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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Isaac G. HENDERSON 

[Surnames: DEAKIN, FAST, HENDERSON, LARKIN] 

HENDERSON, ISAAC G. 

    
The activity of Isaac G. Henderson spanned many years of central Western history and has embraced success in blacksmithing, agriculture and politics. Arriving in Bernadotte, IL, as a rugged lad of fifteen, he first of all was useful in building the log cabin which was to shelter the family from the heat of summer, and cold of winter. A year later he moved to Sect. 2, Cass Twp., Fulton Co., where his father, Mason T. Henderson, entered 320 acres. The elder Henderson was born in Virginia, moved at an early date to Fayette, Co., OH, and there married Catherine LARKIN of that State. In Fayette Co., Isaac G. was born Dec. 19, 1828, and they remained until their removal by wagon to Illinois in 1843. The Cass Twp. farm proved a profitable investment and they soon added 120 acres, which gave them in all 420 in all, with which to pursue farming and stock-raising. Mason T. Henderson achieved prominence as a farmer and politician, and served his township as Justice of the Peace and Highway Commissioner. His death occurred in 1884. 
    
At the age of twenty-one, Isaac G. Henderson left home and learned the blacksmith trade which he followed until 1855, in which year he married Elizabeth FAST, a native of Licking Co., OH, born June 9, 1827. The young couple began housekeeping on 80 acres purchased by Mr. Henderson in Cass Twp., and in 1857 he added 120 acres more on which they carried on general farming and stock-raising until the retirement of Mr. Henderson in 1886. Since then the family home has been in Cuba. The children in the family are:
Nelson, Arthur, Mary, Alice (wife of Mr. DEAKIN), Fred, and James. 
    
Like his father, Mr. Henderson has ranged his political preferences on the side of the Democratic Party, and has served as Supervisor, Road Commissioner, School Director, Constable, and Justice of the Peace. Mr. Henderson is popular and agreeable, and at the age of seventy- eight, retain his physical and mental vigor, and his interest in the larger undertakings of the infant century.