Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Henderson, John August 4, 1843

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JOHN HENDERSON, one of Grant’s veteran soldiers, a leading citizen of Derry and
a popular passenger conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad, is a son of Andrew
and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Henderson and was born in Derry township, Westmoreland
county, Pa., August 4, 1843. His paternal grandfather (Henderson) was a native
of Scotland, came to America when a young man and settled in Unity township,
where he resided till his death. His maternal grandfather (Mitchell) was born in
Ireland, settled near the site of Latrobe, where he was captured by Indians and
held as a prisoner for five years before he succeeded in making his escape.
Andrew Henderson (father) was born in Unity township in 1785 and died in May,
1881, aged ninety-six years. He was a farmer, a democrat and a member of the
Baptist church, with which he united in l868. In 1835 he removed to Derry
township where he passed the remainder of his days. He married Elizaheth
Mitchell and reared a family of eight children: Delilah, widow of William
Miller; Sampson, lives at Latrobe; dames; Agnes, who died about 1865; Mary, wife
of Edward Boyd; Andrew, of Ligonier township; Elizabeth, wife of D. E. Weaver;
and John, of Derry borough. Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson died in 1884.

   John Henderson was reared in Derry township and attended the common schools
until he was eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in Co. C, eleventh reg. Pa.
Vols., and served from September 3, l861, to July, 1865. He fought at
Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and
Gettysburg and participated in all of the battles of Grant’s campaign from the
Wilderness fights to Appomattox Court House. He received a flesh wound at
Fredericksburg and was shot in the thigh at Gettysburg. At the former place he
was captured and taken to Libby prison, where he passed twenty-eight days before
he was exchanged. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and
returned home, where he worked for eighteen months in a saw-mill. He was then
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has been in their service ever
since. For the last seventeen years he has been a passenger conductor and now
runs a train from Derry to Altoona.

   In March, 1866, John Henderson married Eliza Hunsberger, daughter of John
Humsburger, of Derry township. They have had nine children: George, Minnie, wife
of E. K. Pringle of Latrobe; Leasure, who died June 18, 1881; Dora, Charles,
William, Wilson, who died March 20, 1880; Marie and Roy.

   John Henderson owns fine property in the borough of Derry and is widely and
favorably known to the traveling public as one of the most efficient and popular
passenger conductors on the Pennsylvania railroad.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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