Henry Wanders and Then Settles with Ruth

Hacienda del Pozo de Verona, Hearst home, near Pleasanton, Alemeda County

"When finished with the vineyard, (I) went to Mexico for a couple of years. Then to the Hearst place in Pleasanton. (I) was there five years. (I) grafted walnut trees there and in that section. (My) work compared with that of Geo. Payne Sr. who grafted for government all along the Pacific Coast."

Hacienda del Pozo de Verona was Phoebe Hearst's palacial estate for which Henry had been hired to bring all sorts of vegetation back from Mexico. It was there that Henry met and married Gertrude McMillan in 1911. That didn't last long. She thought Henry was rich and part of the social group surrounding Mrs. Hearst. Five years later he met and married Ruth Allegra Chamberlain in 1916 and returned to the Laurel Glen Farm with his new bride.

Ruth Allegra Chamberlain Dakin