George W. Henry

    George W. Henry, of the firm of Raub, Earl &  Henry, grain, lumber, hardware, hay and coal dealers, is a native of Herkimer County, new York, and one of the five children of George W. and Susan C. (Brown) Henry, the former a native of New Hampshire, the latter of Pennsylvania. George W. Henry, Sr., has the honor of having built the first railway-car used in the United States, also forty miles of the Alleghany & Portage Railroad, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Afterward, he lost his sight, and preached and published many religious works. He died in Herkimer County, New York, in 1876, aged seventy-six years.

    Our subject learned the trade of book-binding, and assisted his father in the publishing business until 1861, when located at La Fayette and engaged in the wholesale dry goods trade with Purdue, Brown &  Co. for three years; after, at Indianapolis for two years, when he came to this county (Benton) and engaged in farming for ten years. Mr. Henry was married in Clinton County, New York to Miss Sarah A. Taylor, daughter of R. N. and Amanda Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have one child -Florence A.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.