WILLIAM E. HENDERSON, proprietor of the Piqua Creamery, at Piqua, has been a resident of this city for the past eleven years and during this period he has thoroughly identified himself with her best interests. Mr. Henderson was born September 16, 1854 , near De Graff, Logan County, Ohio, where he was reared and attended school.

Mr. Henderson's first business connection was in the mercantile line, he beginning as a clerk in the drug store of M. D. Brown, at St. Paris, and later becoming a member of the firm, which became Brown & Henderson. After selling his interest there, he became manager of a grain elevator at De Graff, which he operated for three years, and after retiring from that connection he was engaged in farming and stockraising for several years. During five years of this period he was manager of a creamery at De Graff. In 1898, with the experience thus gained, he came to this city and established the Piqua Creamery, one of the largest and best equipped creameries in this section. It has a capacity of 20,000 pounds of butter per week and he receives his cream from Miami, Shelby and Champaign County farmers and produces a quality of butter that is in constant and increasing demand. He gives employment to some twenty men, who are subjected to the strictest sanitary supervision. He is a stockholder also in the Troy Creamery.

Mr. Henderson was married in 1878, to Miss Clara A. Riker, of St. Paris, Ohio, and they have two children; Paul A., who is engaged in engineering work in Idaho; and Homer R., who is associated in business with his father. Mr. Henderson and family are members of the Green Street Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a member of its board of trustees.