HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      409

    Mr. and Mrs. Dunagan are the parents of the following children
Lois L., now a milliner; Verna L., a music teacher ; and Carlos, a student
in the high school of Brazil.

    Thomas HENDERSON. The veterans of the Civil war are fast passing
away. One by one they respond to the last roll call, but while memory
remains to the American people the record of the boys in blue who
fought for the Union will he cherished. Mr. Henderson is numbered
among the veterans, and in days of peace has been equally loyal to the
interests of his county, state and nation. He has especially proved his
devotion to the general welfare through his fidelity and promptness in
the execution of his duties as an officeholder. At the present time he is
serving as township trustee. He makes his home in Brazil and has been
a resident of Clay county since January, 1854.
    A native of Ohio, Mr. Henderson was born in Holmes county, Sep-
tember 20, 1831, his parents being Edward and Mary (Brooks) Hender-
son. Her father was born in Ireland and came to the United States in
early life. He cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of Holmes county,
Ohio, where he followed the occupation of farming and aided in the devel-
opment of that section of the country. He died when sixty-three years
of age, while his wife survived to the advanced age of seventy-eight years.
They were the parents of two sons, the elder being Stewart Henderson,
now a resident of Iowa.
    Thomas Henderson spent the first twenty-two years of his life in the
state of his nativity, and when a lad of about six years began his education
as a public-school student. He worked upon the home farm in his youth
and afterward learned the wagon maker’s trade. In 1854 he removed
from Ohio to Indiana, settling in Clay county in the month of January,
where he resumed work at his trade, which he continuously followed until
1888. In that year he was called by popular suffrage to the office of city
treasurer and so capably did he discharge his duties that he was continued
in the position by re-election for ten consecutive years. He then retired
from the office as he had entered it—with the confidence and good will of
all concerned—his official honor and integrity being ever above reproach.
In 1904 he was elected township trustee, which position he is filling at
the present time, and he had previously served in that capacity, his first
election occurring in 1882.
    At the time of the Civil war Mr. Henderson, responding to the
country’s call, enlisted in Company G. Twenty-eighth Regiment of Illi-
nois Volunteers, at Danville, Illinois, March 15, 1865. He was mustered
in at Camp Butler, Springfield, and from there went to Span-
ish Fort and afterward to Fort Blakeley. Later the troops
returned to Spanish Fort and proceeded across the bay to Mobile and
afterward to Whistler, but after a short time again returned to camp
near Mobile and on July 1 were placed aboard steamers for Texas. They
received their discharge at Brownsville, Texas, March 15, 1866, and then
returned to Camp Butler at Springfield, Illinois, arriving there on the 1st
of April, 1866, and they remained there until the 6th of April following:
Mr, Henderson was appointed second lieutenant but this commission
never reached him and later he was commissioned first lieutenant. He is
now a member of Canby Post, No. 2, G. A. R., and thus maintains pleasant
relations with old army comrades.