W. H. Henegar Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 302

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W. H. HENEGAR, who is engaged in general farming near Chamberlain City, 
in Brule county, South Dakota, is a native of Tennessee, having been 
born in the eastern part of that state in 1823, of Irish-Scotch 
parentage. From early childhood he had a home with his grandfather, who 
lived in West Virginia, and afterward in Illinois, where they located 
when our subject was about thirteen years of age. Here he followed the 
life of a farmer boy of those days, working hard and having few 
educational advantages, and upon reaching his majority, he left the 
farm, against the wishes of his relatives, and went to work in the 
Wisconsin lead mines. He located upon his present farm in Red Lake 
township in 1883, where he built an eighteen-by-forty-three-foot sod 
shanty, and which served as a home for many years. Our subject is at 
present engaged in mixed farming, keeps from twenty-five to thirty head 
of cattle, and is a patron of the creamery. 

In 1856 Mr. Henegar was married to Sylvina C. Cannon, who was born in 
Illinois in 1833, and is of Irish-German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Henegar 
are the parents of fifteen children, all of whom are living, and many 
have held prominent positions in the county, among them Lee L., who is 
at present county auditor, and whose life's review appears elsewhere in 
this volume. Mr. Henegar is in political views a Democrat, and is a 
respected citizen, who is well versed on the topics of the day.