Girard B. Henderson
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| Born |
Girard Brown Henderson February 25, 1905 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | November 16, 1983 Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Cause of death | Myocardial infarction |
| Residence | Suffern, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Businessman, Philanthropist |
| Title | Founder and CEO, Alexander Dawson Foundation CEO, Alexander Dawson Inc. |
| Board member of | Avon Products |
| Spouse(s) | Theodora G. Huntington Mary Franklin |
| Children | Theodora G. Henderson Dariel Ann Henderson |
Girard Brown Henderson (February 25, 1905 – November 16, 1983) was an American business executive and philanthropist. He is best known as being a director of Avon Products and the founder of the Alexander Dawson Schools.
Girard Henderson (Jerry) was born on February 25, 1905, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Alexander D. Henderson and Ella M. Brown. In 1910, the family moved from Brooklyn to Suffern, New York. Jerry Henderson went to the Suffern Grammar School and later went to a Catholic convent school called the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus. He continued his education at the preparatory Storm King School in Cornwall On Hudson, New York. He was captain of the football team and graduated in the class of 1923. In 1925, Henderson was accepted to Dartmouth College, but only attended his freshman year.
In 1925, Henderson got his first commercial job as a shipping clerk at the Cheney Silk Company in New York City. In 1927, Jerry sold pots and pans of cast aluminum door-to-door for the Club Aluminum Company. In 1927, Henderson married Theodora Gregson Huntington from Spring Valley, New York, which was located five miles north of Suffern. They had two children, Theodora and Dariel. They divorced in 1960. In 1928, Henderson took a job with a stock brokerage firm in Patterson, New Jersey at $110 a week. When the stock market crashed in 1929, he worked selling life insurance for the Phoenix Mutual Insurance Company.
In the 1930s, Henderson flew a Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing airplane for David H. McConnell, president of the California Perfume Company. The company chartered Jerry's plane to transport executives going from Philadelphia and Albany on business. In 1933, Henderson opened the Henderson Motor Co., in Suffern, New York with Kenneth Burnham, Henderson's lifelong friend. The company was a Chrysler Dodge dealership. Henderson later landed a contract to truck materials for Avon from New York City to Suffern.
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