HENNINGER, JOSEPH BURNS: 1847-1943.
Born in Clinton County, Ind., in 1847, Joseph Burns Henninger was an orphan at nine years of age. During the Civil War, when he was thirteen years old, he enlisted in the Union forces, was sent home, and re-enlisted when he was sixteen. He graduated from Barnes Medical University in St. Louis in 1900 and practiced in the U. S. and Great Britain. He was forced to resign from the presidency of Riley Ophthalmology College in St. Louis because of ill health. In 1938, at the age of ninety-one, he was still active and had served eight years as Assistant Adjutant General and Assistant Quartermaster General of the Grand Army of the Republic, with offices in the State House in Indianapolis .
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- Crumbs. n.d.
