JUDSON L. HENDERSON - Jefferson Co. Okla

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Information below was copied from:
"History of Oklahoma" by Luther Hill, published in 1908"

JUDSON L. HENDERSON has been a merchant and business man of Ryan since the early years of the town, and besides a successful career from a material standpoint has also won many friends and the thorough esteem of all his business connections. Born in White county, Arkansas, January 26, 1869, he had only a country school education to prepare him for life's broader affairs, and until the age of nineteen continued among the activities of the home farm. At Brownwood, Texas, after being in the draying business two years, he became an employe of a local milling concern. He learned the business in detail and soon after leased a mill at Belton, Texas. Within two years he had accumulated sufficient capital to buy a mill of his own. Finding such a property as he desired at Ryan, in Indian Territory, he took charge of the well known Ryan Flour Mills, and conducted the enterprise five years, until 1901. He and Mr. Epperson then bought the grocery stock of T. H. Allen, and after a year the firm of Henderson arid Epperson gave way to its successor, J. L. Henderson, who conducted it two years, when the firm became Henderson & Treadwell. Mr. Treadwell withdrew when he was elected sheriff of Jefferson county, and Mr. Henderson is now sole proprietor of his business. He sells groceries and harness and saddle supplies, and his trade extends to the east for thirty mi1es and across Red river into Texas on the southwest.
The family history of Mr. Henderson may begin with his grandfather, who was Enos Henderson, a native of Georgia, who died in Arkansas in 1877, when about eighty years of age. He had a large family, most of whom reared families, namely: William, Harvey, Robert; Gabriel and Milton, all deceased in Arkansas;John H.; Mack, who died near the old home; Caroline, deceased; Mrs. Lizzie Patton; and Mrs. Skillen.John H. Henderson, just mentioned, the father of our Ryan merchant, was born in Jackson county, Tennessee, in 1834, and is still living in White county, Arkansas, where he settled with his father about 1852. He served as a Confederate soldier during the war. By his marriage to Mary Gibson, the daughter of an Arkansas farmer, he had the following children: Judson L., above mentioned; Jabous, of White county, Arkansas; Nora, wife of Dow Crow, of the same county; George, of Ryan; Oliver, of Chickasha;. Arthur andBradford, of the home county in Arkansas. The mother of this family had first been married to Joseph Nowell, and had two children: Joseph, of Cleburne county, Arkansas, and Ella, deceased, wife of Dock Baldwin. Mr. Judson L. Henderson himself was married near Searcy, White county, Arkansas, January 14, 1898, to Miss Annie Marsh, daughter of Roland and Jane (Adcock) Marsh. Her brothers and sisters are:Cora, wife of Robert Epperson; Howard, of Cabot, Arkansas; Mary, Haywood and William, all of Pangburn, Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson's children are Homer, Spencer, Jewell and Opal .