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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
574 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
daughter, Annie, widow of E. D. Silsby, resides
in San Francisco. Two of the Doctor’s brothers
died at Chico, one from pneumonia contracted
by exposure while going to visit a patient, and
the other of heart disease in San Francisco.
Dr. Henderson is the youngest of the family.
He attended the public schools of Chico, after
which he was a student at the University of
Pennsylvania for two years. Graduating in
1880, he returned to Chico, and has since been
identified with the medical profession of this
city. He has treated many of the old and
prominent citizens of Butte County, his practice extending for thirty miles into the country.
He chose for his wife Miss Belle Sullinger, a
native of Missouri, and their union was blessed
with one child, Rubie, born in Chico.
1890, Mrs. Henderson died of that relentless
disease, consumption.
her untimely death is a source of much sorrow
to her many friends. The Doctor resides in the
home his father purchased in Chico twenty-one
years ago. Personally, he is quiet and unassuming, generous and public-spirited, and is
held in high esteem by all who know him.
OHN W. HEDGE is one of the progressive and enterprising young farmers of
June 6, .
She was a devoted wife .
and mother and a most estimable woman, and .
. genius.
Butte County, and is well worthy of men.
tion in this connection. He was born in Yuba
County, California, in 1856, and is a son of
George and Elizabeth (Kimball) Hedge, natives
of the State of Ohio. They emigrated to California in early days, and are now residing on a
portion of the farm owned by our subject.
Young Hedge remained in the county of his .
birth until 1872; there he received ‘his education in the common schools, and the training in
agricultural pursuits which is sure to win him .
success. lt was not until 1887 that he purchased his ranch which lies in the foot-hills of
Butts County; there he has ninety-six acres of .
as choice land as can be tuund within the bor_ in farming and also worked at his trade.
ders of the county, and 1892 will see it well set
to all varieties of fruit that can be raised in this
climate.
Our esteemed subject was united in wedlock,
in Butte County, in 1884, to Miss Martha Eckert, and of this marriage two children have been
_ born: Frank S. and John W. Believing heartily in the fellowship of man, and that “in union
there is strength,” Mr. Hedge has connected
himself with two of the leading fraternities of
the county; he belongs to Magalia Lodge, No.
144, K. P., and to the Chosen Friends lodge,
No. 200.
ACOB LONGFELLOW is one of the pioneers of California, who came around the
Horn to this State in 1850. He left
Maine, his native State, in November, 1849,
and arrived in San Francisco, April 5. Gold,
that powerful magnet that drew so many to
. California that year from peaceful homes in the
East, was the great incentive that brought him
to this coast.
Mr. Longfellow’s ancestors on both sides were
old Atmerican families, they having resided on
. this side of the Atlantic Ocean since long before
the Revolution. He thinks the poet isa distant
relative of his, but he modestly claims no poetic
: His parents were Daniel and Rowena
(Haskell) Longfellow, both natives of the Pine
Tree State. They had eight children, of whom,
as faras he knows, five are living. He was
born in the city of Machias, Maine, August 1,
1821, and was educated in his native place,
finishing his studies at the academy. He
learned the blacksmith trade with his father,
and after his father’s death he carried on the
business in their shop alone for six years.
Upon his arrival in this State he engaged in
mining on Feather River and at other places,
meeting with fair success. Bving told that the
waters would be high, he left the mines and
went to the San Jose Valley, where he engaged
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