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Henry L. Gillaspie. The subject of this sketch was born in Amherst county, Virginia. After receiving a sufficient
education, he began teaching school, which he followed until he was twenty eight years of age. He then turned his
attention to law, and began practicing at the age of thirty, in connection with which he conducted the farming
business also. This was continued for about ten years, when he quit farming, and paid his entire attention to law,
until the breaking out of the war. He spent the years of the war in Georgia and elsewhere, and at the close of
it he returned to West Virginia. He was shortly afterwards appointed Circuit Judge by the Legislature, and at the
expiration of the term he was elected by the people, to fill the same office. Before the term of office had expired
a new constitution was adopted, which beheaded him officially. He then came to California, and began practicing
law, and in June, 1879, located at Ukiah, Mendocino county, August 9, 1849. He was married in Franklin county,
Virginia, to Miss Letitia M. Menefee, a native of that State.
From:
History of Mendocino County, California
Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1880
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