H.R. Dakin presides as president of the Santa Cruz County Fair
When the family moved to Santa Cruz, George Schell, a Knights Ferry lawyer who had helped frame the recent California constitution, asked his mother and father if Henry could come to work in his office. Henry said "he (Schell) would make me his partner almost immediately, but according to my rule I couldn't leave the farm."
"At 21 I registered as a horticulturalist." He was elected director of the Santa Cruz Fruit Growers Union, at one time was its president. Then Henry was elected president of the county fair and first horticultural commissioner for the Soquel District.
He had become well known all over the county and a seat in the state assembly seemed to be waiting for him when a serious injury in 1900 caused him to give up that pursuit.
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