Fayette County Genealogy Project
Henderson
Contributor Keely Deuschle
Biography Portrait of Fayette Co., PA
HENDERSON (p. 639)
This family is of Irish ancestry, coming to the United States after a
sojourn in Canada, where Eldras E. Henderson, of Connellsville, was born.
(I) William Henderson was born in County Down, Ireland, where he remained
until shortly after his marriage, then with his bride came to America,
settling in the province of Quebec, Canada. He purchased wild land in the
County of Huntington, Quebec, cleared and improved a small farm, and devoted
the remainder of his life to its cultivation. He married, in Ireland,
Rosanna Hart, also born in County Down, died in Quebec, Canada, leaving
issue.
(II) James, son of William and Rosanna (Hart) Henderson, was born in
Huntington county, Quebec, Canada, where he lived the life of a farmer,
dying when still a young man in 1884. He married Jane, daughter of William
and Mary Graham, of Scotland, but early settlers of Huntington county,
Quebec, where William owned and cultivated a farm. Children of James and
Jane Henderson: 1. Mary, died in infancy. 2. Fred, now cultivating the home
farm in Quebec, which is also the home of his widowed mother. 3. Eldras E.,
of whom further. 4. Rose, married John Barrington, of Huntington county,
Quebec. 5. Ira, a wheat farmer of Alberta, Canada.
(III) Eldras E., son of James and Jane (Graham) Henderson, was born in
Huntington county, Province of Canada, December 8, 1877. He was educated in
the public schools, and when little more than a boy began learning the
miller's trade. After working for three years he came to the United States,
locating in Minnesota, attracted by the big flouring mills of that state. He
next came to Pennsylvania, where for five years he worked at his trade in
Pittsburgh. He next was employed with F. V. Perry, of Scottdale. Still
following his trade of miller, in August, 1910, he entered into partnership
with F. V. Perry and rented an old mill property on the west bank of the
Yough river in Connellsville. Mr. Perry continued the management of the
Scottdale mill, while Mr. Henderson is in charge of the Connellsville plant.
Besides being millers they are also retailers of flour, feed, grain, hay,
straw, etc., and well established in both branches of thier business. Mr.
Henderson has taken out his "first papers" and will soon complete the
necessary measures to becoming a naturalized citizen. he is independent in
political thought and his vote will swell the number of men who by their
independent action exercise a great and salutary influence on American
politics. he is a member of the Maccabees and of the Protestant Episcopal
church.
He married, July 20, 1903, Mrs. Anna Reubi, widow of Charles Reubi, and
daughter of Paul and Anna (Stacy) Rebishchung. Her father was born near the
border line between France and Germany; her mother in Germany. After their
marriage they came to the United States, settling in Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, where Paul was a justice of the peace in his latter years.
They both died in Allegheny county. By first husband Mrs. Henderson has a
son, Charles.
Source:
Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Under the Editorial Supervision of John W. Jordan, LL.D. Librarian of
Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia AND
James Hadden of Uniontown, Pennsylvania; author of “Washington and
Braddock’s Expeditions Through Fayette County,” and the reproductions of
Judge James Veech’s work entitled “The Monongahela of Old, or Historical
Sketches of Southwestern Pennsylvania to the Year 1800.”
New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912, Three Volumes
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