City: Memphis<\/p>\n
HENDERSON, B.R.<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,261,77,4419],"tags":[4376],"class_list":{"0":"post-7182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carroll","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-h","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-henderson","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}