HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1307-08.  Boyd County.

FRANK R. HENDERSON is the secretary and business manager of the firm of
Kitchen, Whitt & Company, Ashland, Kentucky, which position indicates
something of the scope of his efforts.  A man of resourceful business
ability, he stands among those whose keen discrimination not only enables
them to recognize the opportunities of the present, but also proving a
substantial and important element in the upbuilding and development of the
community, as embodied in the carefully conducted business methods of
managing a large and important concern.
     Mr. Henderson was born in Hanging Rock, Ohio, on June 14, 1865, the
son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Moore) Henderson, the former a native of
Maryland and the latter born in Pennsylvania.  The father learned the
moulder's trade in Baltimore and when seventeen years old left there,
going to Birmingham, Alabama, but soon afterward went to Hanging Rock,
Ohio.  He had learned his trade well and was an expert moulder and worked
with various furnaces in Hanging Rock region.  It 1873 he moulded the iron
water pipes which were the first laid in the city of New Orleans, which
were shipped down the river from Old Pine Grove furnace near Hanging Rock.
As an unknown boy looking for a situation, he secured a job doing the
above work after a practical failure by the furnace people to make such
castings after sending to the east for experts.  Being successful from
the first, he soon had entire charge of the work.
     In 1844 he started in for himself and formed the firm of Martin
Henderson & Company, which conducted a foundry at Hanging Rock for many
years and built up a large business.  Mr. Henderson sold his interests
in 1883 and retired to Ashland, where in 1884 he founded a wholesale
hardware business and was so engaged until his death, which occurred in
1898, at the age of eighty-two years.  His wife died many years previously,
having been the mother of six children, five of whom are living, our
subject the fifth in order of birth.
     Frank R. Henderson was reared at Hanging Rock, Ohio, receiving a
good education in the public and high schools, the latter being the
first in the state.  He accompanied his parents to Ashland at the age of
seventeen and soon after entered the hardware store with his father,
later becoming a salesman for the firm, in which connection he traveled
through northeastern Kentucky for eleven years.  During the panic of
1893 it became difficult to transact much business in the hardware line
and he conceived the idea of organizing a wholesale grocery store,
considering it one of the absolute necessities of life, and therefore
organized the present company during those days and has made of it a
great success.  It started in a small way, but the development was rapid
and in 1904 it had an incorporated capital stock of one hundred thousand
dollars, with the following officers from the first and which are serving
at the present time: James H. Kitchen, president, William B. Whitt,
vice-president, James B. King, treasurer, and Frank R. Henderson, our
subject, secretary and general manager.  In 1898 the present large modern
building was erected, thirty by one hundred feet, three stories and
basement, and ware-rooms, fifty by one hundred feet.  Eight salesmen are
employed on the road, covering portions of Kentucky, Ohio and West
Virginia.
     In politics Mr. Henderson is a Republican and is interested in the
upbuilding of the town and conscientiously preforms his share of duties
as a citizen.  Among these services was his member of the council.  He
is a Mason, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Commandery
and Shrine, all of Ashland.  In 1887 Mr. Henderson married Virginia Poage,
a native of Ashland, a daughter of the late Hugh Calvin Poage, a
representative of one of the oldest Kentucky families and of whom a sketch
appears elsewhere in this history.  Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have one son,
Thomas Allen, and are members of the Presbyterian church.

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