Ralph M. Henderson, Sulphur Springs, TX., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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Ralph M. Henderson, secretary of the Louisiana State Life Insurance 

Company at Shreveport, has had a veteran's experience in insurance, 

though his own life measures not yet two score years.



He was born in Sulphur Springs, Texas. in 1886 son of R. M. and 

Virginia C. (Beck) Henderson.  His father was for many years a 

prominent figure in the public life of Texas.  During the Cleveland 

administration he was collector of internal revenue for the northern 

district of Texas, with headquarters at Dallas.



Ralph M. Henderson was a child when his parents removed to Dallas,

 and after a public school education he was almost immediately 

inducted into the life insurance business.  He was a youth of 

about seventeen when, in 1903, he entered the Dallas office of 

William H. (Billy) Patterson, a veteran insurance man of Texas, 

who for a long number of years has been general agent for the 

Hartford Life.  From Dallas Mr. Henderson went to El Paso, where 

he became associated with the Two Republics Life Insurance Company.  

In 1911 he moved to Shreveport to assist in the organization of the 

Louisiana State Life Insurance Company, and was made its first and 

so far its only secretary.  This is a regular old line legal reserve 

insurance company, and from the start has built steadily increasing 

resources, and an enlarging scope of business extending all over 

the South and Southwest.  Its officers and directors include many 

of the prominent citizens of Shreveport and Northern Louisiana,



Mr. Henderson is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.

He married Miss Nelle Crump, of Oklahoma, and they have one son, 

Billy Henderson.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 138, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.