Charles Richmond Henderson

Charles Richmond Henderson (1848–1915) was an American Baptist 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 University of Chicago, where he became a tenured professor. He published several works on society in the United States, the prison system, and the sociology of charities.

The Reverend Charles Richmond Henderson
Born	(1848-12-17)December 17, 1848 Covington, Indiana, US
Died	March 29, 1915(1915-03-29) (aged 66) Charleston, South Carolina, US
Spouse	Ella L. Levering ​ (m. 1873)​
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Baptist)
Ordained	c. 1873
Academic background
Alma mater	Old University of Chicago Baptists Union Theological Seminary Leipzig University
Influences	Albert Schäffle
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
School or tradition	Chicago school
Institutions	University of Chicago
Doctoral students	W. I. Thomas
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Biography

Born in Covington, Indiana, on December 17, 1848, he graduated at the Old University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree 1870 and a Master of Arts degree in 1873. He earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary in 1873 and was ordained as a minister. From 1873 to 1883 Henderson was pastor at Terre Haute, Indiana, and from c. 1883 to 1892 at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit.

Appointed in 1892 assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, he was afterward advanced to a full professorship. 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 Commission on Occupational Diseases.

He died in Charleston, South Carolina, 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)

See also

• Chautauqua
• Social Gospel

References

Bibliography

• Abbott, Andrew (2009). "Organizations and the Chicago School". In Adler, Paul (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 399–420. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199535231.003.0018. ISBN 978-0-19-953523-1.
•  ———  (2010). "Pragmatic Sociology and the Public Sphere: The Case of Charles Richmond Henderson". Social Science History. 34 (3): 337–371. doi:10.1017/S0145553200011299. ISSN 1527-8034. JSTOR 40927616. S2CID 151473284.
• The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. 11. New York: James T. White & Company. 1901. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
• Schäfer, Axel R. (2000). American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875–1920: Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-07461-2.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Guide to the Charles Richmond Henderson Papers 1902-1910 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• Charles Richmond Henderson at Find a Grave