Henry was born to John and Harriett Guess who came from Arkansas to California in a wagon train shortly before he was born on the Spanish grant of Don Filipe Lugo (the Lugo ranch).
This photograph is associated with the article, “Two Bank Bandits Shot to Death in El Monte Battle: Third Seized as Officers’ Pistol Team Rushes to Scene After Alarm; Two Law Enforcers Wounded,” Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 1936: 1.