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Name: HENDERSON, John Edmund (Dr.)
Birth Date: 29.3.1865 Glasgow
Death Date: 2.4.1930 Aiken, South Carolina
First Date: 1901 Dec.
Profession: Africa Inland Mission
Area: Kibichoi, Kambui, Ruiru
Married: In Freeborn, Minnesota 29.5.1903 Earlis V. Smith b. 6.2.1883 Minnesota, d. 25.6.1961 Aiken, S. Carolina
Book Reference: Red 25, Hut, Drumkey, Land, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Red Book 1912
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 Directory of Residents - J.E. Henderson, Kiambu
Land - 1908 - Dr. J.E. Henderson - Agricultural, 31.66 acres, Kambui Ruiro District, May 1903, Registered 13-3-08
EAHB 1906 - J.E. Henderson, Kambui
North - has John Eadie . AIM - On List of 'Non-Native Residents of Nairobi …. A I Mission, Ruveru, Kikuyu' (EAM) 5-9-1903; Kambui Mission Sept 1904
EAHB 1904 - Masai-Land District Residents - Henderson, Dr. J.E. - A.I. Mission, Ruveru, Kikuyu
Red Book 1912 - J.E. Henderson - Kyambu
Red Book 1912 - Africa Inland Mission - Kambui
Hut - J.E. Henderson 1908 Kiambu
Drumkey 1909 - African Inland Mission, 1906 - Dr. John Et. Henderson at Kambi, Kikuyu
EAHB 1905 has Dr. John E. Henderson at AIM Mission Kambui with his wife
See Evanson N. Wamagatta, The Presbyterian Church of East Africa, 2009, for establishment of mission. Says Henderson was Jamaican-born and naturalised as an American.