Excerpt from Transaction of The McLean County Historical Society - 1899:
Franklin Henderson, farmer, Towanda, whose parents came from Ohio to this state in 1817, was of Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent, born in Green County, Illinois, September 15, 1828. Married Sarah A. Metcalf August 11, 1851; moved to Towanda in 1857 and engaged in farming, stock raising and grain dealing; for ten years a member of the Board of Supervisors, during four years of which time he was chairman of that body for which position he was admirably fitted by his intelligence, thorough knowledge of county business, integrity, firmness, and courtesy. He was a Democrat until the first Lincoln campaign, when he cast his first Republican vote and after that was one of that party's trusted leaders and advisers in McLean County. He was a practical man and was one of the first in the county to use tile for farm drainage, having thoroughly tiled his farm as early as 1872. At the age of eleven years he joined the Methodist Church, of which he was ever after a consistent member. Died at Bloomington August 2, 1800, leaving his wife and four sons, George A., Frank R., Edwin I., Harry M., and one daughter, Effie surviving him.
Franklin Henderson, farmer, Towanda, whose parents came from Ohio to this state in 1817, was of Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent, born in Green County, Illinois, September 15, 1828. Married Sarah A. Metcalf August 11, 1851; moved to Towanda in 1857 and engaged in farming, stock raising and grain dealing; for ten years a member of the Board of Supervisors, during four years of which time he was chairman of that body for which position he was admirably fitted by his intelligence, thorough knowledge of county business, integrity, firmness, and courtesy. He was a Democrat until the first Lincoln campaign, when he cast his first Republican vote and after that was one of that party's trusted leaders and advisers in McLean County. He was a practical man and was one of the first in the county to use tile for farm drainage, having thoroughly tiled his farm as early as 1872. At the age of eleven years he joined the Methodist Church, of which he was ever after a consistent member. Died at Bloomington August 2, 1800, leaving his wife and four sons, George A., Frank R., Edwin I., Harry M., and one daughter, Effie surviving him.
Excerpt from Transaction of The McLean County Historical Society - 1899:
Franklin Henderson, farmer, Towanda, whose parents came from Ohio to this state in 1817, was of Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent, born in Green County, Illinois, September 15, 1828. Married Sarah A. Metcalf August 11, 1851; moved to Towanda in 1857 and engaged in farming, stock raising and grain dealing; for ten years a member of the Board of Supervisors, during four years of which time he was chairman of that body for which position he was admirably fitted by his intelligence, thorough knowledge of county business, integrity, firmness, and courtesy. He was a Democrat until the first Lincoln campaign, when he cast his first Republican vote and after that was one of that party's trusted leaders and advisers in McLean County. He was a practical man and was one of the first in the county to use tile for farm drainage, having thoroughly tiled his farm as early as 1872. At the age of eleven years he joined the Methodist Church, of which he was ever after a consistent member. Died at Bloomington August 2, 1800, leaving his wife and four sons, George A., Frank R., Edwin I., Harry M., and one daughter, Effie surviving him.
Franklin Henderson, farmer, Towanda, whose parents came from Ohio to this state in 1817, was of Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent, born in Green County, Illinois, September 15, 1828. Married Sarah A. Metcalf August 11, 1851; moved to Towanda in 1857 and engaged in farming, stock raising and grain dealing; for ten years a member of the Board of Supervisors, during four years of which time he was chairman of that body for which position he was admirably fitted by his intelligence, thorough knowledge of county business, integrity, firmness, and courtesy. He was a Democrat until the first Lincoln campaign, when he cast his first Republican vote and after that was one of that party's trusted leaders and advisers in McLean County. He was a practical man and was one of the first in the county to use tile for farm drainage, having thoroughly tiled his farm as early as 1872. At the age of eleven years he joined the Methodist Church, of which he was ever after a consistent member. Died at Bloomington August 2, 1800, leaving his wife and four sons, George A., Frank R., Edwin I., Harry M., and one daughter, Effie surviving him.
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