Bios.Tulsa,OK HENRY, Theodosius A. 
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Posted by Susan Bradford on Thu, 29 Oct 1998
Surname: HENRY, BROWNLEE, LEWIS, MORGAN, ROWELL
THEODOSIUS A. HENRY
Vol. 3, p. 1169-1170 
For nearly twenty years Mr. Henry was one of the prominent stock men and farmers in the Old Cherokee Strip, having participated in the opening rush into that country in 1893. In recent years he has become known as a banker, and is the proprietor of the Red Fork Bank at Red Fork, Tulsa County. He belongs to pioneer stock in the Southwest, and joining his record to that of his father the name has been closely associated with stock raising and with stock dealings throughout the Southwest for some five or six decades. 
Theodosius A. Henry was born in Cedar County, Missouri, January 31, 1856, a son of James L. and Margaret L. (BROWNLEE) Henry. Both were born in Greensburg, Kentucky, and the father died in 1871 at the age of sixty-one, and his wife in 1885. Theodosius was the youngest of their ten children, only two of whom are still living. James L. Henry was a man of the true pioneer spirit. In 1828 he brought his wife and three children, making the journey overland, to Cedar County, Missouri, and was one of the pioneer stock raisers and farmers in Southwest Missouri, a country which at that time was hardly explored except by hunters and trappers. He became known over a large section of country as a dealer in livestock, collecting his mules and horses at different points, and then driving them in herds across the country to market. One of his chief market points was Monroe, Louisiana. With the organization of Cedar County he was elected first county judge, and held that office until the time of the Civil war. In 1863 he removed to the vicinity of Sherman, Texas, and continued stock raising in that locality until 1868, and then went across the Arkansas line to Cane Hill, Washington County, where he continued business as a stock raiser and farmer until his death. Prior to the war he was a slave owner, and at one time had about sixty-five black people under his control. He was one of that intelligent minority who opposed war and secession, and believed in the wisdom of effecting a proper settlement of the differences which divided the North and the South. During the war and afterwards he was know as a Union democrat. 
Theodosius A. Henry grew up largely at Cane Hill, Arkansas, where he attended the common and high schools and also the Cane Hill College, one of the oldest institutions of collegiate rank in Arkansas. He was between fourteen and fifteen years of age when his father died, and thereafter a large share of responsibilities in the management of the homestead devolved upon his youthful shoulders. He continued in charge of the various interests collected and left by his father for five or six years, and then took up business independently in buying and selling horses, mules, cattle and hogs, shipping them to St. Louis and also to Yazoo, Mississippi. He acquired an extensive custom throughout the southwestern stock centers and became a recognized expert in purchasing and handling stock. In 1889 he went abroad to Spain to buy Spanish jacks for breeding purposes, and during his residence abroad visited the Paris Exposition of that year. After his return to this country he spent some time in St. Louis, Missouri, and then returned to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and continued in the same line of business for several years. 
On September 16, 1893, the date of the opening of the Cherokee Strip. Mr. Henry made the run into the new territory, and located in Pawnee County. He was fortunate in securing a homestead, and then continued his business as a stock raiser and dealer on a large scale until 1912. While in Pawnee County he took an active part in public affairs, and was one of the first county commissioners after the organization of the county. He also served as undersheriff in 1895-96 and in 1900-01. His superior in the office was Sheriff Tom LEWIS, who also was first sheriff of Tulsa County after statehood. On January 1, 1903, Mr. Henry bought the Red Fork Bank and subsequently removed from Pawnee to Red Fork, where he is living at the present time. In politics Mr. Henry is a democrat. 
He was first married in 1879 to Miss Eran MORGAN, who died the same year, leaving one son, Allen Henry, now cashier of the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Catoosa, Oklahoma. Mr. Henry married his second wife December 8, 1897, Miss Lou ROWELL. She was born in Heidelburg, Mississippi. To their union have come five children, four sons and one daughter: Roy H., Cecil L., Eugene G., Floyd F., and Margaret Louise. 
Transcribed by Susan Bradford, 28 October 1998