HENDERSON, REV. M. C. This venerable divine was born
at Meredith, N.H., in 1819, son of David and Rebecca (Chase) Henderson.
His minority was spent in the town of Hardwick. He entered the Free Baptist
ministry in 1840, and spent four years in mission work in Nova Scotia.
Mr. Henderson has held six different pastorates, the longest, a period
of eight years, at Lyndon Center. During his pastorate at Lakeport, N.
H., he received forty persons to church fellowship at one time. He has
organized four churches, preached the dedication sermon of thirteen houses
of worship, preached nine ordination and four installation sermons, solemnized
between three and four hundred marriages, attended the funerals of fifteen
ministers, and officiated at 1,024 funerals. On three different occasions
he has officiated at the funerals of four different persons at one service.
Rev. Mr. Henderson served in the legislature of Vermont in 1856, '63, and
'64. He married Miss Susan A. Wood of Hartland, Vermont, in 1843. Their
only son is O. H. Henderson.
Source:
Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical
Publishing Company, 1904, page 86-88.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn, September 2005
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