Biography of Harry A. Henthorn

HARRY A. HENTHORN is secretary for Morris Watts and
shipping agent for the Pocahontas Coal Sales Company in
the coal business, with headquarters at Gilliam, McDowell
County, and is one of the vital and popular young men here
concerned with business enterprise.

Mr. Henthorn was born at Toronto, Jefferson County,
Ohio, March 25, 1893, and is a son of Jesse and Mary
(Allen) Henthorn, both likewise natives of the old Buckeye
State, where the father has long been successfully engaged
in road and bridge construction work as a contractor.

After attending the public schools of Monroe County,
Ohio, Harry A. Henthorn continued his studies in a normal
school in the same county. for three years thereafter he
was a successful teacher in the schools of Monroe County,
and he then came to Wheeling, West Virginia, and entered
the Elliott Commercial College, in which he completed a
thorough course, which included stenography, typewriting
and general commercial instruction, besides which he took
a secretarial course, his graduation having occurred in 1914.
After leaving this institution he became pay-roll clerk for
the Glenalum Coal Company at Glenalum, Mingo County,
and three months later became secretary to Mr. Watts at
Eckman, McDowell County, where he remained five years,
since which time he has held his present responsible position
at Gilliam, this county.

The political allegiance of Mr. Henthorn is given to the
democratic party, he is affiliated with the Masonic frater-
nity, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist
Church.

December 21, 1915, in Monroe County, Ohio, was solem-
nized the marriage of Mr. Henthorn and Miss Eska Ekle-
berry, daughter of Albert Ekleberry, a substantial citizen
of that county. The two children of this union are Harry
A., Jr., and Beatrice Pearl.

From The History of West Virginia, Old and New, page 56

Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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