Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Henderson, David June 30, 1797 - October 7, 1882
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

DAVID HENDERSON 
was born June 30, 1797, in Bald Eagle valley, in what is now Taylor township,
Centre county, Pennsylvania.  His father, Robert Henderson, was a native of
the Emerald Isle, and emigrated to this country from County Derry during the
revolutionary war.  He reared a family of nine sons and one daughter.  He
died when David was but seven years old, leaving him at that tender age to
the charity of a cold, unfeeling world.  He was apprenticed to Joseph Wagner
to learn the shoemaking business.  Some years afterward he commenced working
at his trade in Franklin Township, his only capital being the forty dollars
received for his horse.  Here he did a large amount of work for the extensive
iron works in that neighborhood.  He received his pay in bar iron, which he
wagoned to Pittsburg twice a year.  In 1821 he married Margaret Conrad, a
most estimable lady, who, after a life of exemplary Christian piety and
usefulness, died April 10, 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years.  Mr.
Henderson, in 1831, commenced farming on the farm now known as the homestead,
one and a half miles from the village of Spruce Creek, in Franklin township,
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania.  For the farm he paid the then large sum of
seventeen hundred dollars.  To the pursuit thus adopted by him he ever
afterwards devoted his undivided energies.  In the year 1864 he purchased a
property in the village of Spruce Creek, to which he removed, and where he
spent the last years of his life, dying October 7, 1882.  
      He died surrounded with all the comforts of life which wealth, domestic
happiness, and filial affection were capable of affording, and universally
esteemed and respected.  

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