Henry Fitzhugh (assemblyman)

Henry Fitzhugh (August 7, 1801 "The Hive", Washington County, Maryland - August 11, 1866) was an American merchant, businessman and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Col. William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1761-1839) and Ann (Hughes) Fitzhugh (1771-1829). The family removed in 1816 to a tract of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. On December 11, 1827, Henry married Elizabeth Barbara Carroll (1806-1866, sister of Charles H. Carroll) at Groveland, New York.

He was a member from Oswego County of the New York State Assembly in 1849.

He was a Canal Commissioner from 1852 to 1857, elected in 1851 and 1854 on the Whig ticket.

He was buried at the Williamsburg Cemetery in Groveland, NY.

U.S. presidential candidates James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith were his brothers-in-law.

Sources

• Official State Canvass, in NYT on January 1, 1852
• The Charges against Henry Fitzhugh, in NYT on April 4, 1853
• Whig Convention, in NYT on September 21, 1854, nominating Fitzhugh for re-election
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 42, 237 and 273; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• Fitzhugh genealogy in Upstate Arcadia: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social Differentiation in America by Peter J. Hugill (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, ISBN 0847678563 , ISBN 9780847678563 ; page 50)
• [1] Political Graveyard
• [2] Transcriptions from Gravestones, at RootsWeb
• [3] Fitzhugh genealogy