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.

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

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)