From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 526 - 527
 
SAMUEL WIRT HENDERSON, son of Dr. John M. and first wife, Rebecca WIRT, was 
born at Willoughby, December 17, 1817; studied in his father's office and was 
graduated from the medical college at Cleveland.  He married, January 11, 1845, 
Rebecca, daughter of Nathan HICKS.  After practicing in Herkimer county (once 
his father's home) and in northern Ohio he came in 1847 to Elkhorn.  He died 
May 6, 1857, having a week before jumped from a wagon to hard ground, causing 
intestinal constriction or intussusception, followed by inflammation.  Doctor 
HENDERSON's perception was quick, his mind active, and his action prompt, and 
he was rated among the better county physicians and surgeons.  He was also a 
working Democrat and persecuted opponents with unbridled tongue, vitriol-dipped 
pen, and jack-knife wickeder than tongue or pen; for it made caricatures on 
pine as ugly as modern exaggerations in the Sunday papers.  His knife and pen 
were voluntary contributors to his friend UTTER's paper.  He left three little 
boys, of whom, John Hicks, the eldest, was a soldier of Company B First Heavy 
Artillery.
 
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