Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Henderson, A. G. February 15, 1899
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Sioux City Journal, Feb. 19, 1899
Sioux City Journal, February 19, 1899 

DIED 

HENDERSON- In Spokane Falls, Washington, February 16, 1899, A. G. Henderson, 
aged 70 years. 

Deceased was the father of John T. and James Q. Henderson and Mrs. C. E. 
Hatfield, all of Sioux City; Mrs. H. M. Miles of Maquoketa, Iowa, and Mrs. T. 
J. Morgan of Spokane, Washington. The remains will be taken to Maquoketa and 
interred beside those of Sarah Ann Henderson, wife of the deceased. Mr. 
Henderson was a member of the A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R. He 
was a cousin of Theodore N. Morrison, Bishop-elect of the Episcopel Diocese of 
Iowa and was a lifelong friend of E. B. Washburn, Minister to France under 
Grant's administration. 

He was married in 1846 at Council Hill, Illinois to Sarah Ann Barrow. Their 
five children are all living. Andrew Gillespie Henderson was born at 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania January 4, 1823. In 1833 he removed to Springfield, 
Illinois, where he entered the office of the State Journal as an apprentice. 
At the age of 14 he finished his trade on the Galena Gazette, which paper he 
finally conducted. In 1854 he conducted the Dubuque Tribune. In 1855 he 
removed to Maquoketa, where he resided forty-four years, being one of the 
founders of the Maquoketa Excelsior, he being at one time manager of the state 
printing of Iowa. In 1857 he was a candidate for representative, but was 
defeated by a small majority, the district being overwhelming democratic. In 
1862 he enlisted in Company F., Thirty-first Iowa Regiment, being elected 
first lieutenant and served nearly three years, participating at the siege of 
Vicksburg, the battle of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, 
Ringgold and Atlanta, serving in the 15th Army Corps under General John A. 
Logan. 



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