Dr. Joseph Henderson and Margaret Isenberg

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Husband Dr. Joseph Henderson ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 2 Aug 1791 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 3 4
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         Father: Matthew Henderson (      -1796) 1
         Mother: Margaret Kearsley (      -      ) 1 6

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       Marriage: 1852 4

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   Other Spouse: Jane E. Maclay (1786-1848) 2 3 4

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Wife Margaret Isenberg ^{4 5}

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         Father: David Isenberg (1796-      ) 5
         Mother: Margaret Steele (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M James L. Henderson ⁴

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2 M Joseph Henderson ⁴

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3 M William B. Henderson ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Joseph Henderson

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He was a captain in the War of 1812, a physician in Kishacoquillas valley, and member of Congress from Centre County District in 1833-37.

He accepted a commission as lieutenant in the army while studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in the winter of 1812-13. He participated in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, and was wounded by an explosion at Fort Niagara. He was promoted to be captain and brevetted major for gallant and meritorious conduct. After the war he completed his medical studies and practiced his profession in Kishacoquillas Valley. He was a Representative in Congress, 1833-7.

At the age of eleven years he removed from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, to Centre County. In the winters of 1812-13 he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of which institution he became a graduate. He also studied under the instructions of an elder brother, Dr. John Henderson, of Huntingdon County. It was while thus attending lectures that he received from the Secretary of War the appointment of first lieutenant in the Twenty-second Regiment. He opened a recruiting-office, and in the spring of 1813 marched his troops to Sackett's Harbor, where they joined the main army on the frontier. In the fall of 1813 he was promoted to captain, and in 1814 was brevetted major, with the command of a regiment. During his military career he was engaged in the battles of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and the siege of Fort Erie. After the close of the war he settled at Brown's Mills, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1850.
He then moved to Lewistown, and remained a citizen of the place down to December 25, 1863, when he died from the effects of injuries received fifty years before at Fort Niagara.
Dr. Henderson was, during his life, honored with high civil positions. He was one of the trustees of the State Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg. In 1832 and 1834 he was a member of Congress, and became intimately acquainted with the prominent men of the day, among whom could be mentioned Webster, Clay and Calhoun. As a physician, Dr. Henderson ranked among the first, and in his practice met with great success.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 200.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 824.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 149.

4 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 476.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1284.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 185.