This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yNi.2ACEB/5410 Message Board Post: From Ancestry.com's "Biographies of Notable Americans-1904": HENDERSON, Leonard, jurist, was born in Granville county, N.C., Oct. 6, 1772; son of Judge Richard and Elizabeth (Keeling) Henderson. He was admitted to the bar in 1794 and was clerk of the district court of Hillsborough until|P196|p1800. He then practised law and also conducted a successful and celebrated law school, 1808-33. He was judge of the superior court of North Carolina, 1808-18, an associate justice of the supreme court, 1818-29, and chief justice, 1829-33. He died near Williamsboro, N.C., Aug. 13, 1833 Deloris Williams