Biography

09/06/1859 - 11/09/1951

HENDERSON, Joseph B., a Representative from Fayette County; born, September 6, 1859 in Worthington, Armstrong County, Pa.; attended, Frazier Business College, WV; engaged, coal and coke business; store manager then superintendent, W. J. Rainey (1887-1915); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1922; reelected and served 4 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1932); died, November 9, 1951 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; interred, Bowman-Flatwoods Cemetery, Vanderbilt, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.