Henry, H. L.

HENRY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 13:36:29

H. L. Henry

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.27, Council Bluffs)
H. L. Henry, grain dealer, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1856, and built a saw-mill in Harrison County, making Council Bluffs his headquarters, and continued in that business some few years. When the war broke out, he entered the army as Acting Quartermaster for Battalion Fourth Iowa and Spoor's Battery. In 1863, he purchased a steamboat; followed steambating between St. Louis and New Orleans, commanding the boat himself. From 1866 to 1870, he was interested in the oil business in Kentucky; he then went into the grain business, operating between Council Bluffs and St. Louis, and has continued in that business ever since, with the exception of the years 1872 and 1873, when he went to Texas, where he acted in the capacity of Special Agent of the California & Texas Railway Construction Company, furnishing the money in currency for the construction of that road. Since 1873, he has been operating in grain more or less. Mr. Henry was born in New York City, and is of Scotch descent.