CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JOHN L. HENRY - Dallas County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOHN L. HENRY

John L. Henry, of Dallas, was born in Culpepper county Virginia, October 18, 
1831, but he was reared and educated at Murfresboro, Tenn., graduating from 
Union University. He came to Texas in 1852, was admitted to the bar in 1855 
and began practice in Livingston. In 1860 was elected district attorney. At 
the end of his term, declining a renomination, he joined McCordell's company 
in Elmo's regiment and served to the close of the war. In 1869 he removed to 
Tyler and attained high rank at this bar, one of the most famous in the 
state. He was in the Senate from Smith county in the Thirteenth legislature, 
and in 1875 was a member of the Constitutional convention. In 1880 he 
removed to Dallas, and eight years later he was elected as associate justice 
of the Texas Supreme Court. He was married in Rutherford county Tenn., 
December 28, 1860, to Miss Cornelia Jamison. They had five children, their 
oldest son, Hon. William T. Henry, is one of the ablest young lawyers in 
Dallas. Judge Henry is still living, and is esteemed the first lawyer of the 
North Texas bar. His wife died in 1905.