From GREATER WHEELING AND VICINITY
By Charles A. Winegerter, 1912; page 806.
     
Contributed by Linda Fluharty. 
 
     CHARLES WILSON HENRY, general agent for the Wheeling & Lake Erie 
Railroad Company at Wheeling, has been closely identified with the 
citizenship of Wheeling since 1898. Civic advancement and the upbuilding of 
the city along the lines of a greater business and municipal community, have 
found in him an efficient worker. 
     As a railroad man Mr. Henry is one of those whose career began at the 
telegraph keys and the routine of clerical duties, and thence by rapid 
promotion through the grades to one of the important offices of railroad 
business. He was born at Martins Ferry, Ohio, March 12, 1877, a son of James 
K. and Evaline (Rine) Henry. From 1883 to 1890 he attended public school in 
Brilliant, Ohio, and at Wheeling, and since then has been a successful 
scholar in the school of experience. 
     In 1890, at the age of thirteen, he began as telegraph operator and 
stenographer; in 1895 was advanced to cashier and ticket agent; became 
assistant agent in 1896; and was made chief clerk of the traffic department 
of the Wheeling & Lake Erie in 1898, in which year he located at Wheeling. 
His next promotion came in 1904, when he was made traveling freight and 
passenger agent, and in 1908 he was appointed general agent of the Wheeling 
office. Mr. Henry was employed for several years by the Lakeside Nail Company 
of Hammond, Indiana. 
     He is a member of the Wheeling Board of Trade and on the railroad 
committee of that organization. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias and Masonic orders, being affiliated with the Blue Lodge at 
Leesville, Ohio, the Cyrene Commandery, K. T., at Wheeling, the Osiris Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling and the Wheeling Masonic Club. His church is 
the Christian. 
     Mr. Henry married, in 1903, Miss Bertha E. East. Her father, D. C. East, 
is a wholesale hardware merchant of Anderson, Indiana. Mr. Henry purchased 
his home at 39 Indiana avenue in 1904 and has since resided there.