George S. Henderson
George S. Henderson, the pioneer carriage-maker of Eureka, where he has resided and had his shop for over twenty years, has been engaged in the various departments of his trade in the west for nearly forty years. He has been a very successful man, and has reared a family of young men and women who are themselves following honorable pursuits in life and reflect credit on their parents.
Mr. Henderson is of English and Scotch ancestry, and his parents, James and Mrs. (Shanks) Henderson, were emigrants to Toronto, Canada, where the former was accidentally drowned in the sixty-fourth year of his life, but the latter lived to be more than eighty years old and passed away at the old home in Onondaga. Of their family of thirteen children George S. Henderson is the only one in Nevada. He was born at Mount Pleasant, Canada, August 23, 1843, and was educated there and learned his trade of blacksmith and carriage-maker. When twenty-two years old he went to California, and sharpened the first drills that were used in the construction of the Southern Pacific tunnel on the summit of the Sierra mountains. He was employed for some time along the line of this railroad while it was in process of construction, and after that went to Virginia City and was paid six dollars a day as a journeyman blacksmith. From there he went to Shell Creek and did the shoeing of the Salt Lake stage horses and of the Wells-Fargo Company's horses. He was then employed in a similar capacity by Woodruff and Ennor, who had a stage route from Elko to White Pine, and next entered the employ of the Eureka and Palisade stage line, doing the work for that company until the Eureka and Palisade Railroad was built. He opened up his shop in Eureka in 18S0, and has done general blacksmithing and carriage work ever since. He has the oldest establishment of the kind in the town, and has also done the largest and most profitable business.
In 1864 Mr. Henderson was married to Miss Mary Scott, a native of Paris, Canada, and they have had six children, as follows: James, now assistant foreman on the San Francisco Examiner; John, who was educated in the public schools and is now in business with his father; J. W., who is running a store in Delamar; Frank, in a store at Tonopah; Albert, a graduate of the State University and now teaching school; Alice E., in school at home. Mr. Henderson has been a life-long Republican, and he and his wife were both reared in the Presbyterian faith. They have one of the comfortable and cheerful homes of Eureka, and are fine citizens, good neighbors, and do what is right in their home and abroad.
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