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    1. [ALBARBOU] HENDERSON, Charles
    2. Jim and Terri Tait
    3. Could someone please forward to the Pike county list? Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 18/19 State Executive Offices, Railroad Commission, President CHARLES HENDERSON, of Troy, was born at Henderson, Pike county, April 26, 1856, and is the son of Jeremiah Augustus and Mildred (Hill) Henderson, and the grandson of James Eli Henderson and of Wm. Murray and Martha (Ward) Hill (of Burke county, Ga and Pike county, Ala) and great-grandson of Nathaniel Henderson, who early removed from North Carolina to Clarke county, Ga. Wm. Murray Hill served in the Mexican War, and enlisted in the War of Secession, but was relieved on account of his health. Jeremiah A. Henderson was a delegate from Pike county in the Alabama secession convention in 1861, and later served as a member of Capt. A.P. Love's Co in the Jeff Davis Legion. Charles Henderson was educated in the common schools of Pike county, and in Howard College, but he did not graduate. Leaving college on the death of his father, he did not return. He is a merchant and a banker. He has served as mayor of Troy six terms, 1886 to 1891, and 1901 to 1906. He was assistant inspector general on Gov Wm. J. Samford's staff and aid on the staff of Gov Wm. D. Jelks. Mr. Henderson is a Democrat, a Mason, and a Knight Templar. In 1906, he was nominated as one of the candidates for the Railroad Commission. At Raleigh, N.C. Nov 7, 1888 he was married to Laura, daughter of Thomas Anthony and Sara (Dowtin) Montgomery.

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