Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — A CONGRESSMAN’S AFFLICTION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A CONGRESSMAN’S AFFLICTION.

Mr. Must Soon Submit to the Operation of Amputation. Congressman David Bremner Henderson of Dubuque, lowa, must soon submit to the operation of amputation of the leg at the knee, as the result of an old wound received iu buttle. Mr. Henderson was living on an lowa farm when the war broke out. He was just 21 and enlisted

as a private in the Twelfth lowa Volunteers. He became a lieutenant in that regiment. In 1863 he received a wound below the knee. The leg was cut off at the wound, but it never quite healed. Yet he returned to the army in 1864 and came out as a colonel. After the war Mr. Henderson studied law. He was assistant United States district attorney for two years. His law connection has always been with the firm of Henderson, Hurd, Lenehan & Kissel. He has been elected to every Congress since and including the Forty-eighth. Mr. Henderson used an artificial leg and has always suffered from the wound he got in the army. His strong constitution has carried him through, but now a new operation is necessary, which will, it is hoped, cure the trouble.

DAVID B. HENDERSON.