The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-23

who had heard of David's proves as
a wrestler visited He3derson's Prairie
fer the purpose Of trying conclusions
with him. The stranger was taller and
heavier than his boyish opponent, but
HENDERSON threw him repeatedly, the
stranger finally admitting that the boy
was the better man. Finally the sltran-
ger said that if he could have what was
called the right hand under hold,'' he
would try again. 1t was against all
precedent 10 give an opponent such an
advantage. the left hand going with
the under and the right with the upper
hold; but Henderson consented, and.
after a long Struggle, the stranger got
the ''trip-lock," the boy was thrown
his right wrist being dislocated and
one of the bones of the forearm broken.
The doctor called to. look after the in
jury failed to discover the fracture.
The fracture healed slowly and young
Henderson was sent to Rockford, Ill,
where another surgeon could be con-
suited.
David was able to do no manual la
Dor for long time. and it was while
he was thus incapacitated that serious
thought was taken of a college course.
Before he went to college, however, he
! toQ6ll al lGI1Il III S(flOSl III his nOIIlG
district.
Colonel Henderson looks back upon
! that summer as one of the most enjoy
able in his whole career. Never before
had he been able to devote his entire
! time to intellectual pursuits, and he
read and studied with an enthusiasm
that helped him to make wonderful
progress.
His First speech-making.
That fall d. B. Henderson entered
! the Upper Iowa university as fresh
man. There he studied for three years.
working on the farm in summers and
| living with the greatest frugality in
winters He and chum rented quar-
tiers and kept house for themselves,
! cooking their own food, sweeping their
own floors, making their own beds
Young Henderson got special stand
| ing among his fellow students through
an incident which had a feature sug-
geStive of the incident in which his
| father and the Earl of Buchan were
principals. His skill as a debater was
as great as his superiority as wrest-
| ler He had begun when he was only
S years old. his oldest brother George
being his opponent generally and his
! father the judge. His reputation in
| this line had preceded him at Fayefte,
and he had not been in the college a
week before he was chosen to lead a
| discussion before one of the debating
societies. On his first appearance he
was interrupted by a senior, who asked
a flippant question. Henderson
stopped and looked at the fellow but
soon resumed. Three or four minutes,
later came another interruption, much
more fiippant in tone-inSulting even.
Henderson turned again and looked at
the fellow. This time the young man
from Henderson's Prairie spoke up.
Mr. Chairman quoth he IF you
can not preserve order in this room, l
will
Then he upset the senior and piled
him up in the woodbox. There were no
more Interruptions at Upper Iowa Uni
versity when David Bremen Hender-
son was making remarks.
How He Went to War.
Though he enjoyed student life at
Fayette immensely, he did not finish
the course of study there. 1t was in
terrupted by the civil war One Of his
best friends was a student named w.
w. Warner In August, 1861, while the
war was still young. Henderson and
Warner spent a Sunday evening with
Warmers sister. Later in the night
Henderson told Warner he was asham-
ed of himself because he had not en-
listed as a volunteer in the army of the
north. 1t would be a pity to leave
school, he said, but the country needed
young men just then. The friends talk
ed long and earnestly over the situa-
ton, and the result was plan, the cul-
mination of which occurred at Fay
cite on Sept. 10. Henderson was then
On the morning of that day, just aft
ter prayers, young Henderson, who.
with Warner and another student by
the name of Burr, had been working
quietly among the students at their
Conspiracy" arose and asked permits
sion to say a few words ION a subject
of vital interest to every one present
He had no complaint, no protest to
make, he said, but he wished earnestly
to be heard. This was an entirely novel
proposition, and the faculty hesitated,
but permission was finally given. Then
the youngster stood out upon the floor
and made his first war speech He
dwelt upon the governments needs for
the services of it's strong young sons,
and declared it to be the duty of all
who could rush to the front. His eff
fort eliminated in a whiTiwind of pas
sion and patriotism, and when he had
finished he read a series CT resolutions
setting forth the situation in sober
phrase, and concluding with this para
graph:
we therefore drop our books to fight
our country's battles"
To this was appended a muster roll
bearing the names of twenty-five stu
dents, the flower of the schools student
bod.r.
Before he went to the front, Hender-
son enlisted 104 more volunteers, and
thus the career of this typical American
soldier professional man and states
man was begun. His war record is
known to all the world. Though offered
a captains place, he said he was too
young and so was made second lieu
tenant Twice he was wounded, once in
the face, when he was first under fire,
and once below the knee, which made
amputation necessary. Nevertheless, he
returned to the front, though wearing
a timber leg, and when the war was
over he was a. colonel, at %. After
that he studied law, served as internal
revenue collector for the Dubuque dis
trict. and seventeen years ago was
elected to congress.
Colonel Henderson is now only 80,
with what may be the most brilliant
part of his career before him..
I. D. MARSHALL.
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