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nient for political reasons and President Tyler named Thomas W. Gilman as his successor. He took part in the earlier railroad enterprises of the state and was a projector of the Boston &

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Worcester and of the Boston & Providence rail- roads. He published numerous pamphlets and articles in current reviews, including Letters on Internal Improvement and Commerce of the West (is:?9). He died in Leicester, Mass.. Nov. 11, 1853. HENSHAW, Daniel, clergvman. was born in Baltimore. Md.. Dec. 9, 1822: son of the Rt. Rev. John Prentiss Kewley and Mary (Gorham) Hen- shaw, and grandson of Daniel and Sallie (Pren- tiss) Henshaw and of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) Goriiam. He attended tiio schools of Baltimore until 1838; St. Paul's college, College Point, N.Y., 1838-41, and was graduated from Yale. A.B. 1812, A.M. 1845. and from the Virginia Theological seminary in 1845. He was admitted to deacon's orders in June. 1845. and was or- dained priest in December, 1847, by Bishop Hen- shaw. He .spent the years 1847— I'J in Riiode Island and Maryland; was rector of St. Paul's (Old Narragansett) church, Wickford, R.I., 1849- 53; and was rector of St. Andrew's church, afterward All Saints" Memorial, Providence, R.I., 1854-98. In 1898 he became rector emeritus. He was a member of the triennial general conven- tion of the Protestant Episcopal church, attend- ing every session from 185G to 189G; and a mem- ber of the standing committee of the diocese of Rhode Island, and president of the .same for many years. He was married Oct. 16, 1862, to Rebecca Pitman, daughter of Joseph Warren and Abby Frances (Shaw) Greene, of Brooklyn, N.Y. The honorarj' degree of S.T.D. was conferred upon him by fJriswold college in 1881.

HENSHAW, John Prentiss Kewley, first bishop of Rliode Island and forty-first in suc- cession in the American episcopate, was born in Middletown. Conn., June 13, 1792; .son of Daniel and Sally (Prentiss) Henshaw. His first ancestor in America, Joshua Henshaw, was brought to New England from England with his brother Daniel in

1044. Joiin was graduated at Middlebury college, Vl., A.B., 1S08. A.M., 1811, and S.T.D., 18;JU. He also received the degree of AB., from Harvard in 1808. He was brought up in tlio Congrega- tional church, but soon after graduating, during a visit to his native place, he was bap- tized by the Rev. Dr. Kewley and deter- mined to study for the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal churcli. Bishop Gris- wold of the Eastern Diocese made him a lay-reader and he did successful juissionary work in Vermont, at Marblehead, Mass., and in Bristol, R.I., while pursuing his theological course. He was ordained deacon, June 13, 181:5: and was called to St. Ann's church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and was ordained priest, June 13, 181(i. He was rector of St. Peter's church, Baltimore, Md., 1817-43, and while in that city was active in mission work outside the labors of his large and growing congregation. He was a candidate for bislio)) of Maryland before the diocesan con- ventions of 1828 and 1840, but failed of election, having received a majority, but less than the vote of two-thirds of the clergy, as re- quired by the constitution. In 1843 he was elected first bishop of Rhode Island ami also served as rector of Grace church. Providence, R.I. He is the author of: Usefulness of Su)iday Schools (1833); Henshaw's Sheridan (1834); Communicanfs Guide; Tlieology for the People (1840); Memoir of the Rt. Rev. Channing Moore, D.D. (1842); An Inquiry concerning the Second Advent (1842); The Work of Chri.'it's Living Body (\S43), and other worRs. While officially serving the diocese of Maryland in the al>sfMice of Bishoj) Whittingham. he died in Frederick county. Md.. July 19. 1S.52.

HENSHAW, Joshua Sidney, author, was born in Boston. Mass.. Oct. 10, 1811; a descendant of Jonathan Belcher, colonial governor of Mass- achusetts. His name, originally Joshua Ilenshaw Belcher, was changed by an act of the Penn.syl- vania legislature in 1845. He was educated in the Boston schools, was a teacher in theCliauncy Hall school. Boston, 1833-37. and instructor in mathematics in the U.S. navy. 1837-41, and 1843- 48. In 1838-40 he made a voyage around the world on the frigate Columbia. He w.is ad- mitted to the bar in 1842 and practised in Utica. 1848-59. He published: Philosophy of Human