. Henry genealogy : the descendants of Samuel Henry of Hadley and Amhers, Mass., 1734-1790, and Lurana (Cady) Henry, his wife : with an appendix containing brief accounts of other Henry families. had four children:— i. Joseph,^ born Dec. 17,1799; ii. James, born 1803; died June 13, 1851. He wasa bookseller in Albany, N. Y., married Mrs. Hannah (Conk-ling) Morrow. (Her daughter, Mary Morrow, marriedHuvard Boyd.) They had Harriet,* and John,* who diedwithout issue; and Agnes,* who resides in Albany un-married, iii. Harriet Alexander, married Shankland and had a son Judge William Henry* Shankland
. Henry genealogy : the descendants of Samuel Henry of Hadley and Amhers, Mass., 1734-1790, and Lurana (Cady) Henry, his wife : with an appendix containing brief accounts of other Henry families. had four children:— i. Joseph,^ born Dec. 17,1799; ii. James, born 1803; died June 13, 1851. He wasa bookseller in Albany, N. Y., married Mrs. Hannah (Conk-ling) Morrow. (Her daughter, Mary Morrow, marriedHuvard Boyd.) They had Harriet,* and John,* who diedwithout issue; and Agnes,* who resides in Albany un-married, iii. Harriet Alexander, married Shankland and had a son Judge William Henry* Shankland, and adaughter who married Judge Andrews of Syracuse, , died Apr. 2, 1856, unmarried. i. Joseph Henry, born in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1799;married in May, 1830, his cousin, Harriet L. Alexander ofSchenectady, N. Y. They had four children:— Mary,* theeldest, died in 1903 at Seville, Spain; Helen* died Aug. 7,1912; William Alexander* died in 1862, unmarried; Caro-line* resides 1406 M. St., N. W., Washington, D. C, un-married. Prof. Henry spent his boyhood in Albany and inGalway, Saratoga Co., N. Y. He became Professor ofMathematics in Albany Academy in 1826; Professor of (128). PROF. JOSEPH HENRY (1799-1878) The Henry Genealogy 129 Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, at Prince-ton, in 1832, and was elected the first Secretary and Directorof the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. He received thehonorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Union College in1829, and from Harvard University in 1851. He wasPresident of the American Association for the Advancementof Science in 1849; was chosen President of the U. Academy of Sciences in 1868; President of thePhilosophical Society of Washington in 1871; and chair-man of the Lighthouse Board of the United States in thesame year; the last three positions he continued to filluntil his death. He made contributions to science in elec-tricity, electro-magnetism, meteorology, capillarity, acous-tics, and in other b
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