Sacramento County
Biographies
OSCAR J.
HENLEY
OSCAR J. HENLEY.--An experienced contractor in brick-work who has been able to advance building conditions in and around Sacramento, is Oscar J. Henley, of the well-known firm of O. A. Henley & Son, of 1408 V Street, Sacramento, in which city he was born, on November 29, of the Centennial Year of 1876. His father, Oscar A. Henley, crossed the great plains as an Argonaut in 1849, and located at Sacramento, coming all the way from St. Louis, where he was born. He was only three years old when accompanying his parents, who were among the real early pioneers of the capital; and Oscar A. Henley attended the local schools, and then learned brick-laying, which he followed until of late; for he is still active at the age of seventy-six. Mrs. Henley, however, who was Mary Ellen Foley before her marriage, and shared with her husband the devotion of a large circle of admiring friends, is deceased. Grandfather Arch was a judge.
Oscar J. Henley had something of the popular schooling, and then learned the brick-laying trade from his father, now the oldest brick contractor in Sacramento, with whom, since 1910, he has been a partner, in brick-contracting, helping to build the D. O. Mills Bank building, the Skelton undertaking parlors, and much residential work, and they built a large number of the old business houses in Sacramento. He belongs to the Builders’ Exchange, and to the Owls; and in politics he is a Republican.
On June 26, 1904, Oscar Henley was united in marriage with Miss Nora Belle Partlow, of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Henley enjoy an enviable popularity.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 951.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.