Biography of Calvin Henderson, Scott Co, AR

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Submitted by: Charlene Holland <Char@presys.com>
        Date: 9 Sep 1998
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	Prof. Calvin Henderson has been wonderfully successful as an
instructor of the young, and as principal of the high school of Waldron
he has won the praise and commendation of friend and foe alike. He was
born in North Carolina November 19, 1859, to William and Lydia
(Gwilliams) Henderson, the former a worthy and fairly successful tiller
of the soil. Calvin's early educational advantages were very poor, but at
the age of eighteen years he determined to remedy this defect, and
accordingly entered an academy in which he remained for about one year,
fitting himself to enter college, which he did in 1878 at Dahlonega, Ga.
This institution was the North Georgia Agricultural College, and from it
he was graduated in 1882, after leaving which he took up the study of
law at Dallas, Ga., and was admitted to the bar in 1885.  Preferring
school work to the practice of his profession, he, in 1886, came to Yell
County, Ark., and after being engaged in teaching in that county for
about three years he went to Hartford, in the schools of which place he
acted as principal. He then came to Waldron, and here and Prof. S.B.
Goddard have established a high school, with normal, commercial and
musical departments, which are well attended and in a prosperous
condition. It is the design of the teachers and board of directors to
make the high school of Waldron second to none in the western part
of the State and to say that they have already succeeded would be but a
simple statement of the facts. The school has already a good reputation
abroad, and is liberally patronized by those at a distance. The course
of study, while not complete, is very thorough, and on finishing a course
in this institution the students are well fitted to make their own way in
the world. Prof. Henderson is an active member of the Baptist Church and
an efficient teacher in the Sunday school. He is a member of the Kappa
Chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity, Dahlonega, Ga.