This was the eldest child of Levi and Mary (Spotts) Henrickson. He moved out to Orange County from Iowa in 1909 and bought a gas station in what is now Garden Grove. He died in a drowning accident in the Hemet River, as he was getting ready to move back to the Midwest.
Article from the Santa Ana Register dated 2 Mar 1912 that reads: The body of A.B. Henrickson, the Santa Ana automobile man who was drowned in Lake Hemet near Hemet on 29 Feb 1912, has not bbeen recovered according to the information received at the home of L.P. Henrickson, father of the drowned man, at 622 French Street. The father and brother Edson, and George L. Bates, who was Henrickson's partner, are still at Lake Hemet searching for the body. Every effort has been put forth by them and by others along the lake, but as yet their efforts have been unsuccessful. Bates telephoned to his home here last night, saying that the search would be continued today. The testimony of Percy Walker was as follows 'I was on the island near the middle of Lake Hemet, being taken there in a canoe by Henrickson. On the way over he told me the oar had slipped when he was going at full speed and the canoe had nearly turned over. I told him he wasn't experienced enough to run the canoe and said he had better let me take him back, but he refused. The canoe belonged to Mr. Dunham of San Jacinto, and was more unstable than the average canvas canoe. Henrickson left me at the island and continued up the lake. About fifteen minutes after he left me he was in the middle of the wildest part of the lake. Mr. Henrickson made a pass with his oar to kill a duck when the canoe was overturned. When I saw the canoe shoot up in the air Henrickson was about a half a mile from me. I shot my gun off several times and yelled, "man overboard." "
Article from the Santa Ana Register dated 2 Mar 1912 that reads: The body of A.B. Henrickson, the Santa Ana automobile man who was drowned in Lake Hemet near Hemet on 29 Feb 1912, has not bbeen recovered according to the information received at the home of L.P. Henrickson, father of the drowned man, at 622 French Street. The father and brother Edson, and George L. Bates, who was Henrickson's partner, are still at Lake Hemet searching for the body. Every effort has been put forth by them and by others along the lake, but as yet their efforts have been unsuccessful. Bates telephoned to his home here last night, saying that the search would be continued today. The testimony of Percy Walker was as follows 'I was on the island near the middle of Lake Hemet, being taken there in a canoe by Henrickson. On the way over he told me the oar had slipped when he was going at full speed and the canoe had nearly turned over. I told him he wasn't experienced enough to run the canoe and said he had better let me take him back, but he refused. The canoe belonged to Mr. Dunham of San Jacinto, and was more unstable than the average canvas canoe. Henrickson left me at the island and continued up the lake. About fifteen minutes after he left me he was in the middle of the wildest part of the lake. Mr. Henrickson made a pass with his oar to kill a duck when the canoe was overturned. When I saw the canoe shoot up in the air Henrickson was about a half a mile from me. I shot my gun off several times and yelled, "man overboard." "
This was the eldest child of Levi and Mary (Spotts) Henrickson. He moved out to Orange County from Iowa in 1909 and bought a gas station in what is now Garden Grove. He died in a drowning accident in the Hemet River, as he was getting ready to move back to the Midwest.
Article from the Santa Ana Register dated 2 Mar 1912 that reads: The body of A.B. Henrickson, the Santa Ana automobile man who was drowned in Lake Hemet near Hemet on 29 Feb 1912, has not bbeen recovered according to the information received at the home of L.P. Henrickson, father of the drowned man, at 622 French Street. The father and brother Edson, and George L. Bates, who was Henrickson's partner, are still at Lake Hemet searching for the body. Every effort has been put forth by them and by others along the lake, but as yet their efforts have been unsuccessful. Bates telephoned to his home here last night, saying that the search would be continued today. The testimony of Percy Walker was as follows 'I was on the island near the middle of Lake Hemet, being taken there in a canoe by Henrickson. On the way over he told me the oar had slipped when he was going at full speed and the canoe had nearly turned over. I told him he wasn't experienced enough to run the canoe and said he had better let me take him back, but he refused. The canoe belonged to Mr. Dunham of San Jacinto, and was more unstable than the average canvas canoe. Henrickson left me at the island and continued up the lake. About fifteen minutes after he left me he was in the middle of the wildest part of the lake. Mr. Henrickson made a pass with his oar to kill a duck when the canoe was overturned. When I saw the canoe shoot up in the air Henrickson was about a half a mile from me. I shot my gun off several times and yelled, "man overboard." "
Article from the Santa Ana Register dated 2 Mar 1912 that reads: The body of A.B. Henrickson, the Santa Ana automobile man who was drowned in Lake Hemet near Hemet on 29 Feb 1912, has not bbeen recovered according to the information received at the home of L.P. Henrickson, father of the drowned man, at 622 French Street. The father and brother Edson, and George L. Bates, who was Henrickson's partner, are still at Lake Hemet searching for the body. Every effort has been put forth by them and by others along the lake, but as yet their efforts have been unsuccessful. Bates telephoned to his home here last night, saying that the search would be continued today. The testimony of Percy Walker was as follows 'I was on the island near the middle of Lake Hemet, being taken there in a canoe by Henrickson. On the way over he told me the oar had slipped when he was going at full speed and the canoe had nearly turned over. I told him he wasn't experienced enough to run the canoe and said he had better let me take him back, but he refused. The canoe belonged to Mr. Dunham of San Jacinto, and was more unstable than the average canvas canoe. Henrickson left me at the island and continued up the lake. About fifteen minutes after he left me he was in the middle of the wildest part of the lake. Mr. Henrickson made a pass with his oar to kill a duck when the canoe was overturned. When I saw the canoe shoot up in the air Henrickson was about a half a mile from me. I shot my gun off several times and yelled, "man overboard." "
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