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HENDERSON, ALEXANDER JAMES (1811-1866)

HENDERSON, ALEXANDER JAMES, cabinet maker; b. Chatham, c1811, s/o George Henderson and Ann (Newman) McGregor; m. 1st, 1835, Ann Spratt, d/o Joseph Spratt and Ann Coy, and 2nd, 1847, Margaret Wilson, of Guysborough, N.S.; d. Chatham, 27 Aug 1866.

A. James Henderson, who was the son of a prosperous vintner in Chatham, and a nephew of the businessman Patrick Henderson, studied at the County Grammar School under Archibald Gray. In 1835 he announced that he had begun a cabinet-making business, and he continued to be a cabinet maker in the town until the 1860s. He was not extensively involved in community affairs, but he was a trustee of the Methodist church in 1885.

At least three children were born of Henderson's marriage to Ann Spratt, who died in 1846, at age thirty, and at least four of his marriage to Margaret Wilson, who died in 1863, at age forty-four. A son of the first marriage, John Henderson, apprenticed as a printer in The Gleaner office in Chatham and had a noteworthy career as foreman of the composing room, and later as night editor, of the New York Herald. In 1887-88 he was in Paris helping launch the European edition of the Herald, which became the outstanding English-language newspaper on the continent.

Sources

[m] official records; Gleaner 12 Jan 1847 [d] Gleaner 1 Sep 1866 / Advocate 1 Sep 1880, 4 Jan 1888, 1 Mar 1905; county records (29/255, will of George Henderson, 1823); Gleaner 27 Oct 1835, 19 Sep 1846, 4 Apr 1863; Royal Gazette 28 Mar 1808 (re. death of Daniel McGregor); Sewell (re. marriage of Donald McGregor and Anne Newman, 27 Jun 1795); World 13 Jun 1885


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