"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 479.
 
REV. ENOCH P. HENDERSON
     Born in Callaway county, Missouri, July 24, 1818.  When about 15 years old
his parents took him to Jackson county in that State.  He entered the Waynesburg
college in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated on the twenty-sixth
of September, 1855.  In 1856 he crossed the isthmus to California, stopping a
short time in Sonoma.  Sonoma county, after which he came to Eugene City,
arriving August 26, 1856.  Here he took charge of the Columbia College for three
years.  He then returned to California, settled at Healdsburg, but came back to
Oregon in 1862, going to Harrisburg, where he was principal of the academy at
that place.  At the close of the academical year he went to Belpassi, where he
combined the duties of pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church with that of
teaching a graded school for a period of two years.  Returning to Eugene City,
he taught an independent graded school for three years, then went to Philomath,
where he was acting president and teacher in the college at that place, again
coming to Eugene City after one year.  In 1864, he was elected chief clerk of
the Oregon State senate.  In 1870 he took the census of Lane county, and
afterwards wrote a series of articles on its resources for the Oregonian.  He
married Elizabeth Schroyer, March 26, 1850.  They have five children.
 
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