Early Life
Charles Henderson was born on April 26, 1860 in Pike County, Alabama. Charles was the third son of Jeremiah Augustus "Gus" Henderson and Mildred Hill Henderson. Charles Henderson’s keen business sense developed in childhood while helping out with his father’s successful mercantile business in Troy. At age 15, Henderson enrolled in Howard College in Marion, Alabama. Two years later his father died unexpectedly, and Henderson left school to help run the family business in Troy.
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