James Henderson Biography


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KYLE, James Henderson, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Xenia, 
Greene County, Ohio, on February 24, 1854; attended the public schools 
and was graduated from the high school of Urbana, Ill.; completed a 
course of civil engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana in 
1871; was graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1878; prepared for 
admission to the bar, but entered the Western Theological Seminary, 
Allegheny, Pa., and was graduated in 1882; pastor of Congregational 
churches in Echo and Salt Lake City, Utah, 18821885; moved to Ipswich 
and later to Aberdeen, S. Dak.; elected to the State senate on the 
Independent ticket in 1890; elected as an Independent to the United 
States Senate in 1891; reelected in 1897 and served from March 4, 1891, 
until his death; chairman of the United States Industrial Commission 
1898-1901; died in Aberdeen, Brown County, S. Dak., July 1, 1901; 
interment in Riverside Cemetery.