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HENRY, A. R., president of the First National Bank; was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, in 1838; owing to the prevailing sickness in this locality, his parents returned to Illinois, and located in Stephenson county; in 1859 he came to Iowa, and settled in Warren county, where he engaged in farming and dealing in general merchandise; he enlisted in the 34th Iowa Infantry in the late war, as a private, and was mustered out a commissioned officer; he held various township offices in Union township; in 1874 he sold out his business in Sandyville and came to Indianola, and took charge of the First National Bank, of which he is president; and since his connection with it has declared a dividend each year; his financial ability and integrity have never been questioned; careful and accurate, he has the fullest confidence of the people; as a man, upright, reliable and honorable, and justly rating his own self-respect and the deserved esteem of his fellow-citizens as more valuable than wealth or fame; he married Miss Elizabeth E. Cottle, of Rock Grove, Ill., in 1865; she was born in Michigan; they have two children: Horace E. and Wirt C.