The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-26

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Special to The Journal.
Dubuque, Iowa, Feb. 26.-David B.
Henderson, former speaker Of the ma
tional house Of representatives is dead.
He was stricken with paresis nine
months ago, and later his condition be-
came 50 critical that he was removed
to a hospital Two weeks ago he suf
fered another stroke, which resulted in
Friday, when his mental powers re-
turned for few hours. He died yes.
terday afternoon at 2 O'Clock, with all
Of his family except, a son, who Is in
California, at his bedside.
The funeral will be held next Thurs
church under the auspices Of the Grand
Army. Former Congressman George D.
Perkins Of Sioux City will deliver a
eulogy. The body is to lie in state on
Thursday at the church.
49,. His Strenuous Career.
Few careers have been more pictur-
seqHa 9r h ba or no5g e9se t a.
young, republic than that of David B.
Henderson, for twenty years a mem
sixth and afty-seventh congresses. AID
yet he was not. q native.born son OF
America. It was, at Old Deer, Scot
land, on March 4 ]tH, that he was :H
the : son Of Thomas 81: Henderson, a
Henderson. Emigrating to America
when 6 years of age, uDave' Hender-
son proved that umuch might be made
s Of :! s :; if he be caught quite
: The story Of howGthe Henderson fam
lily came to emigrate is Of interest.
Those who knew the colonel are we'll
aware Of two characte ristics: blunt sin
certify and iconoclastic independence.
He came by both naturally. It was a
gran dfather, on the maternal side who,
being an independents thinker, seeded
entirely from theor established church
day school in his parish, appointing
an expression Off freedom of tbelief
dreadfully radical in those days and in
that section Of the world. The charac-
teristics were even more in evidence IN
Thomas Henderson, Dave 81 father:
earl Of Buchan, who told him that,
in recompense, he might occupy strip
Of land rent free, and that the same
privilege would be accorded to the
three succeeding Henderson generations.
Thomas Henderson built some houses
on the land, spending all his money IN
their erection. The old earl died sud.
to keep the pledge made to Henderson,
who did not have scrap. Of paper to
show his right to his real;estate hold
ing. 80.
When the new laird came to serve
notice, the enraged Scot promptly
kicked him off the premises in The pres
ence Of the great man g hirelings. He
then gathered his flock about him and
| took the next vessel for America. When
he reached Chicago he had but one
starvation. It took three years for the
family to lay by enough money to con:
| tinue the Journey to the Mississippi
river, and crossing it, they located at
that frontier Of civilization which has
been the Henderson home ever since,
Dubuque. 49, - 49, III
Colonel Henderson distinguished him
ant Of Company G, Twelfth Iowa infan-
try.*4At Corinth he lost his / left leg,
and when he recovered he rejoined the
Of which he became colonel. At the
close Of the war he took UP the prac.
ElC0 OIL law duu UcCdmc Ou6 VI kuc UcSt
trial lawyers in the state. Soon he
dabb1ed in politics and later found him.
self elected to represent the third Iowa
district in congress. He served ter
terms, then voluntarily retired afte1
serving as speaker Of the ffty-sixtt
and fifty seventh congresses.
To quote his own words, Speaker
Henderson was "a republican by in
heritance, instinct, training, education
and By, the proved experience Of sixty
His wife was Augusta A. Fox and
they were married March q, 1866. The
devotion Of Mrs. Henderson to her hus
band during his terrible suffering Of
the last year has been beautiful in the
extreme. Mrs. Henderson cared little
for society, but during the service service q q
Washington, she discharged the socia.
duties with perfect success.
AS Debater and Speaker.
). Washington, Feb. 26.-David B. Hen
dersOn was for MANY years q prOm1nen