Isaac Henderson

Isaac Austin Henderson (1850 – March 31, 1909) was an American newspaperman and writer.

Early life

Henderson was born in Brooklyn in 1850 and was the son of Isaac Henderson (1814–1884) and Margaret (née Johnston) Henderson (1818–1873).[1] He had three sisters,[2] including elder sister, Josephine Wheaton Henderson, was married to Col. Henry Cary Weir, of West Point in 1865.[3] During President Abraham Lincoln's presidency, his father was appointed Navy Agent in May 1861, "thereby becoming both a civilian employee of the Navy Department and a disbursing officer of the government subject to Treasury Department supervision."[4] In 1864, his father was arrested and tried for issuing false vouchers when he was Navy Agent.[5] After a well publicized trial,[6][7][8] he was found not guilty on technical grounds.[4]

After an early education in private schools and under tutors, he graduated from Williams College with the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, and Doctor of Civil Law.

Career

In 1872, Henderson became connected with the New York Evening Post, becoming assistant publisher in 1875, and from 1877 was publisher, stockholder, and member of the Board of Trustees. The Post was owned by his father in partnership with William Cullen Bryant, the editor-in-chief, and John Bigelow (who sold his interest after Lincoln's election when he became a diplomat). His father had first joined the Post as a clerk in 1839, before becoming bookkeeper and, later, manager of a printing shop which allowed him to buy a one-third interest in the partnership that controlled the Post in 1854. His father's career at the Post ended in 1878 when an investigation revealed he had defrauded Bryant for thirty years.[4]

Henderson sold his interest in the Evening Post in 1881, he went to Europe and lived in London and Rome. In 1896, he became a Roman Catholic, adopting the name of Austin at his Confirmation. In 1903 he was appointed private chamberlain to Pope Pius X.

Published works

In 1886, Henderson published his first novel, The Prelate, and followed it two years later with Agatha Page.[9] The latter, soon (1892) dramatized as The Silent Battle, was produced by Sir Charles Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre, London, another dramatic version, entitled Agatha, being produced the same year at the Boston Museum. His second drama, The Mummy and the Humming Bird, was presented at Wyndham's Theatre, 1901, the principal male part being again taken by Wyndham.[10][11] In 1902 it was played at the Empire Theatre, New York.

Personal life

Henderson was the father of Ruth Henderson (d. 1933), who married Hon. Walter Patrick Lindsay (1873–1936), third son of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, in 1902 at the Dominican Convent in Rome.[12][13] Ruth and Walter divorced in 1927.[14]

Henderson died in Rome on March 31, 1909.[15][16]

Descendants

Through his daughter Ruth, he was a grandfather of Kenneth Andrew Lindsay (1903–1970) and Margaret Elspeth Lindsay (1905–1974). Kenneth married Kathleen Mary Lovemore (daughter of H. E. Lovemore) and Margaret married George Shirley Rawlings, son of the Rev. George William Rawlings and brother of actress Margaret Rawlings.[17]

References
  1. Dearinger, Kevin Lane (2016). Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre: An Olive in the Cocktail. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-61147-948-5. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  2. "Isaac Henderson". The New York Times. 14 November 1884. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  3. "MARRIED -- WEIR -- HENDERSON". The New York Times. 30 June 1865. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  4. Mayer-Sommer, Alan P. (May 2010). "So many controls; so little control: The case of Isaac Henderson, Navy Agent at New York, 1861-4". Accounting History. 15 (2): 173–198. doi:10.1177/1032373209359324. ISSN 1032-3732. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  5. "ARREST OF THE NAVY AGENT.; Isaac Henderson in Custody on Charge of Issuing False Vouchers". The New York Times. 23 June 1864. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  6. "The Henderson Trial.; MOTION TO QUASH THE INDICTMENT. Decisions. COMMON PLEAS MAY 23". The New York Times. 24 May 1865. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  7. "THE HENDERSON TRIAL.; United States Circuit Court Second Day's Proceedings Two Sessions, but No Work.Mysterious Absence of the Foreman of the Jury The Judge, the Bar, the U.S. Marshal, and the Detectives Fail to Find Him". The New York Times. 25 May 1865. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  8. "TRIAL OF ISAAC HENDERSON.; Evidence of H.D. Stover, Mr. Brown, and Two Bank-Tellers. Legal Difficulties Bar the Introductiun of Evidence--The Case Withdrawn and an Acduittal Ordered. FOURTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.Hon. Justice Nelson presiding. CONTINUED TESTIMONY OF H.D. STOVER. TESTIMONY OF MR. AINSWORTH BROWN. TESTIMONY OF ISSAC G. LEGGATT. TESTIMONY OF ISAAC G. LEGGATT. ADDRESS OF JUDGE NELSON. A LITTLE HISTORY". The New York Times. 27 May 1865. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  9. "The Literary News: A Monthly Journal of Current Literature". F. Leypoldt. 1889: 392. Retrieved 15 July 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. "A Play by Isaac Henderson". The New York Times. 22 March 1901. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  11. E.A.D, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES (11 October 1901). "ISAAC HENDERSON'S PLAY.; "The Mummy and the Humming Bird" Produced at Wyndhan's Theatre, London". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  12. "What Is Doing in Society". The New York Times. 27 December 1902. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  13. "Married - LINDSAY-HENDERSON". The New York Times. 27 December 1902. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  14. "Crawford, Earl of (S, 1398)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  15. "Isaac Henderson". The Brooklyn Citizen. 2 April 1909. p. 2. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  16. "Burlington Obit". Burlington Daily News. 3 April 1909. p. 4. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  17. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1973. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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