JOHN J. HENDERSON
John J. Henderson was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania in April, 1853. His mother died when he was young, and when six years of age he moved with his grand-parents to Jackson county, Iowa, and was there reared on a farm. He came to Cass county in 1876, and bought a farm in this township. He now owns the northwest quarter of section 13, and a portion on section 24, making a farm of two hundred and forty acres. Mr. Henderson has made many farm improvements, having a good frame house and several stock barns; he has some of the finest stock in the county, and is known throughout the southwest of Iowa as a successful stock-breeder. He was married in Cass county, Iowa, February 28, 1878, to Hattie Gilbaugh, a daughter of John Gilbaugh of Lincoln township. They have been blessed with two children Clara Alta and Ada Mabel.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 769.
