Yuba County
Biographies
HENRY J. KLENZENDORF
A man of strong individuality, noted for his good citizenship and many fine traits of character, Henry J. Klenzendorf holds a position among those energetic and enterprising men who came to California at an early age, and through their own honest and earnest endeavors accumulated a competency. For sixty years he has been a resident of Yuba County, and for the past twenty-five years has been manager of the lumber-yard for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company at their tramway at the head of Bullard’s Bar dam. He was born on the river Elb, eighteen miles above Hamburg, in Hanover, Germany, March 23, 1847, the eldest of three children, and the only one surviving, in the family of John and Dora Klenzendorf, both natives of Germany. Henry Klenzendorf, an uncle of our subject, arrived at Bullard’s Bar, Cal., in 1856 and engaged in mining in 1861, John Klenzendorf, the father, came to California and mined for two years, after which he returned to Germany and brought his wife and son, Henry J., to California, in 1863. John Klenzendorf passed away in October, 1864, at Bullard’s Bar; and in 1896 his wife passed away at Orangevale.
Henry J. Klenzendorf attended school in Hanover, Germany, until he was fifteen years of age, when he came with his parents to California. He began working as a farm boy, and then went to logging, spending fifteen seasons with the Union Mills Company in the mills in Yuba and Butte Counties, covering a period of twenty years. In 1883, Mr. Klenzendorf filed on a homestead of 150 acres of land in Yuba County. The work-camp of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company adjoins his ranch, and Mr. Klenzendorf did the first day’s work on their tramway at their lumber-yard.
The marriage of Mr. Klenzendorf, at the Kessler ranch, united him with Miss Lillie Kessler, born in Yuba County, the eldest of the four children of Peter and Julia Anne (Dennis) Kessler, both natives of Pennsylvania. Peter Kessler was a pioneer rancher and miner of Yuba County. Mr. and Mrs. Klenzendorf are the parents of three children: Charles, deceased; Peter, who married Pearl Strandberg, now deceased, and has one son; and Vernon Frank, assistant to his father at the tramway. Mr. Klenzendorf is a stockholder in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. He has served four years as a school trustee of Greenville District. Politically, he is a Republican.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 555
CAPT. C. T. BRADLEY
After a military record seldom equaled for length of service so early in life, Capt. C. T. Bradley has settled down to business life in Marysville, specializing in real-estate operations, which, together with his horticultural interests, have made him a constructive factor in the growth and advancement of Yuba County, while still on the reserve list of officers in the United States Army. Born in Jacksonport, Wis., on August 26, 1882, he was educated at Chicago, Ill, graduating from the high school in that city.
Entering upon his military career at the age of eighteen, he is now a veteran of three wars. From 1901 to 1903, he saw service as a member of the 12th U. S. Cavalry in the Philippine Insurrection. In 1904, returning to civilian life, he engaged in the real-estate business in Los Angeles as sales manager for Abbott Kinney, and was associated in the development of Venice, at which resort his father, D. A. Bradley, built the first Ship Café, the noted dining place of the pleasure resort. In 1912, the young soldier of fortune went to Central America as manager of a coffee plantation; and on returning to California, he again engaged in the real-estate business at Red Bluff, Tehama County. The year 1916 saw him again in the army, as sergeant in the 2nd California Infantry during the trouble with Mexico, stationed at Nogales, Ariz. From March, 1917, to August, 1919, he participated in the World War, with the rank of second lieutenant of the 160th Infantry, 40th Division, training at Camp Kearney, and went over seas with that division. He saw service in the Argonne, in charge of replacement troops taken to the front, advancing to the rank of captain of his regiment. Returning to the United States in August, he went to Camp Kearney and for three months was attached to the 32nd Infantry; he now retains his military rank on the reserve list.
On leaving the service in 1919, Captain Bradley entered the real-estate business in Marysville, also maintaining an office in Yuba City. Among his other interests he is the owner of a thirty-lot subdivision near Ellis Lake, within the city limits of Marysville, and has in Yuba County a ten-acre fruit ranch which is being developed to a high state of productiveness.
The marriage of Captain Bradley, occurring at Los Angeles in 1904, united him with Minnie A. Harkey, a native of Illinois, but reared and educated in Yuba City. Fraternally, Mr. Bradley is a member of the Red Bluff Lodge, No. 156, I.O.O.F., and Corinthian Lodge, No. 9, F. & A.M., Marysville, and is Commander of Yuba-Sutter Post, No. 42, of the American Legion.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 555-556