John HENDERSON of Caskieben SCT [24330]
- Born: 1743
- Marriage (1): FARQUHARSON of Jamaica [24337] in Jamaica
- Marriage (2): Helen LESLIE [24331]
- Died: 1825 aged 82
 General Notes:
Caskieben
About 1790, the property was acquired, through purchase, by John Henderson, a native of the county, who in early life had gone to the West Indies and accumulated wealth. While in Jamaica he married Miss Farquharson, who died in Aberdeen in 1788 ; and he subsequently married as his second wife Miss Helen Leslie. By the first marriage he had a son, Alexander Farquharson Henderson, who graduated M.D. at Edinburgh, and became a physician in London. He succeeded as proprietor of Caskieben, aud, having independent means, devoted much attention to literature and horticulture. In 1857 he mortified to Marischal College and University £1000 Bank of England stock for the endowment of a chair of Medical Logic and Medical Jurisprudence. His valuable collection of books, portraits, etc., was bequeathed to the College Library and Museum. (Records of Marischal College and University, I., pp. 529-31-33.) He died on 16th Septem- ber, 1863, aged 83, when Caskieben passed to his half-brother, Dr William Henderson, a son of the second marriage above re- corded. In 1839 he was appointed to the Chair of Materia Medica in Marischal College. After his death his trustees, in 1880, sold the property to Lewis Miller, timber merchant, Crieff, and subsequently it was acquired by James Stephen of North Kinmundy, who died on 12th January, 1902, aged 79. His widow, Mrs Elizabeth Stephen or Wilson, who died on 23rd March following, left estate exceeding £70,000. Besides other handsome bequests to public institutions, she directed Caskieben to be held by her trustees, and the free income applied for benevolent and educational purposes.
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John married FARQUHARSON of Jamaica [24337] [MRIN: 8761] in Jamaica. (FARQUHARSON of Jamaica [24337] died in 1788 in Aberdeen Scotland.)
John next married Helen LESLIE [24331] [MRIN: 8760]. (Helen LESLIE [24331] was born in 1750 and died in 1825.)
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