HENDERSON, J. B.

HENDERSON, BERKSHIRE

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Date: 5/10/2005 at 13:08:04

Biography reproduced from page 467 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

J. B. Henderson, a native of Ohio, was born July 27, 1849. In 1852 his parents removed to Jackson Co., Iowa. They remained there five years; thence to Algona, Kossuth county, and lived there twenty-one years. They then removed to Humboldt county, remaining there four years, then came back to Kossuth county, locating on the southeast quarter of section 7, township 94, range 29. Mr. Henderson was married Sept. 28, 1874, to Lillie Berkshire, of Muscatine, Iowa. They have three children—Bertram B., Eugene T. and Estella L. Mr. Henderson has always followed farming, with the exception of four years that he carried the mail between Algona and Dakota City. He is a democrat.