From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

pp. 517-518

Harry A. HENDERSON, M. D., a progressive and skillful physician of 
Wheeling, West Virginia, is an esteemed and popular citizen who is 
rising rapidly to the summit of his profession.  He was born in 
Peoria county, Illinois, August 20, 1870, and is a son of Thomas R. 
and Martha J. (Rickey) Henderson, natives of Pennsylvania.
	Thomas R. Henderson was born in 1832, and when a boy went to 
the prairies of Illinois, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits.  
He returned after some years to Pennsylvania, where he is still 
living in Greene county.  He married Martha J. Rickey, born October 
8, 1845, who is also still living.  They reared four children, as 
follows:  Estella, still living with her parents; Harry A.; James L., 
also at home; and Bertha, who married H. L. Erving, a farmer of note, 
in Greene county, Pennsylvania.
	When quite young the subject hereof attended public school at 
Grayville, Illinois, after which he went east and attended Waynesburg 
College, at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated, in 1893, 
with the degree of B. A.  His education did not end with this, 
however, as he entered the Western University of Pennsylvania, at 
Pittsburg, having decided to make medicine his special study.  In 
1895 he took the state examination in West Virginia, and the 
following year, upon graduating from the university, he took the 
state examination of Pennsylvania.  Directly after this he took a 
post-graduate course at the New York Polytechnic School in New York 
City, and began the practice of his profession September 1, 1896.  He 
is located at No. 157 National Road, Fulton, and is enjoying an 
active practice.
	Dr. Henderson  was joined in marriage with Bertha Heim, August 
8, 1900.  She is a daughter of Lewis and Sarah (Rhoades) Heim, and 
was born in Fulton, West Virginia, August 17, 1871.  In politics, the 
Doctor is an active Republican.  He is well read and takes a worthy 
pride in striving to become a master of his profession.