Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Henry, Jacob 1818 - 1890
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JACOB HENRY, late a prosperous farmer of Capay Valley, Yolo County, was born
March 13, 1818, in Fairfield, Ohio, a son of John and Elizabeth (Wykerd) Henry,
both natives of Pennsylvania, who moved to Virginia and then to Ohio, where the
father died; the mother died in Michigan. At the age of eight years young Henry
was "bound out" to Samuel Trexell until he was seventeen years of age. He then
went to Wayne County, Indiana, was there two years, and then worked two years
for his brother, John H., in Montgomery County, Ohio, then they moved to Indiana
and continued together two years longer; then Jacob and a younger brother,
Joseph H., went to farming for themselves. Two years afterward they bought 280
acres, which they cultivated together for sixteen years. Jacob then disposed of
his interest and bought 120 acres in Illinois, which he occupied and cultivated
until 1875, when he sold out and came to California. He bought a place in Capay
Valley, which now contains seventy-six acres and constitutes a pretty little home.

  He was married in Michigan, April 26,1849, to Miss Caroline Conradt, a native
of Germany, and they have eight children, namely: Emeline, born August 3, 1850,
now the wife of H. H. Smith; George W., born August 30, 1852; Mary, born
February 21, 1857, and now the wife of J. C. Duncan; Andrew J., born March 12,
1854; Schuyler C, born June 7, 1859; William A., September 30, 1868; Ira M.,
April 1, 1870; Alma V., born October 13, 1862, is now Mrs. R. B. Cranston. Mr.
Henry died in 1890.


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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