Short Biography of Claude J. Hendricks

Claude J. Hendricks is a promising young lawyer of Janesville, where he has been practicing during the greater part of the last decade. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1898, and continued to practice here until June 1, 1900. He then engaged in business with the West Publishing Company, of St. Paul, Minn., acting as associate editor. He remained in this position about four years until January 1, 1904, when he again opened his law office in Janesville, where he still remains.

Mr. Hendricks was born February 18, 1875, in the town of Porter, this county, where he obtained his primary education in the district schools; he afterward attended the Evansville Seminary for a time, supplementing that with a course in the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the son of John W. and Ellen (Montgomery) Hendricks.

Source: "Rock County, Wisconsin: A new History of its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up To Date" ¹²³⁰⁶