Charles Richmond Henderson (1848–1915) was an American

United States

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 sociologist

Sociology

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Biography

Born in Covington, Indiana

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, he graduated at the University of Chicago

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 in 1870 and at Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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 in 1873. From 1873 to 1883 he was pastor

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 at Terre Haute, Indiana

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 and from 1883 to 1892 at Detroit.

Appointed in 1892 assistant professor of sociology

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 at Chicago University

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, he was afterward advanced to the full professor

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ship. In 1898-99 he was president of the National Conference of Charities, in 1902 president of the National Prison Association, and in 1910 of the International Prison Congress. In 1907 he served as secretary of the Illinois

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 Commission on Occupational Diseases. He died in 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)