Albert T. Henderson, M. D. From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1004.

TOWN OF CLIFTON

ALBERT T. HENDERSON, M. D., Annaton; born in 1815, in Huntingdon Co., Penn.; was a son of John and Rebecca Henderson; lived with his parents until 22 years of age; was a graduate of the select academy at Huntingdon, Penn., and also a graduate at the medical college at Philadelphia; he began his practice in Huntingdon with his father, who was also a physician; then moved to Greene Co., Ohio, for two years; thence to Michigan for one year; thence to Illinois for seven years; thence to Austin, Tex., where he enlisted in the Mexican war and served one year, and in 1848, he came to Platteville, Grant Co., Wis., and in 1850, he went to California where he lived nineteen months, then returning to Grant Co., Wis., where he has since lived and followed his profession. He has been married three times, first in 1851, to Amanda Haywood, a daughter of Judge Haywood; second time to Mealie Barchar; was divorced from both of them; was married third time, in 1868, to Melissa A. Nealy, a daughter of Pierce Costley; have two children - Sarah M. and Margaret J. He enlisted in 1863, in the 3d W. V. I., Co. B; served nineteen months; was wounded in the mouth. Is a Republican.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.