Bio of HENDERSON, Thomas (b.1855), Wright Co., MN
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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
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be some typos.

Thomas Henderson, a retired farmer living in Buffalo, was born in Ontario, 
Canada, January 21, 1855, son of Thomas (Sr.) aud Sarah (Robinson) 
Henderson, natives of Ireland, who came as children to Canada, married 
and became leading farmers. Thomas Henderson, Sr., died in the prime of 
manhood, leaving three sons, William, Joel and Thomas. Later the widow 
married Mathew McClay, and by this union had seven children, Sarah J., 
Samuel, James, John, Leslie, Margaret and Robert. Mr. McClay, in 1873, 
brought the family to Minnesota and settled in Howard Lake, this county, 
where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Thomas Henderson 
received his early education in Canada. After coming to this county he 
took up farming on eighty acres of land in Middleville township. He married 
at the age of twenty-three. In 1881 they went to Sherburne county, where 
they farmed until 1909. Then they secured five acres in the suburbs of 
Buffalo, where they now reside, the tract giving Mr. Henderson just enough 
work to keep him busy, without proving the burden that a larger farm would 
be. Mr. Henderson is allied
with the Masonic body at Monticello. Mr. Henderson was married April 30, 
1878, to Sarah Adelaide Smithson, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Humphrey) 
Smithson, pioneers of Wright county. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have three 
children, Eva Jane, wife of H. H. Chilson, of Big Lake; George A., of 
British Columbia; and Mabel, wife of R. A. Marriage, of Big Lake.