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==Notable people== [[Image:DBurnhamChildhoodHome HendersonNY2.jpg|thumb|right|275px|[[NortonβBurnham House]], the birthplace of [[Daniel Burnham]] in Henderson]] *[[Joseph Hawkins (New York politician)|Joseph Hawkins]], (1781 – 1832) United States Representative *[[Charles Grandison Finney|Charles G. Finney]], (1792 β 1875) Presbyterian minister, revivalist, abolitionist, [[coeducation]]alist, and 2nd president of [[Oberlin College]] *[[Hiram Barney]], (1811 β 1895) lawyer and [[abolitionist]] *[[Horatio N. Davis]], (1812 β 1907) member of the [[Wisconsin State Senate]] *[[Cyrus H. Wheelock]], (1813 β 1894) early Mormon missionary and hymn writer *[[Mark Hopkins Jr.|Mark Hopkins]], (1813 β 1878) [[railroad magnate]], one of the "[[Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad)|Big Four]]" behind the [[Central Pacific Railroad]] *[[Buel Hutchinson]], (1826 β 1903) politician and lawyer *[[John Watson Foster]], (1836 – 1913) U.S. Secretary of State, ambassador and military officer, summered in Henderson Harbor<ref>Haddock, John A. (1895). ''The Growth of a Century As Illustrated in the History of Jefferson County, New York, from 1793-1894,'' Weed-Parsons Printing Company, Albany, NY, p. 574</ref> *[[Cushman Kellogg Davis]], (1838 β 1900) son of Horatio N. Davis, governor and U.S. senator from Minnesota *[[George Wilbur Peck]], (1840 β 1916) governor of [[Wisconsin]], mayor of [[Milwaukee]], newspaper publisher and author of "[[Peck's Bad Boy]]" stories *[[Daniel Burnham]], (1846 β 1912) architect of several famous buildings, including the [[Flatiron Building]] in New York City, [[Washington Union Station|Union Station]] in Washington D.C., the [[One Calvert Plaza|Continental Trust Company Building]] tower skyscraper in Baltimore (now One South Calvert Plaza), and a number of notable skyscrapers in [[Chicago]]; urban planner of numerous cities *[[John Foster Dulles]], (1888 β 1959) United States Senator and U.S. Secretary of State, summered at Henderson Harbor. *[[Allen Dulles]], (1893 β 1969) first civilian director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], summered at Henderson Harbor.<ref>Ferrell, Robert H. (1963). ''The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy: John Foster Dulles'' Cooper Square Publishers, New York, NY, p. 4</ref> *[[Eleanor Lansing Dulles]], (1895 β 1996) author, professor, and Government envoy. *[[Craig Conroy]], professional ice hockey player, two-time Olympian, and current assistant general manager of the [[Calgary Flames]] of the [[National Hockey League]].
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