Early Life
Girard Henderson was born on February 25, 1905, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Alexander D. Henderson and Ella M. Brown. In 1927, Henderson married Theodora Gregson Huntington from Spring Valley, New York, which was located five miles north of Suffern. They had two children, Theodora and Dariel. They divorced in 1960. On June 5, 1964, Henderson married his second wife, Mary Hollingsworth in Clark County, Nevada.
In 1925, Henderson got his first commercial job as a shipping clerk at the Cheney Silk Company in New York City. In 1935, the Alexander Dawson holding company, was incorporated in Trenton, New Jersey. The name of the company became Alexander Dawson, Inc., (ADI).
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