JOHN HENDRICKSON, 1863-??

HENDRICKSON

Posted By: Bahnson
Date: 4/24/2002 at 18:28:43

JOHN HENDRICKSON.
John Hendrickson came to Inwood, Lyon county, in 1889, and purchased a blacksmith and wagon shop, and began a business which under the spur of his fine workmanship and close attention has assumed large proportions. At the present time he is carrying about $5,000 in stock and in the outfit. His shop is regarded as one of the most complete in Lyon county, and his home which he also owns is a fine and commodious dwelling house of nine rooms, only about a block from the shop.
Mr. Hendrickson was born in Norway in 1863, where he served an apprenticeship of three years at this trade, and where he was afterward employed as a journeyman until his coming to this country in 1885. He arrived in New York in the spring of that year, and there found such employment as he could until his coming to Inwood. Here he had but eighteen dollars with which to begin a career that has proved remarkably successful. His confidence in his own ability to command success was strong, and he ran heavily into debt at the outset, but his course was justified by the outcome, and it was not long before he had paid back all he owed, and was free from debt.

PG. 499, "COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY OF LYON COUNTY, IOWA", Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. GEO. MONLUN, Pres.; HON. E. C. ROACH, Sec’y; and COL. F. M. THOMPSON, Historian. GEO. A. OGLE & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. CHICAGO, 1904-1905.