City: Memphis
HENDERSON, B.R., business man; born Huntingdon, Tenn., July, 1842; educated in the common schools of Memphis, Tenn.; began his career as a newsboy, and was later taken into the employ of Lehman & Co. as errand boy and general helper, he remained with this firm two years, and then accepted a position as collector for the Morning Bulletin; in 1860 he went into the postoffice as mailing clerk, and May 15, 1861, he entered the Confederate army as a private in Company “H,” Fourth Tenn. Infantry, with which he served until latter part of 1863, when he was honorably discharged for physical disability; he was in all of the fights in which his regiment engaged, and was wounded at Shiloh; he remained with the army after his discharge, being for a time employed in the postoffice at Jackson, Miss.; when the war closed he returned to Memphis and went to work for the Memphis Avalanche, taking charge of mail routes; two years later he went into the news business on the railroads and was so employed four years; on discontinuing his news business he became a clerk in Memphis, continuing in that line until 1878, when he went to work for the Patterson Transfer Company, of which he is now vice-president; in 1889 the company purchased the interests of the Galloway Coal Company, and he was made general manager, and in 1899 he became vice-president of both companies; he was a member of the board of public works of Memphis, four years; also served as vice-mayor of that city; member of Presbyterian church, and one of the elders in same, he is a Mason and member of United Confederate Veterans.
