to return to it; but he is more
than pleased with the Golden State, and his intention is to remain at Winters,
where he has purchased a line home and two stores occupied by A. Hazelrigg. He
is at present Postmaster of the village, and ere this sketch is printed he will
have established also a stationery store.

  In 1869, in Chicago, he was united in matrimony with Anna P. Filer, a native
of Illinois, and they have live children: Walter, born in 1871; Ella, 1873;
Fred, 1875; Harvey, 1879; Jessie, 1887.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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