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 UERRINGSHAWS LIBKARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY Henxy, WiUiam Seaton, soldiir. author. in UIQ in Albuny, NA. Hi' was officer in tb« United 8tate« army. He of Ciimpaigu Sk»'t« )ie8 of th* author was tbe War with Mexico. Uv dioil .March 5, 1851,

wa« born

a

New York

in

City.

Wirt, soldur. lawyer, nierchaat, autiiur, v,aa burn Nuv. 21, 1831, in Waterlmry, Vt. During the war he served in the union c-otj.-,; hihI was rapidly promoted lo fir>t iieui»iiaiit. major, lieiiteii ant t-t)lonel, eolonel. brevet brigadier gmeral. lie ha> pector.

Henry,

William

gist of Hi.rlinglon, 't.. and president of the society of the army of the Potomac ; and pre«tident of the American historical society, lie w:i!. tlif inillior of Early History of irginia. He died in 1900 in Kicbmond, V'a.

Heiuel, l«)rn

v;i>

Ubkr, lawyer, author,

WflDiara Deo.

4.

IS.'il,

in

Qtiarryville.

Pa.

a lawyer of Ijaneastei, Pa.; has been ttttoiney-gencral of Pennsylvania; in 18829^ was nr '*^i<!fTit of the Pennsylvania Kducational u social ion and in 1^98 asnoeiute is president of the state bar assoeiation. the author of Lives of T. A. Hendricliit and (Jrover Cleveland. Henshall, James Alexander, publie oH-eial. author, was born Feb. 29, 1836, in Baltimore. Md. He practiced medicine until 1896; and siner ISOfi lias hcfii superintendent of the Unitf'd Staler fiiob commission station at Boaeman. Mont. He is the author of Book of the Plark Pass; Camping and Cruising in Florida Ye tiods and I.<ittle Fishes: and Pass, Pike, Ptoreh and Othen.

He

i.s



wncbicted till its discontinnanee. a period of fourteen vears, after which he resided in Boston. He died May 9, 1863, in Boston,

Mass.

Henshaw, David. dnigrgi«t. author, cabinet was bom April 2, 1791, in Leicester. Mass. For nine years he was collector of eustoms for flio port of Pdst.Mi; !'nd in 1843* 44 was secretary of the navy. He was the author of Letters on the .Internal Improve* ment and Co.-nnierce of the West. He died Nov. 11, 1S.52, in I.«icester, Mass. officer,

Heaaliaw. Frederick YaMemir. consulting engineer of 14 Wall ^t., Xi u York Pit v. was born AngUMt. 1866. in Brog(» of Mon* treal.

in rhemi<;trv and encidirector of the I'nited Ctili-

specializins?

neering.

He

is

company, the Heading Transit and Light rnmnany. .inn Power Light corporation; and vice prefiident of the Golonfal Power and Light com*

ties

pany.

Henshaw, Frederick W., lawyer,

jurixt.

In

associate

justice

of

the

supreme court of California. Henshaw, Henry Wethcrbesb naturalist ethnologist, author, was l«oni March 3. 1850,

?tate

in Cambridge, MatM. In 1872 he joined the Wlieeler snrv^ as naturalist; in 1879 he was connected with the bureau of ethnol ogy; and in 1905 he joined the biological !>un'ey. He is the author of Birds of tlie

Hawaiian Islands.

Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley, biahop, Author, was bom June 13, 1792. in Middletown, Conn. He was the fir t protestant stand. He was episcopal bishop of Rhode the author of Theolog' for the People; Lesand son** in Klocuti<m; (hi Confirnnition He The Work of Christ's Living Body. »iied July Ifl. 18r»2, in Freiiericlc, Md. author, lawyer, Henshaw, Joshua Sidney, was born Oct. 16, 1811. in Boston. Mam. He was a lawyer in I tica from 1848; and previously an instructor in the I'nited States navy. He was the author of InciteI



ments to W. ll Di.in;;; Life of Father Mathew; United States Manual for Consuls: Around the World; and Philosophy of Hu-

man

Progress.

I'tica,

He

died April 2D. S», in

N.Y.

Henalaf; Xlisa, singer, was bom about 1835 in Poston. Mass. Her first appearance was at the Academy of Music, New York, at the age of fifteen. She then went to LislMin. and IxK-ame a favorite; and in I8«ft married the ex kin;r of Portugal. Ferdinand. Duke of "^MVi

(

nl,)irg-Cotba.

Hensley, Mrs. Sophia Almon, lecturer, au-



Henshaw, Daniel, la^vyer and journalist was JKirn May ft. 1782. in Leicester. Mass. He yave up law in order to undertake the editorship of the Lynn Record, which he

iH'came

he

1894

187

thor,

was bom May

31. 1866. in

Nova

Rcotin.

president of the socii-ty for the study of life of New Yorlc City. She is identified with Mothers* congress work; and lectures on The Chihl of the Tenements. She is the author of Woman's Love-letters; Souls; and The Heart of a Woman. Hensley, Walter Lewis, congressman, was lK)rn Si pt. :J. 1871. in .lelferson county. Mo, In lf)ll-I'> he was a member of the sixty* iinrn.,^!-; second an«'c. 7.

18;H.

Fluvanna county. V'a. In 1867 he organized the Memorial church, where he gatberiil the largest protestant i<)ngr<;.'a tion in that city. He is editor of the Baptist Teacher; and since 1908 has filled a pastorate in Boston. Mass. Hensxey, Samuel A., railroad prcMulent. was hom F^b. 16. IWM. in Philadelphia, Pa. n»iriii^' 1S71)-S7 he w.Ts successively trerifral in

manager, vice-president, and president of tile i^ixona central railway; and since 1887 has been president and general manager of the K^'vpt railway and Raleigh and western railway. Hentz. Mrs., was born in 1829 in Cha|»el She was the author of a prhc Hill. N.C. poem entitled A Dream of Locust Dell. A selection of her poems was published by her husband. She died in 1919.