Henry Enders

Birth Date

1803-05-07

Death Date

1879-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Paducah, Kentucky, retired merchant, banker, and real estate investor. Virginia native. Son of Jacob Enders. Married to Adelia Jacob Enders. Father of Elvira Enders, Cora John Enders, Franklin H. Enders, Sarah A. Enders, Geraldine Enders, Davidella Enders, Willey Enders, and Minnie B. Enders. Moved to Kentucky in 1818. Clerk of a dry good store in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, from 1818 to 1821. Went into business with his brother. Produce merchant in Morganfield, Kentucky, from 1821 to 1826. Moved to Shawneetown, Illinois in 1826, and worked as a dry good merchant. Co-owned the store in Shawneetown, Smithland, Kentucky, and New Orleans, Louisiana, with his brother. Moved to Paducah, in 1828, and opened another branch office, which became the main office in 1833. Retired as merchant in 1861. Worked in real estate and banking. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850 and nine in 1860.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 611-612. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division 1, p. 142. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division 1, p. 447. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, Paducah, p. 101. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, Paducah, p. 16. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 35. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, p. 446.

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