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ARCHIBALD HENDERSON
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON was a well-known Virginia merchant, and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in 1787. His firm of Archibald Henderson & Co. were among the leading tobacco importers when the Chamber was founded. As a member of the Hodge Podge Club he has a stanza in Dr. Moore's famous song of the Club. It speaks of him as - "Begot, born, and bred in John Calvin's meek faith." He was a son of the Rev. Archibald Henderson of Blantyre. What the father's views had been, may be gathered from his having been one of the few ministers who gave a hand to Whitfield in the "Cambuslang wark." What the son's views were may be gathered from Dr. Moore's verses. Archibald Henderson has descendants through a son who settled in Virginia, but he has no representatives in this country. His son was Richard Henderson, Town-Clerk of Glasgow, who lived, as his father before him had done, in the tenement still standing at the south-west corner of Virginia Street.
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