BIO: Warren M. HENDERSON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 39-40. 
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WARREN M. HENDERSON, attorney-at-law, Huntingdon, Pa., was born in Spruce 
Creek township, Huntingdon county, July 3, 1869. He is a son of David P. and 
Esther J. (Stover) Henderson, both natives and life-long residents of 
Huntingdon county. His grandfather, David Henderson, a representative of a 
Scotch-Irish family, came from Chester county, and settled in the northern 
part of this county when it was still a wilderness. Here, in Franklin 
township, on the 8th of April, 1838, David P. Henderson was born. From his 
youth he has devoted his attention to farming, in which he is still engaged. 
He is a useful and influential man, and has served the township in various 
public capacities. His wife, Esther J. Stover, is of German descent, and was 
born in Warriors' Mark township. Their family of eight children are living. 
They are as follows: Mary B., widow of O. L. Borst, Spruce Creek, Huntingdon 
county; Charles M.; Warren M.; Elizabeth (Mrs. Rush A. Horrell); John S.; 
Ella; Esther (Mrs. W. L. Shultz); and William W., all residing in Spruce 
Creek. 
  Warren M. Henderson passed his early days on the homestead farm, and began 
his education in the neighboring common schools. He afterwards became a 
student of Juniata College, Huntingdon, and of the State Normal School, 
Westchester, Pa. At seventeen years of age he began teaching. For four 
winters he taught in Franklin and Warriors' Mark townships. He was employed 
by the P.R.R. Co. early in 1890, as a clerk in their ticket office in 
Pittsburg, Pa. In 1891, he resigned his clerkship in order to study law. Mr. 
Henderson prepared himself for his profession at the Law School of Dickinson 
College, Carlisle, Pa., under the preceptorship of John W. Wetzel, Esq., of 
the bar of that county seat. On June 4, 1894, Mr. Henderson was graduated 
from the Law School; on the next day he was admitted to the Cumberland county 
bar, and on July 2, 1894, to the bar of Huntingdon county; in August of the 
same year he began practise at Huntingdon. During the first two years of his 
practise Mr. Henderson was engaged in at least two notable cases. The former 
case, September, 1894, was that of Commonwealth vs. Edward Couch, in which he 
was one of the counsel for the defendant, who was tried for murder and 
acquitted. In the latter case, Commonwealth vs. W. W. Elmer and Joseph 
McCracken, indicted for the murder of George Hawn, he was again defendants' 
counsel. This case was tried in 1895, December term, and occupied seven days, 
with five evening sessions; the verdict was acquittal Mr. Henderson has 
efficiently served the borough for the past two years as borough attorney; on 
January 13, 1896, he was appointed sheriff's attorney. He has been since 
September 15, 1895, chairman of the Democratic county committee. He is an 
active member of Juniata Lodge, NO. 117, I.O.O.F., of Huntingdon, and of the 
German Reformed church. Mr. Henderson is unmarried. The remaining portion of 
the family are members of the Methodist church at Spruce Creek.