Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Henderson, Charles D. July 29 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    CHARLES D. HENDERSON, a popular and successful business man of Brewton, and
United States commissioner for the southern district of Alabama, was born in the
town of Sparta, this state, on the 29th day of July, 1848. He is the son of the
late Judge John M. Henderson, and brother of Dr. Stephen C. Henderson, notices
of whose lives appear in the following sketch. Mr. Henderson, at the age of
sixteen, entered the State university at Tuscaloosa, but was not permitted to
pursue his studies for any considerable length of time, owing to the invasion of
the state by the Federal army, when the institution was broken up, and the
buildings burned. Returning home, he accepted a clerkship in a general store in
Belleville, and later was similarly employed at the town of Sparta, until 1867,
at which time he entered into partnership in the mercantile business with his
father at Castleberry, Conecuh county, with the commercial interests of which
place he was identified, until his removal to the town of Sparta. The firm of
Henderson & Son was maintained until 1869, in which year the father engaged in
the milling business at Millview, Fla., and Charles D. entered the employ of the
L. & N. railroad company as agent at Sparta. Later he spent one year in the
employ of Goldsmith & Co., merchants at Pensacola, Fla., and on the death of his
father, he, in connection with the latter's partner, closed up the milling
business at Millview. Up to 1888, Mr. Henderson was actively engaged in the
lumber trade and merchandising, principally the latter, and in 1888, was made
manager of the Peters Lumber company at Alco, which he managed very successfully
until 1891. In March of that year he was appointed by Judge H. L. Toulmin, of
the United States district court at Mobile, United States commissioner for the
southern district of Alabama, of which responsible position he is the present
incumbent. Mr. Henderson is a shrewn business man, possesses a large amount of
energy and determination, and his life is one round of unceasing activity. As a
citizen he is public spirited and liberal, popular with all classes, and as an
official, discharges the duties of his position with credit to himself, and
satisfaction to the department of the government by which he is employed. In
politics an ardent democrat, he has never sought office, and in religion a
Methodist, he is broad-minded and liberal, belongs to the K. of H., K. of P.,
and K. & L. of H. orders, in the local lodges of which at Brewton he is an
active worker. In the year 1879, in Conecuh county, Ala., Mr. Henderson and
Alice, daughter of Basil Bell, were made man and wife, and to their union have
been born the following children: Alice B., deceased; Katy, Grover Cleveland and
Charles D.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 968, 971
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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