The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-06-12
THURSDAY, JUNE II, 1890.
W. r. HENRY. ESQ. FOR SOLICITOR
Some Reasons why We Endorse His
Claims.

Claims.
As is already known Vance county
has candidate for the office of So
licitor of the Third Judicial District,
in the person of w. r. Henry, Esq.
In common with many of his county
men and others throughout the District,
the GOLD LEAF endorses his claims
and hopes he will receive the nomina
tiod-frst, because of his thorough fit
ness for the place, and second, because
Vance county has right to ask and
expect some consideration on the part
of her friends in the other end of the
District While she has been uncom-
planning and faithful to every duty, she
has been without recognition, and now
that she presents Il candidate OF equal
force and merit and proposes to divide
lllN iIOllOIo stlItl CillpluiICIIjS OI OlllIC
with the middle and lower part of the
District, it occurs to us that she should
not ask in vain
Mr.. Henry is well equipped for the
duties of the office to which he aspires.
He is 4 fine lawyer, familiar with the
authorities and we'll versed in the fun
damental principles of the Law, stfong
and powerful as an advocate, and
speaker of rare force and eloquenCc,
logical and convincing before Jury
Possessed of vast resources of mind, he
Is ready and apt, quick to see a point
and swift to act, but always after due
dellberatlOn. In the preparation of
his Cases, Mr.. Henry is always careful
and painstaking and there is no van
tage ground that he does not take pos
session of and defend with all the Wig
or and fearlessness that the facts or the
Law may warrant. His COnsummatc
skill and tact in drawing bills of in
dictment and his fine judgment and
ability in the management of cases in
volving difficult problems of Law, show
him to be eminently qualified for the
creditable and satisfactory discharge
of the duties of Solicitor. And this is
not the unsupported opinion of this
writer alone, as will appear further on
lii this article
Mr.. Henry was born in BERTHE coun-
ty, n. c., in the year 1857, and is
consequently now in his thirty third
year. Being left an orphan by the
death of his father, he was taken bv
his uncle, DIR. ?. +. Henry, by whom
he was reared and educated. Having
married 4 daughter of Hon. B. +.
Moore, of Raleigh, Dr. Henry moved
up the country in 1872 to kittrell,
then in Granville, now in Vance coun-
ty, where he has since resided at his
elegant home. Mr. Henry was cdu-
Gated at the splendid schools of the
Messrs. Fetter and I. ]. & W. ID.
Horner, and at the University of North
Carolina. He studied Medicine three
years, with view to entering the medi-
cal profession, and was on the eve OF
going to Jefferson College, when his
uncle determined to fit him for the
Bar, at his earnest solicitation. He
soon afterwards became a student al
the excellent Law School of Dick &
billiard, at Greensboro, one of the bcs'
in the South, and in June, 1880, was
granted license by the Supreme Cour
of North Carolina to practice Law
Mr.. Henry lived in Raleigh from thai
time until 1885, when he moved tt
Henderson and became partner o
that thorough lawyer ard ripe scholar
the lamented W. H. Young, Esq. Mr.
Young having died in the fall of 1885
Mr.. Henry soon afterwards became ;
partner of Judge (now Governor
Daniel c. Fowle.
In addition to his knowledge of thu
Law proper, Mr.. Henry is thorough,
versed in Medical jurisprudence, hay
ing made special study of that brancl
of Medico-legal learning, and as IA
back as 1882, by his familiarity will
the same displayed in the conduct o
a desperate case in which mothe