Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Henderson, John Dryden July 13, 1846 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Henderson, John Dryden. Herkimer, was born in Norway, N. Y., July 13, 1846. He
received his early education in Fairfield Seminary, and praduated from 
Hamilton College in 1868. He commenced the study of law with Benjamin 
Franklin, of Penn Yan, N. Y., and continued it, in the office of Robert and 
Samuel Earl, heing admitted to the bar in 1860. and has, since March, 1872, 
practiced his profession at Herkimer. He was elected president of the village 
in 1876, re-elected in 1883, was corporation counsel six years, and was a 
member of the State Assembly in 1890. and Democratic candidate for State 
Senator in 1891 for the district embracing Herkimer, Otsego and Madison
counties. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and treasurer of the Herkimer 
Fire Department, president of the D. K. E. chapter of Hamilton College, 
president of Philo. Society of Fairfield Seminary, and author of the "Village 
Charter," a work which ran through three editions. He was the poet at the 
Centennial Celebration of Norway, 1887, and poet at the Philo. reunion at 
Fairfield, 1834. He married Miss Fannie DuBois, of Norway, August 20, 1874. 
They have two children. Mr. Henderson's ancestors have been prominent in New 
York State for over two centuries. They have been legislators, soldiers, and 
men of affairs; and the name stands high in the annals of the
county and State.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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