Henderson, Ole J.

HENDERSON, MIKELSON, HENRYSON, BROWN

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Date: 5/20/2009 at 22:50:36

History of Hamilton County Iowa,1912,Vol.II p.78

OLE J. HENDERSON.

Ole J. Henderson, a law graduate of the University of Minnesota and a practitioner at the bar of Webster City since 1903, is now filling the office of county attorney and is numbered among the leading and successful representatives of the bar of Hamilton County. He was born in this county in 1878, his parents being Lars and Sarah (Mikelson) Henryson. The father was born in Norway and in 1847 came to the United States. He made his way into the interior of the country, settling in Illinois, and in 1858 he took up his abode in Scott township, Hamilton County, Iowa. He was prominent among the Norwegian settlers of that section and held many official positions there, being trustee, a member of the board of supervisors and postmaster, in addition to holding other local offices. He was always loyal to the land of his adoption while retaining the love for the land of his birth. He died in 1896 and is still survived by his widow, who in December, 1911, passed the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey.

Ole J. Henderson was reared under the parental roof and supplemented his public-school education by a course of study in the Iowa State College at Ames, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then pursued the law course in the University of Minnesota and was graduated in 1902 with the degree of Bachelor of Law. He afterward practiced for a short time in that state and then located in Webster City, having been continuously identified with the bar here since 1903. To him has been accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage, and his devotion to its interests is proverbial. He prepares his cases with great thoroughness and care, is sound in argument and logical in his deductions.
In 1910 he was elected to the office of county attorney for a term of two years, so that he is now the incumbent in that position. Since 1909 he has been lecturer on law in the Iowa State College and in that connection is winning a reputation equal to that which he has gained in the work of the courts. Aside from his profession he is known in financial circles of Story City, Iowa, as one of the directors of the First National Bank.

Mr. Henderson was married in 1906, in Boulder, Colorado, to Miss Mary Brown, a daughter of James A. Brown, of Vinton, Iowa, who was for many years secretary of the school for the blind at Vinton. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson make their home at No. 814 Bank street. They are members of the Congregational church and Mr. Henderson belongs also to the Webster City Country Club and to the Webster City Commercial Club—associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern his life. His influence is always given on the side of progress, reform and improvement, and his own record is one of continuous advancement by reason of the wise use he has made of his opportunities.