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Memorial Charles R. Henderson

Statistician and animal scientist, Charles R. Henderson, a leading developer of methods for mixed linear models and a pioneer in methods for the genetic improvement of dairy cattle, died March 14 in Urbana, Illinois after a brief illness. He was 77 years old.

Henderson was borin in Coin, Iowa. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1933, a master's degree in 1935, and a doctoral degree in 1948, all from Iowa State University. Henderson was employed by the Iowa Extension Service from 1935 to 1940, was an instructor at Ohio University in 1941 and 1942, and served as a first lieutenant, captain, and major in the US army from 1942 to 1946.

From 1948 until his retirement in 1976, when he was named Professor Emeritus, he was Professor in the Department of Animal Science in the New York State College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at Cornell, where he headed the division of animal breeding.