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to the bar in 1886, began pi-actice, and was grad- uated in law from the Universitj' of Texas in 1887. He was mayor of Texarkana in 1890, re- signing to become first oflice assistant attorney- general. He was appointed assistant attorney- general in 1893 and held the position until January-, 1895, when he removed to Waco. He was chairman of the Democratic executive com- mittee of Bowie county for several years. He was a representative from Texas in the 55th, 56th, 57th and 58tii congresses, 1897-1905.

HENRY, Robert Pryor, representative, was born at Henry's Mills, Ky., Nov. 24, 1788; son of Gen. William Henry, major-general in command of the right wing of Shelby's army at the battle of the Thames. Robert was graduated at Transyl- vania college, studied law in the office of Henry Clay and was admitted to practice in 1809, serv- ing the same year as commonwealth's attorney of Scott county. He served on the staff of his father in 1813, and on the return of the army he settled in Christian county and was prosecuting attorney of the circuit. He was a representative from the Logan district in the 18th and 19th con- gresses, 1823-26. On Dec. 20, 1825, he was ap- pointed by the governor, with the concurrence of the senate, appellate judge of Kentucky, but died before accepting the office. He died at Hopkins- ville, Ky., Aug. 23. 1826.

HENRY, Sarepta flyrenda (Irish), reformer, was born in Albion, Pa., Nov. 4, 1839; daughter of the Rev. H. Nelson and Mary A. (Clark) Irish, and a descendant of New England colonial stock on both sides, her paternal ancestors being Quakers, her maternal grandfather a surgeon in the Revolutionary army, and iiis son a captain of militia in the war of 1812. Her father, a Meth- odist minister, removed to northwestern Illinois in 1840, where he was a missionary. She was educated at home and at Rock River seminary, Mount Morris, 111., 1859-61. She was married, March 7, 1861, to James W. Henry, of East Homer, N.Y"., who was made an invalid by his service in the civil war, and died in 1871. She supported her family by her writings, and in 1872 removed to Rockford, 111., where she taught in the public school. She soon resigned to prejiare "After the Truth," a series of books for the Y'outh's Library of the Methodist Episcopal church. She was associated with the national body of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as superintendent of national evangelistic work, and as evangelist, from its organization. She organ- ized the Cold Water Army, later known as the Loyal Temperance Legion; founded the W.C.T.LL Institute for the purpose of teaching the ob- jects and methods of the organization, and occu- pied pulpits of all denominations tliroughout the land. She is the author of: Victoria: icith Other

Poems (1865); After the Truth (4 vols., 187,3); MabeVs Work (1882); The Pledge and the Cross (1882); Voice of the Home (1882); One More Chance (1885); Marble Cross, poems (1886); Be- forehand (1888); The Unanswered Prayer (1889); Frances Raymond's Investment (1889); Afterward (1891); Studies in Home and Child Life (1897); The Abiding Spirit (1898); Good For/H (1900). She died at Grays ville, Tenn., Jan. 16, 1900.

HENRY, Stuart Oliver, author, was born at Clifton Springs, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1860; son of Oliver H. and Harriet H. (Crane) Henry. His mother was a descendant of the Cranes of Say- brook, Conn. He was graduated from the Uni- versity of Kansas, A.B., in 1881; engaged in the wheat business with his brother, 1881-83; travelled and studied in Germany, 1883-84, and on his re- turn to the United States began his literarj- career by contributing articles to the Nation and the Popular Science Monthly. He went to Europe in 1891 and spent nearly five years in Paris studying French literature under Georges Pellissier and other eminent critics. He published articles on. French themes in London periodicals which brought him into notice and acquainted him with many of the leading French authors. He was married in November, 1889, to Nellie, daughter of Judge Solon O. Thacher, of Lawrence, Kan. She died in 1891, and he was married secondly in June. 1895, in London, England, to Georgia, daughter of George N. Johnson, cf Champaign, 111. He is the author of Paris Days and Eve- nings (London, 1896); Hours icith Famous Paris- ians (Chicago, 1897), and French Etudes and Rhapsodies (1899), and contributed to the Con- temporary Review an article entitled " Gray and Gay Race "(1893).

HENRY, Thomas, representative, was born in Ireland, May 16, 1781; son of William Henry, who emigrated to the United States in 1783 and settled in Maryland, removing to Beaver county, Pa., in 1796. Thomas was justice of the peace of Beaver countj', 1808-10; count}' commissioner, 1810-14; captain of Pennsjdvania militia during the war with Great Britain; proprietor and editor of the Western Argus, 1825-31; county treasurer, 1828-29, and was appointed judge iu 1831. He was a representative in the 25th. 26th and 27th congresses, 1837-43. He died at Beaver, Pa.. July 20. 1849.

HENRY, William, inventor, was born in Ches- ter county. Pa.. May 19, 1729. His grandparents, who were Scotch Presbyterians, came from the north of Ireland in 1722 and settled in Penns}'!- Aania. He was a maker of fire-arms and had a forge at Lancaster, Pa. He joined Braddock's expedition as armorer. In 1758 he was made justice of the peace, and in 1771 a comniissioner to lay out a post-road or water-navigation with