{"id":3210,"date":"2022-01-10T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:08:34","slug":"henry-james-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/henry-james-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry, James O."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James O. Henry<\/strong>, one of the well known business men of Ripley, is a son of<br \/>\nAlexander and Sarah (Carruth) Henry. Both parents were born and raised in<br \/>\nSouth Carolina, and moved to Wilson County, Tenn., when young, where they<br \/>\nmarried. In 1831 they moved to Madison County, and two years later to<br \/>\nLauderdale County, and five years later to Haywood County. Five sons and three<br \/>\ndaughters were born to them; only two now living. The father was a farmer and<br \/>\na Whig before the war, and a Democrat afterward. He had three brave sons in<br \/>\nthe war; one held the rank of captain, and one of first lieutenant. Mr. and<br \/>\nMrs. Henry were Presbyterians. James O. Henry, is of Scotch-Irish descent,<br \/>\nand was born in Madison County, Tenn., April 4, 1832, and was raised in<br \/>\nHaywood County. His educational advantages were limited; while growing up he<br \/>\nlearned the blacksmith&#8217;s trade, and when twenty-one, commenced work for<br \/>\nhimself, and for thirty-five years has worked steadily at his trade. In 1855<br \/>\nhe married Martha Hendren, by whom he had one son and six daughters; the<br \/>\nentire family are Methodists; he is a firm Democrat. In 1860 he moved to<br \/>\nLauderdale County, and in connection with his trade farmed. In 1881 he moved<br \/>\nto Ripley, to educate his children; he opened a blacksmith shop, and also took<br \/>\nboarders. In 1884, he moved to the hotel which he now keeps, and is doing<br \/>\nwell, and he is also interested in the furniture business. Mr. Henry has been<br \/>\na resident of this county for twenty-six years, and for five years has been<br \/>\nintimately connected with the business interests of Ripley. He is well known<br \/>\nall over the county and highly respected.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James O. Henry, one of the well known business men of Ripley, is a son of Alexander and Sarah (Carruth) Henry. Both parents were born and raised in South Carolina, and moved to Wilson County, Tenn., when young, where they <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/henry-james-o\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-henry"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}