Marshall County AlArchives Biographies.....Henry, Albert G. December 5, 1816 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 495

Albert G. Henry, one of the oldest and most respected merchants of northeastern 
Alabama, is a native of Tennessee, born in Sevier county, December 5, 1816.  
His education was limited to the primitive schools of his native county.  He 
came with his father, Hugh Henry, to Alabama at the age of twelve years.  His 
father opened a mercantile house in Jackson county, and at the age of eigheen 
[sic] years the son entered the store as a clerk.  At the age of twenty he was 
given an interest in the concern, and five years later he went into business 
for himself, and with the exception of two years during the war, he has been 
since that time a merchant at Guntersville.  Before the war he had control of 
almost the entire patronage at that point, and was the first man in Alabama to 
introduce the continued credit system, by which he carried his patrons, rich 
and poor, upon his books from year to year, and upon the close of the war his 
patrons being nearly all financially broken up, he, with the protection 
furnished by the crop mortgage law now in vogue in the south, was enabled to 
advance nearly $50,000 of goods to his patrons without serious loss to 
himself.  For some years he had been recognized as one of the most reliable and 
substantial business men of the south.  He has acquired large wealth by his 
astute business qualities, thrift and energy.  He was married first, August 
8th, 1838, to Mary Ann Henry of Tennessee, who became the mother of eight 
children and died December 31, 1884, at the age of sixty-four years.  The 
present wife was Mrs. Julia Waitt, née Julia Brown.  The following memoranda is 
made of Mr. Henry’s children:  Wallas H., deceased; Hugh, Margaret, wife of Dr. 
Clifton, of Waco, Tex.; Mary, wife of Dr. J. Miller; Sallie B., wife of J. D. 
Bell, of Texas; Albert G., Jr. and Samuel.  Mr. Henry is a communicant of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife of the Christian.

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