"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 488.
 
HON. T. G. HENDRICKS
     This gentleman is one of the best known and justly popular men in Lane
county.  He was born in Henderson county, Illinois, June 17, 1838, and there
remained until his father, James M. Hendricks, crossed the plains to Oregon in
1848, to join his father-in-law, Elijah Bristow, at Pleasant Hill.  Being but
ten years of age on his arrival our subject remained on the farm until he
started life on his own account.  In 1858, he was clerk, for E. L. Bristow, and
in 1860 was admitted to a partnership, when the firm became Bristow & Co., whose
name was, and still is, a household word for all that is honorable in mercantile
affairs.  To the enterprise of this firm is Eugene City indebted for its first
brick building erected in 1866.  Owing to the disposal of the interest of E. L.
Bristow in the business in 1874, and the death of W. W. Bristow, Mr. Hendricks
became sole owner, but in 1884 he sold out to Messrs. Matlock, and on January
first of that year opened the bank in connection with Stewart B. Eakin, situated
on Willamette street.  Married firstly, Miss Mary Hazleton, by whom he has one
surviving daughter; and secondly, Miss Martha A. Stewart, and has two children
living.  The official positions held by Mr. Hendricks have been many, and in all
of them he has displayed an amount of zeal and aptitude that place him in the
lead of honest officials.  Privately and publicly, at home and abroad, he has
hosts of friends who admire him with a sincerity born of upright principles,
while as a business man he brings a perspicuity to bear upon all subjects which
for the most part results in soundness of judgment fraught of logical
intelligence.
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.