Henry O. Hendrickson (1843-1934)

HENDRICKSON, HOUGE, BATES, STOCKDALE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/16/2023 at 20:48:56

From The Slater News November 28, 1934 (page 1)

H. O. HENDRICKSON

H. O. Hendrickson was born at Wiota, Dane county, Wisconsin, November 17, 1844. He grew to manhood in the community of his birth. At the age of 17 he answered Lincoln's call for volunteers, enlisting in Company G of the Fifteenth Wisconsin volunteer infantry, a Scandinavian regiment, commanded by a Norwegian.

Hendrickson's war service extended over a period of three years and two months. During this time he had a part in twenty-six important battles in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, his regiment, losing 345 men killed and wounded. He received an honorable discharge.

Following his discharge from the service, Mr. Hendrickson returned to his Wisconsin home and after a needed rest entered business college at Madison. Later, the spring of 1866, he came to Des Moines, Iowa, where he secured employment in a lumber yard, where he worked for some time.

The marriage to Miss Sarah Houge was solemnized on Christmas eve, 1871. The following year they moved to Sheldahl, Iowa, there to make their home. During his long residence in Sheldahl, nearly forty years, he took a very active interest in the community, serving it in many capacities--as justice of the peace, assessor, mayor and postmaster. He was employed in Oley Nelson's store for a while, serving as clerk. At the time of his Sheldahl residence he bought what later became known as the Wright Fread farm, northeast of Slater, where the family lived a few years. Disposing of it, he returned to Sheldahl.

In 1909 the family moved to Wyoming, where they homesteaded a 320 acre farm near La Grange. They lived there ten years, after which they returned to Iowa, taking up their residence at Ames. Following his wife's death in 1933, he entered the Old Soldiers Home at Marshalltown. That he might be nearer his children, as well as his many friends, he later entered the Old People's Home at Story City, where he passed away on Tuesday afternoon, November 20th, at an age over 91 years old. He had celebrated his birth on Saturday, the 17th.

He is survived by four children--Mrs. Helen Bates of Ames, Mrs. Mary Stockdale of Goldfield, Geo. Hendrickson of La Grange, Wyo., and Milford of the U. S. veterans' hospital at Knoxville, Iowa. Also a sister and a brother.