Horace Chapin Henry
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Horace Chapin Henry (October 6, 1844
Biography
He was born at the Henry House in Bennington, Vermont, in October, 1844.[2]
He left Norwich Military School (better known as
After the war he was a partner in Henry & Balch working on railroad construction in the Midwest. He moved to Seattle in 1890 to work on the
Henry's 1901 home in the
He was president of the Metropolitan Bank and
In 1911, after the death of a son to tuberculosis, he donated land and funds to open Henry Sanatorium in Seattle, later renamed Firland Tuberculosis Hospital.[8]
He was an investor in, and vice president of, the Metropolitan Building Company, which developed the
For his personal contributions and efforts to collect funds for the Fatherless Children of France, a charity for wartime
He donated his art collection, which he formerly kept at his home and opened to the public for display, to the University of Washington in 1926 and donated the funds to build a new gallery to house the collection, which was to be the Henry Art Gallery.[13]
Henry died in his sleep in his Seattle home on June 28, 1928, and is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle.
After his life
In 1934, his sons donated land (including his original house) to the city for construction of a library. This was swapped for a smaller parcel closer to the Broadway shopping district, to become the Susan J. Henry branch of the Seattle Public Library, named for his wife. The branch was rebuilt and renamed in 2003 to the Capitol Hill Branch.[14][15]
The
Eagle Harbor was designated a superfund site in 1987 due to pollution from the creosote plant. See Pacific Creosoting Company.
Notes
- ^ a b Snowden, p. 103
- ^ Hoggson, p. 3
- ^ Hoggson, pp. 18-20
- ^ Hoggson, pp. 25-77
- ^ NPS Seattle Travel Itinerary: Harvard-Belmont Historic District
- ^ Hoggson, p. 84
- ^ Naval-History.net
- ^ Paula Becker (July 29, 2002), "Firland Sanatorium, Seattle's municipal tuberculosis hospital, opens as Henry Sanatorium on May 2, 1911", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink
- ^ "White-Henry-Stuart Buildings". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 29, 2021.
- Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, archived from the originalon November 26, 2011, retrieved September 28, 2012
- ^ Snowden p. 106
- ^ Hoggson, p. 132
- ^ Hoggson, pp. 146-147
- ^ Henry Branch (historylink.org)
- ^ Capitol Hill Branch (SPL)
References
- Hoggson, Noble (1960). A Biography of Horace Chapin Henry, 1844-1928. Seattle: The Craftsman Press. ISBN 1258119889.
- Clinton Snowden (1909), History of Washington; the rise and progress of an American state, vol. 5, Century History Company
- Seattle: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary, US National Park Service
- Extracted from "British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-1918" by HMSO, 1919, at naval-history.net
- "Henry Branch, The Seattle Public Library, and its Neighborhood", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink, December 6, 2000
- "About the Capitol Hill Branch: History". Seattle Public Library. Retrieved December 13, 2012.