Athens Weekly Review
July 30, 1925
Knox Henderson
Mr. Knox Henderson was born near Marion, Ala., August 29, 1871.
His parents brought him to Texas in 1872 and settled near
Henderson, Rusk county; thence to Smith county in 1875. His
father died in Smith county in 1885, and the family moved to
Henderson county and settled in the Morrison Chapel community in
1886, near where the town of LaRue is now located.
Mr. Henderson had but little school advantages in early life.
Where about nineteen years of age he entered Judge C. D. Owen's
private school at New York, Texas, beginning in the sixth grade.
When twenty-three years largest rural public school of the county
and a member of the count board to examine teachers for
certificates. In 1899 he quit teaching, married Mr. Anna Calhoun
Martin, of Starkville, Miss., and settled in Athens where he
began a small grocery business on the east side of the square.
Besides his present wholesale grain and heavy grocery business,
Mr. Henderson is president of the Hassell Mercantile Company, a
$25,000 corporation at Frankston, Texas, and secretary-treasurer
and general manager of the Patterson Lake Oil Company, a $100,000
corporation with its main office in Corsicana, Texas.
Besides Mr. Henderson’s active life in Business, he has
found time to do his full part of church and state. He is an
active member of the First Methodist church in Athens. Has been a
local steward thirty-seven years; a district steward twenty-six
years; superintendent of the Sunday School fifteen years and has
represented the presiding elders district in which the Athens
church is located, twenty-three years in the Texas annual
conference. In 1924 he was one of the lay delegates that
represented the Texas annual conference in the General Conference
held at Knoxville, Tenn., at which conference the question of
unification was submitted to the annual conferences for
ratification. He has served as county chairman in two campaigns
for prohibition. Both were successful.
He has always been a strong supporter of civic improvements. He
favored and helped to put over our water works, sewerage and
pavement improvements and has over one thousand feet of paved
sidewalk to his credit.
During the world war he did his full part. He was a member of the
Red Cross and liberty bond committees, chairman of the food
administrator of Athens.
Mr. Henderson has four children, two daughters and two sons. Miss
Ruth is now in Europe studying the languages and music of the
leading countries of that continent. Hugh graduated at Southern
Methodist University in 1924, and is now operation in the
Eastland county oil field. Knox Jr., and Lois, are with their
parents in Athens.
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