HENRY STROTHER was born May 17, 1860, in Butler County, Ky., a son of Dr. John F. and Mary E. (Simmons) Strother. The father has been a resident of Rochester, Ky., the past thirty-five years, engaged in the practice of medicine. He is a graduate of Nashville and Louisville Medical Colleges and stands at the head of his profession, his practice extending over the counties of Butler, Logan, Muhlenburgh and Ohio. The mother died in 1863. Our subject was reared in Rochester, and in 1880 attended the Cumberland University, taking a select course of studies. The following year he, with D. Poole, opened a drug and grocery store, which they carried on a short time. He then moved to Morgantown, where he carried on the drug and grocery business about eighteen months. In June, 1884, he came to Dixon, and has since been engaged in the grocery and hardware business there. While in Morgantown, he was for a time deputy county clerk.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Pages 1049-1050.