John Henry (Maryland politician)
John Henry | |
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8th James Lloyd | |
Personal details | |
Born | November 1750 Democratic-Republican |
Spouse |
Margaret Campbell
(m. 1787; died 1789) |
Children | John Campbell Henry Francis Jenkins Henry |
Alma mater | College of New Jersey |
John Henry (November 1750 – December 16, 1798) was the
Early life
John Henry was born in November 1750. He was the son of Dorothy Rider and Col. John Henry and the grandson of Rev. John Henry, a Presbyterian minister who came to America in the early 1700s.[2] His grandmother, Mary King, was the daughter of an Irish baronet.[2] His mother was a descendant of one of the early settlers of Dorchester County.[2]
Henry attended West Nottingham Academy in Cecil County, Maryland and graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1769; he then studied law at the Middle Temple (one of the Inns of Court where English barristers are trained) in London.[3] He returned to the United States in 1775 and practiced law in Dorchester County.[1]
Career
He was a member of the
Henry served as a member of
In the
Personal life
On March 6, 1787, Henry was married to Margaret Campbell (1769–1789), the daughter of John and Elizabeth (
- John Campbell Henry (1787–1857), who married Mary Nevett Steele (1789–1873), the daughter of James Steele (1760–1816) and a sister of John Nevett Steele and Isaac Nevett Steele, a Baltimore lawyer.[6]
- Francis Jenkins Henry (b. 1789), who died unmarried soon after becoming of age.[6]
He died in Dorchester County, at Weston, the same estate where he had been born. Henry is buried in Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery in Cambridge.[7]
Descendants
Henry was a grandfather to John and Mary's eight children,[7] John Francis Henry (1813–1847), Dr. James Winfield Henry (1815–1889), Francis Jenkins Henry (1816–1902), Catherine Henry Lloyd (1818–1886), Daniel Maynadier Henry (1823–1899), Isabella Elizabeth Henry Steele (1825–1912), Mary Henry Goldsborough (1828–1911), Rider Henry (1828–1900), and Charlotte Augusta Page Henry Goldsborough (1834–1908).[6]
External links
- Notes
- ^ a b c d "HENRY, John - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ ISBN 9780403098224. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ Buchholz, Heinrich Ewald (1908). Governors of Maryland: from the revolution to the year 1908. Williams & Wilkins Company. p. 237. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ The National Cyclopedia of American Biography Vol. 1. J. T. White. 1899. pp. 294–295. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ISBN 9780813938974. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Henry, John (1904). Letters and Papers of Governor John Henry of Maryland: Member of Continental Congress 1777–1788, Member of United States Senate 1789–1797, Governor of Maryland, 1797–1798. With Some Account of His Life, Genealogy and Descendants, as Shown by Extracts from Records and Papers in the Maryland Historical Society, and Original Letters and Memoranda in the Hands of the Compiler, One of His Great-grandsons, J. Winfield Henry. G. W. King Printing Company. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ a b c Jones, Elias (1902). History of Dorchester County, Maryland. Williams & Wilkins. p. 304. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
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