Dr. Cornelius Hendrickson

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Husband Dr. Cornelius Hendrickson ¹

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1 F Betsey Hendrickson ²

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         Spouse: James Cameron (      -      ) 2

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2 M Oakey Hendrickson ³

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3 M Daniel Hendrickson ³

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4 M Thomas Hendrickson ³

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5 M Cornelius Hendrickson, Jr. ³

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6 F Lena Hendrickson ⁴

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         Spouse: William Munnel (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Cornelius Hendrickson

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He was the first physician to settle in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, coming there in 1797 with two other families from Pennsville, New Jersey. Indians were very numerous about the region, and Betsey Hendrickson received a severe fright from one of them, when she was driving the cows home from their pasturing ground; she was never sent alone on such an errand again.

He served through the Revolutionary War. He retained his vigor to an extreme old age, and when ninety-five years of age rode six miles on horse-back to set a broken leg.

Cornelius Hendrickson and Daniel Hendrickson, father and son, built two cabins on the west bank of the Shenango, in what became the township of Union. They also established a ferry over the Shenango at what was later the west end of North street.

He settled on the west side of the Shenango River, near the site later occupied by the glass works. His son, Daniel, lived farther down the river. Cornelius Hendrickson made claim, in 1798, of all the gore known as the "vacancy," lying west of the Shenango River, which contained over 117 acres of land. He had merely squatted on it. He appears to have had a sort of certificate of pre-emption to something over fifty acres of it, issued in 1800. It is probable that his son, Oakey Hendrickson, obtained possession of one-half of the whole claim, for in 1818 George McDowell, said to have been a son-in-law of Oakey, and Ebenezer Byers, came into possession of it and made an equitable division, afterwards obtaining a patent for the whole.
Cornelius Hendrickson was something of a practitioner of medicine, and was given, by courtesy, the title of "Doctor." His remedies were derived largely from among the roots and herbs of the country, and he is said to have been an excellent nurse. He is also credited with some slight knowledge of surgery. He had a good deal of the character of Daniel Boone in his composition, not liking the restraints of civilization, and when New Castle began to assume the appearance of a town he quietly departed for a newer country in the West.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 64, 290.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 64.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 55.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 53.