Augusta A. Fox Henderson

HENDERSON, FOX, BROWNELL

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall
Date: 3/3/2010 at 01:25:26

Henderson, Mrs. Augusta A. Fox, social leader, born near Tiffin City, Ohio, 17th May, 1843. She is the daughter of Alonzo H. Fox and Caroline A. Brownell, originally of New York, now of California. Mr. Fox was a successful "Forty-niner" and removed to Iowa with his family in 1853.

Mrs. Henderson was a student in the Upper Iowa University, where she met her future husband, David B. Henderson, the able and brilliant representative of the 3d District of Iowa since 1883. In 1866 she bacame Mr. Henderson's wife in West Union, the home of her parents. From there they went to Dubuque, where they now live.

Alive to all the interests of the day and their ever increasing demands for attention, she has the qualities of mind and heart, a true sympathy, clear discernment and sound decision, that belong to those whom fate and fortune call out as leaders.

~ A woman of the century: fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life;Portraits and biographies of prominent American women; F.E. Willard & M.A.R. Livermore; 1893; pg 371