Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-01
D. B. HENDERSON
ANSWERS GALL
Iowa Soldier and Statesman
Passes Away In
Dubuque
BRILLIANT CAREER CLOSED
Death Due to Paresis Which Attacked
Him Months Ago-Represented the
Third District III Congress for
Twenty Years.

Third District in Congress for
Twenty Years.
Dubuque, Feb. 26.-At 2 o'clock yes
terday afternoon Col. David Bremen
Henderson died In Mercy hospital
after months Of suffering, during
which his death was momentarily
expected.
At his bedside were his wife and
Mrs. S. c. Feaslee, Miss Belle Hen
derson, his daughters, two Sisters of
Mercy and the attending nurse. The
distinguished patient sank. early yes
terday morning into a stupor from
which he never recovered, passing
away peacefully. Saturday nights
vigil was felt by those at the bedside
to be the last. With a barely per-
ceptible and it times imperceptible
heart beat, Colonel Henderson failed
steadily until all strength was lost.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed. He will be
buried Thursday afternoon in Lin
wood cemetery, according to his
wish. He said in speech here be-
fore leaving Dubuque for New York:
Il want to be buried In the quiet
cemetery overlooking the Father of
| Waters" The funeral will be from
st. Johns Episcopal church, the
Rev. Mr.. Sage conducting the ser.
vices, and George d. Perkins of
| Sinnv Titu will l.
post, G. A. R., have charge of the
| funeral.
Colonel Henderson left his family
in good circumstances financially.
He had money invested and intimate
friends Of the family say that it is
comfortably cared for.
Besides his daughters and wife
Colonel Henderson leaves one son,
Don, of Long Beach, Cal, who was
unable to reach his fathers bedside;
one sister, Mrs. Kerr, of Postville,
Ia, and a brother in Wyoming.
| In an invalid's chair at Long Beach
last summer sat Colonel David B..
Henderson, once speaker of the ma
tional house of representatives
watching with dull and saddened
| SySo thS Vi ouu SluhluS SlOWly
into the troubled ocean, whose ris-
ing waves gently murmured in his
ears the fateful message they SEEM
ed to bear to him from the eternal
shore.
Some one sought to rouse him from
his reverie by a remark pertaining
to vital public question at Washing
ton.
II guess we'd better let the boys
take care of that" said he, turning
| to his companion placid eyes from
which had faded love of life and into
which had come instead something
| Of the peace and rest which should
| mark the passing of strong men.
1t was the beginning of the end for
Colonel Henderson. His decline was
rapid. A hurried return to familiar
scenes at Dubuque was looked to to
sweep the cloud from his mind, but
in vain. Then began the journey
down into the valley Of death, which
ended yesterday when the announce.
ment came out of the Henderson
home: "He is dead"
The lives of some men are measur-
ed wholly by intellect; the lives OF
others wholly by the heart; in the
life of David B. Henderson these ele.
ments combined so perfectly that he
attained something of true greatness
Born in Scotland, he was yet one
of the pioneers of the central west,
and out of the storm and stress of
its exactions wrought the sturdiness
and se.f-reliance, the Drawn and the
90 yub'nh Cno1Ial
was thoroughly representative of
Iowa, for from it's soil he drew the
inspiration and ambition to do and
to dare and the intellectual, physical
and moral strength which made his
force effective.
Young Henderson came with his
parents to Iowa in 1919 and settled
upon what Is known as Henderson's
Prairie, In Tayette corntv. At the
age of IS he entered to Upper Iowa
university and progressed to TIE end
of his junior year when the war
broke out He enlisted In Company
c Of the Twelfth Iowa infantrv. and
was elected first lieutenant. At Cor
NTH, in 1862. he lost his left leg.
When the Forty-sixth Iowa was or
ganized he again rendered his SER
vices for duty at the front, and was
commissioned colonel of the regiment
June 10, 1861, and served to the end
of the war. The amputation Of his
leg was done on the battlefield. and
like many of the operations perform
ell under the drastic necessities Of
the situation, 1t left a wound which
did not heal. Four times in forty
years he was compelled to submit to
additional operations, the last time
within five years. =
He was first elected to the United
| States congress In 1882, taking his
seat in the Forty-eigth congress when
John G. Carlisle Of Kentucky was the
speaker, and served the Third Iowa
district for 90 years. He was elect
ed speaker OF the Fifty-sixth con-
| gress. and reelected by the Fifty
seventh, following Thomas B. Reed,
| and for the first time bringing this
great distinction, only second to the
\ presidency to Iowa.