Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — AUDITOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AUDITOR.

John Oscar Henderson was born in the village of New London, Howard county, Isd., forty-four years ago. At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion the Henderson family moved to Kokomo, where they have since resided. In 1876, in conjunction with his brother and present partner, Howard, Mr. Henderson took hold of the Kokomo Dispatch, the first and only Democratic paper in Howard county. He discovered and brought to state notoriety Mary Hartwell Catherwood, now noted as a magazine writer; but perhaps his greatest literary achievement was the publication in 1877 of James Whitcomb Riley’s poem, “Leonainie,” as a posthumous poem of .Edgar Allan Poe. This poem at once gave Mr. Riley a national fame, and has been printed, it is said, in every tongue in Chpstendom. Mr. Henderson managed Hon. John W. Kern’s campaign for reporter of the supreme court in 1884, and was largely instrumental in his nomination. In 1885 President Cleveland appointed him collector of the Eleventh internal revenue district of Indiana, which position he held until the consolidation of the districts two years later. He served his party for years as chairman of the county central committee, and in 1888 was a member of the executive committee of the Democratic state central committee. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1888; was secretary of the Indiana convention, and also an assistant secretary of the national convention. In 1889 he was elected president of the Democratic Editorial association. Two years ago he was nominated by his party for auditor of state, and at the election that year received the third highest vote cast for any candidate. He is a member of the press club, the Hendricks flub, the Cleveland club, and the Commercial club, of Indianapolis. He is a Scottish Rite, or 32 degree, Mason. He was renominated by acclamation.

JOHN OSCAR HENDERSON.