Charles Richmond Henderson

Charles Richmond Henderson (1848 to 1915) was an American Baptist minister and sociologist. Born in Covington, Indiana, he graduated from the Old University of Chicago in 1870 and took his Bachelor of Divinity at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary in 1873, then served as a pastor in Terre Haute, Indiana, and at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit for nearly twenty years. In 1892 he became assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, where he was later made full professor. He published on American society, the prison system and the sociology of charities, and was president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction (1898 to 1899), the National Prison Association (1902) and the International Prison Congress (1910). His works include The Social Spirit in America (1896), Social Settlements (1897), An Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Classes (1898), Modern Prison Systems (1903) and Social Duties from a Christian Point of View (1909). He died in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1915.