Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE J. HOLLENBECK
GEORGE J. HOLLENBECK.--A wide-awake,
experienced and very successful representative of important interests affecting
the Sacramento commercial world is
George J. Hollenbeck, of the firm of Hollenbeck & Rhea, of 1006
Fifth Street, Sacramento. A native son, he was born at Ryer
Island, Solano
County, on April 18, 1876, and his
father was John Hollenbeck, who crossed the great plains in 1854, taking six
months for the trip. After reaching California,
he married Miss Mary Mahoney, and they landed at Courtland, and he has lived
there on a river farm ever since, now aged ninety years. Mrs. Hollenbeck was a
Bostonian, and came to California
with her parents; she is now deceased, having rounded out a useful life. They
had five children
George J.
Hollenbeck went to the public school, and helped his father on the home farm
until he was twenty years of age, and during floods, when the schoolhouse was
surrounded by water, he often went to school by boat. At the time of his leaving home, he embarked
in the operation of a harvester, and for three years threshed for farmers; and
then he engaged in ranching in Sacramento
County. In 1918 he went into
partnership with E. B. Rhea, and now they are busy selling Harris Harvesters in
seven counties, and are unable to supply the demand. He is also interested with R. W. Jones in a
commission enterprise, handling hay, grain, beans and rice. Mr. Hollenbeck owns 800 acres on the Island,
the Holland tract twelve miles south of Sacramento.
In 1906, Mr. Hollenbeck was married to Miss
Rose Smith, of Oregon, and they
are the parents of four children, Doris, Belva, Muriel, and George. Mr. Hollenbeck is a member of Courtland
Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, through which excellent organization
he contributes what he can to the stimulation of interest in California
affairs; he is a Republican.
Transcribed
by Patricia Seabolt.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 530. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.