Henderson, Richard

RICHARD HENDERSON, justice of the peace and farmer, was born on the homestead in Irwin township in 1847. He is a son of George and Laura (Wilson) Henderson, natives of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. George Henderson came from Westmoreland county about 1830 and purchased part of the Morris tract, upon which he yet resides at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He has been twice married, first to Eliza Freeland, who bore him four children: Freeland, in the United States service; Elizabeth, wife of John Atwell, both deceased; James, of Mercer county, and Laura J., married to Alfred Hardwick, of Scrubgrass. His second wife, Laura Wilson, became the mother of five children: Caroline, wife of Perry Beebe of Mercer county; Eliza J., who died in childhood; Richard; Alexander, residing on the homestead in Irwin, and Angeline, wife of John Smith of Warren county. In 1877, our subject purchased his present homestead and has since resided thereon. He was married in 1867 to Miss Clarinda, daughter of A.D. Bonner, who has borne him seven children: William A.; Laura J.; George A.; Susie B.; Harry R.; Isaac V., and Francis A. Mr. Henderson is a member of Pleasant View Methodist Episcopal church, is politically a Democrat, and in 1889 was elected justice of the peace, which position he is now filling.