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Source: See Full Citation Below Biography
Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

ELBERT A. HENRY.
    Elbert A. Henry is the junior partner in the law firm of Rogers, Barber &
Henry, constituting a legal connection of force and power at the Little Rock
bar. He has now practiced for seven years, ability bringing him steadily to the
front. The only interruption to his professional activity came through his
service as a soldier of the World war. Mr. Henry was born in Jacksonville,
Pulaski county, Arkansas, October 3, 1889, and is one of a family of five sons
and two daughters, whose parents were Marion Jackson and Marian Frances
(Nichols) Henry. The father was born in Pontotoc county, Mississippi, February
11, 1847, and in his boyhood days removed to Arkansas, settling in Pulaski
county, where he continued to make his home to the time of his death, residing
for many years in Jacksonville, where he engaged in merchandising. In politics
he was a democrat. His military record covered service as a private during the
last six months of the Civil war. He died June 1, 1918, and is still survived by
his wife. She was born near Charleston, South Carolina, September 12, 1852, a
daughter of Edmund Nichols, who was born in South Carolina and became a
Confederate soldier of the Civil war, being killed in battle in Arkansas in
1863. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Jackson Henry there were born five
sons and two daughters, and four of the sons of the family are living.

    Elbert A. Henry, the youngest member of the household, obtained his early
education in the public schools and afterward became a, pupil in the preparatory
department of the University of Arkansas. His college training was there
received and in 1914 he was graduated from the University of Arkansas with the
Bachelor of Arts degree. The succeeding year was devoted to the teaching of
economics in Barton Academy, Mobile, Alabama. Later he began the study of law
and was graduated from the Arkansas Law School with the LL. B. degree in 1916.
Through the intervening period to the present time, covering six years, he has
engaged in law practice and is now identified with one of the strongest and most
prominent law firms of the city, that of Rogers, Barber & Henry.

    On the 22d of October, 1920, Mr. Henry was married to Miss Mary Garrett
Cargile, who was born on the 1st of January, 1899, in Cardile, Union county,
Arkansas, a daughter of John Stark Cargile, a native of Clark county, Arkansas,
and now residing in Arkadelphia, Clark county. Mrs. Henry was accorded liberal
educational opportunities and is a graduate of Ouachita College, in which she
completed her course in 1919.

    After America's advent into the World war, Mr. Henry enlisted for service
and became a member of the One Hundred and Sixty-second Depot Brigade at Camp
Pike, where he served with the rank of first lieutenant, receiving his honorable
discharge on the 11th of December, 1918, one month after the signing of the
armistice. His political endorsement has always been given to the democratic
party and fraternally he is a prominent Mason, having attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has
crossed the sands of the desert. He likewise belongs to the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and his religious faith guides him in all of his
relations, he being a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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