Biography of 	HENDERSON, James Alfred, M.D., New York City, NY; then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, 
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 198-199.  Edited 
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical 
Association.

Henderson, James Alfred, M. D., New Orleans; was born in New York City, 
Feb. 11, 1881; son of William H. and Clara (Ulman) Henderson.  The father 
was born in New York City, and is now a resident of New Orleans; mother was 
born in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and is living at this time.  Members of the 
Henderson family have long been residents of New York state.  The maternal 
grandfather James Ulman, was a native of Boston, Mass.  He located at New 
Orleans when quite a young man, and shortly afterward was attacked with 
yellow fever.  Following his recovery, he engaged in business as architect 
and builder, and some time afterward moved to Bay St. Louis, Miss.  He was 
soon elected mayor of Bay St. Louis, and took an important part in the 
growth and development of the town and its surroundings, in the course of 
which improvement he supervised the erection of many of the most important 
buildings.  During the Civil war he served in the Confederate army, and was 
also engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder and cannon for the army.  He 
died at Bay St. Louis, being at the time of his death mayor of the city.  
In 1897 William H. Henderson, with his family, located at Bay St. Louis, 
and has since that time conducted an insurance business there.  James 
Alfred Henderson was educated in public and private schools at New York 
City.  In 1889 he entered the medical department of Tulane university, 
graduating in 1903.  Immediately afterward he was appointed medical 
inspector for the Louisiana state board of health, and after serving in 
this position about 12 months was sent to Beaumont, Tex., in the U. S. 
Marine hospital service, in connection with a yellow fever epidemic in 
Texas, remaining there until the epidemic conditions had passed.  In 1904 
he began the practice of medicine in the city of New Orleans, and has so 
continued.  In 1904 he was commissioned by Gov. Blanchard as assistant 
surgeon of the Naval Militia, and has since received a commission from 
Gov. Hall, as surgeon with the rank of lieutenant-commander.  At the 
present time he is one of the senior assistants to Dr. Dana, at the New 
Orleans charity hospital.  Dr. Henderson has been a member of the 
Commission board of health of New Orleans since 1912, and was also a 
member of the City board of health previous to that time.  The Doctor is a 
member of the Louisiana State and Orleans parish medical associations and 
of the Young Men's gymnastic club.  He is engaged in general practice and 
surgery.