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Source: Vol. II  pg.113  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        GREENVILLE T. HENDERSON. The worth of personality is being more and
more recognized, and those fortunate enough to possess this quality in a strong
degree are liable to be the ones who have risen high in the confidence and
esteem of their fellowmen. This trait of character enters into the prosecution
of every line of business, the following of all of the learned professions, and
no statesman ever came into power who did not possess it. Through a strong and
convincing personality a man makes friends, inspires confidence, and creates a
demand for what he is selling, whether it be brains, merchandise, real estate,
insurance, experience, knowledge of men and affairs, or all or some of these
combined. One of the men who has risen to a high position at Tampa by reason of
his personality, which has enabled him to make a favorable impression and
convince easily and readily the public of his honest sincerity, is GREENVILLE
T. HENDERSON, one of the leading realtors of Hillsborough County.
	GREENVILLE T. HENDERSON was born at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, July 5, 
1872, a son of WILLIAM PENN and LOU (PRUETT) HENDERSON, natives of Tennessee, 
who are both deceased. They were the parents of nine children, of whom 
Greenville T. was the seventh child. Growing up in his native city, GREENVILLE 
T. HENDERSON attended its public schools and later Union University. For a time 
he was a farmer, and then was employed in the local tax office in a clerical 
position for fourteen years. In 1902 he came to Tampa, and as bookkeeper for 
the Tampa Real Estate & Loan Association, entered upon the work for which he 
was so eminently fitted, and found in it his true vocation. In 1909 he bought 
the business, and has since conducted it, and has made it one of the potent 
factors in the realty business of this region. However, Mr. Henderson has not 
confined his activities to this one line, for he has branched out and 
interested himself in agriculture and horticulture, and is entering the orange 
industry, having just completed planting a seventy-acre grove, and owns a 
bearing grove ten miles out of Tampa and another eight miles away from the 
city. His residence at 901 S. Newport Street is a fine $40,000 home, and he 
owns other realty at Tampa, stock in a banking institution and an interest in a 
hardware house. In fact he is one of the very substantial men of Tampa, and has 
made all his money himself. Fraternally he maintains membership with the 
Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
	In 1893 Mr. Henderson was united in marriage with LEO BIVINS, of
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and they have one son and two daughters, namely:
GREENVILLE T., Jr.; Mrs. BRANDON HAYNES of Tampa, and Mrs. HENRY GIDDENS, Jr.,
of Tampa. For seven years Mr. Henderson served as a member of the City Council,
in the last year was its president. It is a remarkable fact that a man could
come into a new territory, enter an entirely new line of business, and achieve
such a remarkable success, and it is likely he could not have accomplished
nearly as much if it had not been for the fact that he did possess a somewhat
remarkable personality, and fortunately entered a business where he could make
this quality count for something and win him the results to which he was
entitled.


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