Sylvester C. Hendricks
For a period of more than fifty-five years the Hendricks family have been known and respected through their citizenship and industry in Grant County. As farmers and merchants they have always made their own way, and prospered, while in the communities in which their lives have been passed they have never failed to hold up their share of civic and social responsibilities and obligations. Mr. Sylvester C. Hendricks has long been prominent as a farmer, fruit grower and merchant at Fox Station in Pleasant Township, where he and his son operate the principal mercantile establishment in that vicinity, and are large property owners.
Sylvester C. Hendricks is a native of Pleasant Township in Grant County where he was born January 13, 1859. His parents were William E. and Matilda (Sigler) Hendricks, who came from Warren County, Indiana, to Grant County, in 1857. Both parents are now deceased. The father was a man who started his career without wealth or influence, but at the end of his active labors possessed three hundred acres of land. He was a Republican voter, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. There were four children, all living in 1913, Sylvester C., being the oldest. Grant is a farmer in Pleasant Township; Laura is unmarried, and Annie is the wife of James Dove of Pleasant Township.
Sylvester C. Henderson spent his boyhood on the old homestead in Pleasant Township, and when his presence was not required by home duties he attended the common schools with sufficient regularity to give him a fair equipment in book learning. When he was twenty-one he started out for himself, and from year to year has been getting ahead. Early in his career he married Agnes Holman, a daughter of William Holman. They are the parents of one son, William C. Hendricks, Jr., who was born August 6, 1882. After getting a common school training he was a student in the Marion High school, and has for a number of years been associated with his father in farming and mercantile enterprise. He was married to Hallie Druckemiller. They have two children: Agnes L., born in 1910, and Catherine, born June 3, 1913. In 1911 Mr. S. C. Hendricks and son formed a partnership, the title of which is S. C. Hendricks & Son, and under this name they operate a general store, and handle coal, grain and hay at Fox Station. A farm of twenty-three and a half acres at Fox Station is also included within the partnership enterprise. In politic the son has taken a stand in the Republican interests while the father has for many years staunchly supported the Democracy. The junior Mr. Hendricks is a member of the Methodist Church in Marion. The father and son have a very productive fruit farm at Fox Station, besides other fruits, raising considerable quantities of cherries, and also some strawberries.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.