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inspection trip of the watrrways and haria promiof the Alaskan coast. nent in mawnic atTairs; and is a member

many masonic IxKlies. Hendee, Mrs., heroine, was born

in

When the Indians burned Royalton,

1754.

Vt., in

1770, her husilmnd, Joshua llen<leo. was absent in a Vermont regiment, and slie wa» The Indians at work in an adjacent field. entered her house, seized her children, and carried them acrosM White river, where it was a hundred yards wide and too deep for .Mrs.

Hendee dashed into the

river,

swam and waded through, and, entering the camp, regardless of the tcmiahawks that were tlnurished altout her head, demanded her children's release, and pers4'vertHl until She carried them her request was granted. in safety on the other bank, and, returning three times in succession, pnwured the release of fifti-en children l)e!onging to her neigiibors. On her final return to the camp the Indians were so struck with her courage that one ul them declaretl that so brave a squaw deserved to be carried across the stream, and taking her on his back swain with her to the place where the rescued children were awaiting her i«'luin. She was twenty two years old when she pcrfoniicd this feat, and in 1818 she was living in Sharon, Vt.. with her third Iiu^IuiimI. whose iiaim- was .Mosher. It is thought that sli>> removed to one of the western states about IS2«).

Hendee, George Whitman, lawyer, state vnator. rongrcs>niaii. ;,'ovcnior. was Ixiru Nov. 30, 1832, in Stowe. Vt. He was pros(vnting attorney in 1858; a member of the stalt

house of representatives

in

lSt!|

63;

and of the state senate in 18(WMJ8. He was lieutenant governor of Vcniioiit in 18(5!}; was governor in 1870; and in 1873 79 he was a representative to the forty-third, f<)rtyfourth

and

forty-fifth

congresses as

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postmaster in

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po^tma-ter; serxtd on various I nilitl States steaiii>)iips

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Akron.

OK AMKUK'AN UIOQRAPIiY.

at

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navy yard on In'lHiU he

I.eigiie Island. I'hilaihiphia. Pa.

was pioinoted to pay inspector; was general .Innkeeper at the navy yard at I'ortsiiioiitii; and in IS'.Mi became general storekeepi he navy yard. Itoj^ton, Mass. at Ii) ISIl'.l he was pioimited to pay director; and in VMfl was retired with the rank of rear admiral. During iiis service he was on the i

I

Hranily wine. (^ssipi'e, Pinola, Itichmond, Saianac, Independence and Phila-

-teaiiisliip

delpliia.

Hendel, William, elerg^nmn, pioneer, was alniut 173t> in (Jerniaiiy. After tudies, he reinovetl

Imuii

pleting to

ilie

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one <»f the church in in

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.iiierica.

in

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and became

of the tiernian lefornieil He died Sept. 29, 1798,

rhiladeipliia. Pa.

Heodershott, Henry B., lawy»'r>tnte senaborn Miiy 15, I8H5, in .Miami county, Ohio. In 18-15 he was ap|>ointed prosecuiiiig attorney for the seventh district of Ohio. He organised the county of Wapello, in IS-17 he was d»'puty surveyor-general of Iowa and Wisconsin. In 1848 he was ap|M)iiited <me of the commissioners to settle the iMtiimlary U-tween Iowa and Missouri. In 1S."»(I h- WHS elected t<» the Ohio state tor. a»

senate.

He died

.iig.

10,

1900, in

Ottumwa,

Iowa.

Henderson, Archibald, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 7. 178t}, in (iranville vouiily. N.C. In 1799-1803 he was a representative from North Candina to the sixth and seventh congresses; and was subsequetrtly el-eted to the general assembly for several terms. He died Oct. 21, 1822, in .Salisbury, N.O.

Henderson, Archibald, soldier, was

born

in 'irginia. He .served in the war 1812; and attained the rank of major. He also served in the Florida war; and received the rank of brigadier-general. He ill

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of

'iied .Fan. 27.

1837. in

Washington. D.C.

Henderson, Bennett H., congressnum. In he was a representative from Ten-

IS1.">-17

nessee to the f<»urteenth congress. in T«'nneHsee.

He

died