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 has been a pedagogue in Alabama, having last served as principal of the high school at Decatur, with the irrepressible R. C. O. Benjamin as his assistant.

With credit to himself, he has served several churches of the Alabama Conference, now being Presiding Elder of the Selma District, comprising a field four hundred miles in length. To him is accredited the completion of the Payne University, at Selma, Ala. As a journalist, he did much to foster and encourage the work in his state. He is a strong supporter of The Southern Christian Recorder, by pen and word. He is the author of "The Moth of Ignorance Must be Destroyed."

His associates on The Dallas Post are well-known gentlemen, now active members of the craft, viz.: Mr. Jno. M. Gee and Rev. M. E. Bryant. They attest that he is a sharp-pointed and ready writer. Our subject loves his God first, then his people. Such a man is bound to be of service to the country.

In the early part of October of 1886 a conference, composed of gentlemen representing the Banister Baptist Association and the Sunday School Union of Halifax County, met at the First Baptist church of South Boston, for the purpose of considering the advisability of establishing a newspaper. It was decided it should be done; whereupon Mr. Henry was chosen as editor, and Rev. J. Russell, Jr., business manager, with instructions to prepare a prospectus, at the earliest day, setting forth the moral, educational and financial necessities of the race, and the line of policy the paper should pursue. It was also decided that it should be known as The Halifax Enterprise, and that it should be published in the town of South Boston.