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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 9 December 2004 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Turtlecreek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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GEORGE HENDERSON, retired farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Ireland May 28, 1802. His parents, John and Catharine (Gray) Henderson, were Protestants, of Scotch-Irish descent, and both natives of North Ireland. They emigrated to America in 1815, and, in 1816, settled in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., where our subject was raised and where he has since lived. His parents both lived to reach a ripe old age, the father dying at 98, and the mother at 90 years of age. Mr. Henderson, our subject, remained on the farm with his father until he was 32 years of age, and received all his education after he was 25 years of age. He was married, May 8, 1834, in less than two months after he left the home farm, to Miss Dorotha Knox, a native of Ireland. They had six children, of whom only two, the eldest and youngest, survive. The elder of these, Catherine Gray, is now the wife of Frank Hart, son of Judge Hart; and the younger, Isabella, is the wife of Thomas E. Corwin, of Warren County. Mr. Henderson started in life with nothing. He has labored diligently, lived frugally and succeeded in establishing himself on a firm financial footing. He has met with the usual reverses of fortune, and has lost considerable money at different times through the dishonesty of others, but he has still sufficient of this world's goods to support him in his declining years. He takes great pride in telling that his first vote was cast for John Quincy Adams. He now owns a splendid tract of 85 acres of land in the vicinity of Lebanon. He has been an earnest member of the First Presbyterian Church of Lebanon over sixty years. |
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