Charles Richmond Henderson (1848–1915) was an American

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minister and sociologist. After being a pastor for nearly 20 years in Terre Haute and Detroit, he took an appointment as an assistant professor of sociology at the

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, where he became a tenured professor. He published several works on society in the United States, the prison system, and the sociology of charities.

Biography

Born in Covington,

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, on December 17, 1848, he graduated at the

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with a

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degree 1870 and a

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degree in 1873. He earned his

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degree at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary in 1873 and was ordained as a minister. From 1873 to 1883 Henderson was

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, Indiana, and from to 1892 at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in

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. Appointed in 1892 assistant professor of

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at the

, he was afterward advanced to a full

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ship. In 1898-99 he was president of the National Conference of Charities, in 1902 president of the

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, and in 1910 of the

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. In 1907 he served as secretary of the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases. He died in Charleston,

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, on March 29, 1915.

Publications

His works include: * ''The Development of Doctrine in the Epistles'' (1894) * ''The Social Spirit in America'' (1896) * ''Social Settlements'' (1897) * ''Social Elements'' (1898) * ''An Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Classes'' (1898; second edition, enlarged, 1901) * ''Modern Prison Systems'' (57th Congress, 2d Session, House Document No. 452, 1903) * ''Modern Methods of Charity'' (1904) * ''Industrial Insurance in the United States'' (1907) * ''Social Duties from a Christian Point of View'' (1909) * ''Education in Relation to Sex'' (1909) * ''Social Programmes of the West'' (1913)

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