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the Ohio river. He was a delegate to the Penn- sylvania assembly in 1776, and was treasurer of Lancaster county, Pa., 1777-^6. He was com- missary in the American army during the Revolu- tion; a delegate to the Continental congress, 1784-85, and jiresident judge of the court of common pleas and (juarter sessions of Lancaster county, 1784-85. In 1 708 he invented the "self- ______ moving or

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pelled by steam power— thus antedating Fitch and Fulton. In 1785 he exliibited the " model of a wheel carriage, which rolls close in against the wind by wind-force." He was a member of the American Pliilosophical societj'. He encouraged Benjamin West, in the dawn of his artistic career, by proposing as a subject for his brush "The Death of Socrates," furnishing him a model from his workmen and purchasing the picture. His .son William, 1757-1827, was a gunsmith, and in 1808 erected a forge at Bush- kill, where the first iron manufactured in the United States was drawn March 9, 1809. He was a presidential elector at large from Pennsyl- vania in 1793, and joined in the unanimous vote that made Washington President of the United States for a second term. His second .son, John Joseph, 1758-1811, was a soldier in Arnold's ex- pedition against Quebec, and i)resident judge of the 2d judicial district of Pennsylvania. He wrote an account of ArnohTs expedition pu))- lished in 1812. William Henry, Sr., died in Lan- caster. Pa.. Der-. 15,1786.

HENRY, William, soldier, was born in Char- lotte county, Va., in 1761. He enlisted in the patriot army as a boy and participated in the battles of Guilford Court House, Cowpens and Yorktown. At the close of the Revolution he re- moved to Kentucky, where he engaged in the wars against the Indians. He was commis- sioned major-general of Kentucky volunteers by Governor Shelby, Aug. 13, 1813, and commanded a division made up of the brigades of Generals Trotter, King and Childs, in the battle of the Thames, Oct. 5, 1813, where his division formed in tliree lines fronting the British regulars; and subsequently served undor Wilkinson and Scott on the Niagara frontier. He was a member from Scott county of the convention that framed the second constitution of Kentucky, assembled at

Frankfort, Aug. 17, 1799; a representative in the state legislature, 1793-94, 1801, and 1809, and a state senator, 1796-1800. He was one of the orig- inal shareholders in the Kentucky River company, chartered Dec. 19, 1801, to improve the naviga- tion of the waters of the state. His sons John Flournoy and Robert Pryor Henry (q, v.) were representatives from Kentucky in congresses from Kentucky. General William Henry died in Christian county, Ky., Nov. 23, 1824.

HENRY, William, representative, was born in New Hampshire in 1788. He attended the com- mon schools and removed to Bellows Falls, Vt., where he devoted himself to mercantile pursuits and was cashier of the Bank of Bellows Falls for fifteen years. He was a member of the board of trustees of the village, and it was on his motion that the act incorporating the village was ac- cepted in 1834. He was a member of the board of fire wardens, 1834-44; a member of the Whig national convention, held at Harrisburg, Pa., tliat nominated William Henry Harrison for President of the United States in 1840; a presi- dential elector in 1840; a Whig representative in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51; and a presidential elector on the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in 1860. He died at Bellows Falls, Vt., April 17, 1861.

HENRY, William Arnon, educator, was born at Norwalk, Oiiio, June 16, 1850; son of William and Martha (Condict) Henry. He spent his youth on a farm and attended the public schools at De- fiance, Ohio, and Holbrook normal school, earn- ing his tuition by teaching school. He was a student at Ohio Wesleyan university, 1869-70; principal of the high school at New Haven, Ind., 1871-73; princi- pal of the high .school at Boulder, Col., 1873- 76; and a student in agriculture at Cor- nell university, New- York, 1876-80, where he was graduated B. Agr. in 1880. He was an assistant to Prof. C. V. Riley of the U. S. entomological commission at Wash- ington, D.C., in the summer of 1879, and instructor in botany at Cornell university, 1879- 80. He was appointed professor of botany and agricultvn-e at tiie University of Wisconsin in 18S0, began work in September, 1880. and in 1883 was relieved of the botanical work and elected proft^ssor of agriculture. He was ap- pointed director of the experimental .station of

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