Andrew Henry (fur trader)

Andrew Henry
Born	c. 1775 Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Died	January 10, 1832 (aged c. 56) Washington County, Missouri
Nationality	American
Occupation	miner, bullet maker, manufacturer, army officer, frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, entrepreneur, hunter, explorer
Known for	Being the co-owner of the highly successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred," and leader of Hugh Glass' expedition

Major Andrew Henry (c. 1775 – 1832) was an American miner, army officer, frontiersman, trapper and entrepreneur. Alongside William H. Ashley, Henry was the co-owner of the highly successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred", for the famous mountain men working for their firm from 1822-1832. Henry appears in the narrative poem, the Song of Hugh Glass, which is part of the Neihardt's Cycle of the West. He is portrayed by John Huston in the 1971 film Man in the Wilderness and by Domhnall Gleeson in the 2015 film The Revenant, both of which depict Glass's bear attack and journey.

Andrew Henry was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and was tall and slender, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a reputation for honesty. Henry went to Nashville, Tennessee, in his twenties, but moved on to Spanish Upper Louisiana Territory in 1800 (before the Louisiana Purchase), to the lead mines near present-day Potosi, Missouri, and in 1806, he bought a share of a lead mine.

In 1809, he joined with Manuel Lisa, Jean Pierre Chouteau and William Clark to found the Missouri Fur Company. He soon led an expedition to the Three Forks of the Missouri River near present-day Three Forks, Montana, where he built "Fort Henry". In 1811 Henry explored the Montana-Idaho wilderness and discovered Henry's Lake. During the same expedition, he built a post also, named “Fort Henry” on Henry's Fork of the Snake River, near present-day Saint Anthony, Idaho.

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