Sacramento County
Biographies
JESSE A.
HENDREN
JESSE A. HENDREN.--An interesting enterprise, as being one that accomplishes really practical results, is that of Jesse A. Hendren, the popular proprietor of Hendren’s Wrecking Company, at 1220 D Street, Sacramento. He hails from Missouri, and was born at St. Joseph, on July 3, 1873; and his parents were Squire A and Minerva (Wells) Hendren, pioneers who came out to California about 1887 and, despite the alluring attractions of the big boom in Southern California, settled in Sacramento. Squire Hendren became a contractor, and was widely known, until his death about 1913, for his ability to handle successfully anything which he once consented to undertake; he left a widow devoted to his memory and enjoying the esteem of mankind.
Jesse Hendren had a fair training in the lower grades of the public schools, and in time took up contracting with the aid of teams. Then he entered that other, more curious field, the wrecking of all kinds of structures, and he has probably torn down more buildings in Sacramento than anyone else in his line. He is accustomed to look the building over well, formulate his plan, and down comes the affair, and in such an orderly way as to convince the onlooker of a good deal of method in the wrecking business. This success in the work of wrecking is doubtless due in part to Mr. Hendren’s close personal attention to every detail; but his steady application to hard work does not prevent him from getting away occasionally for healthful recreation.
In 1894, Mr. Hendren married Miss Minnie Agnes Cook, a native of New York City, who had the good fortune to be reared here; and their fortunate union was blessed with a gifted daughter, Juanita Mae, who died at the age of seventeen. Mr. Hendren is a deal of a home man; but he gives some attention to politics, generally voting as a man independent of party, and therefore a stranger to partisanship.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 982.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.