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Daniel McIntyre Henderson was born on July 10, 1851 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the son of Thomas and Margaret Henderson. An easy distance from the city lay Blackhill Locks, and thither the family removed ten years later.
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Daniel McIntyre Henderson was born on July 10, 1851 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the son of Thomas and Margaret Henderson. An easy distance from the city lay Blackhill Locks, and thither the family removed ten years later.
The new neighborhood possessed no educational facilities, and young Henderson was obliged to attend the parish school of Saint Enoch in Glasgow, walking there each morning, and returning home each afternoon.
After leaving school Henderson took a situation in a wholesale draper's shop with the intention of learning the business. He presently relinquished it, however, and, after filling two or three other positions, accepted that of bookkeeper to the Scottish Permissive Bill and Temperance Association.
In 1873, he emigrated to the United States, and established a permanent home in Baltimore. In Baltimore, after acting for some years as bookkeeper to a firm of furniture manufacturers, he became a bookseller, and for the rest of his life was the proprietor of the University Book Store, on the corner of Howard and Madison Streets.
The little shop became a stopping place for the professors connected with the Johns Hopkins University, which was close at hand. Students strolled in to buy, and to ask the modest, mild-eyed man for his quaint and wise opinions upon their purchases.
Every Scotchman is at heart a poet, and in 1888 Henderson published a collection of poetry, under the title of Poems, Scottish and American, and in 1905, a second volume, called A Bit Bookie of Verse. These ventures brought him new friends, in all parts of the country. James Whitcomb Riley, coming into the shop one day, went out of it his enthusiastic brother-in-verse. Stevenson, Stedman, Whittier, and Lowell wrote him warm and appreciative letters. His walks back and forth to Saint Enoch school had given his sensitive spirit opportunity for mature thought, for recalling scraps of Burns's and other poets' verse, and for stringing together musical words of his own. All these went into the developing and nourishing of his poetic gift.
His songs are simple, direct, spontaneous. Perhaps this very spontaneity at times produces an over-facility of expression. As a whole they are delicate in feeling, and full of touching lines. A gift of the old west-country flowers, imperially purple, impelled him to write "The Heather"; the sight of pink-petaled blossoms coming up in a Baltimore public square resulted in "Daisies in Baltimore. " The latter poem, together with many of the others, is written in Scottish dialect. These, along with much else in the two small books, hold the essence and flavor of real poetry.
He died in the Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore, after a two-weeks' illness of typhoid fever.
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Henderson was a deacon in the Associate Congregational Church.
Henderson was not only a poet and a scholar, but an alert citizen interested in public matters, a member of the Saint Andrew's Society, and, at his death, its president.
Henderson was a modest and mild-eyed man. His poetry reveals him as a gentle-natured and devout man, with an intense affection for both the Old World and the New, and for humble and lovely things.
He was a bookish man, and his knowledge of literature, particularly of that directly connected with poetry, was broad and deep.
In 1876 Henderson married Alice M. Ashcroft. Of this union six sons and four daughters were born.