Windsor

HENRY, Hugh

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 219

Hugh HENRY, Chester, lawyer, was born 21 March 1838 at Chester [Windsor 
County, Vermont], son of Hugh H. and Sarah (HENRY) HENRY. Educated at 
Chester and Deerfield Academies. Admitted to the Vermont bar May 1862. 
Lieutenant of Company I, Sixteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers; participated 
in the battle of Gettysburg. Judge of probate, district of Windsor, December 
1884 to June 1898; U. S. pension agent, Concord [Merrimack County], New 
Hampshire, from 01 July 1898 to 01 July 1906; director, National Bank of 
Bellows Falls [Windham County, Vermont] since July 1873, and president since 
January 1909; trustee Bellows Falls Savings Institution since January 1887; 
director of Vermont Valley Railroad since 1883, and vice president since 
1909. Republican; represented Chester in the state Legislature 1870, 1872, 
1874, 1876, and 1884; senator from Windsor County 1880. Unitarian. Member 
of Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Grand Army of the 
Republic, and Military Order Loyal Legion. In January 1872 [Hugh HENRY] 
married [first wife] Miss Emma J. ORDWAY of Chester; she [Emma J. (ORDWAY) 
HENRY] died in September 1872. In 1873 [Hugh HENRY] married [second wife] 
Miss Alice A. ORDWAY [related to his first wife?] of Chester; they [Hugh and 
Alice A. (ORDWAY) HENRY] have two children: Emma C., and Hugh H.

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