EVAN JAMES HENRY, now living in retirement at the advanced age of ninety years, at No. 100 Stockton street, Princeton, New Jersey, is a representative of the third generation of the Henry family in this country, many members of which have been prominent in the various fields of professional and industrial life. The family came originally from the north of Ireland. William Henry, grandfather of Evan James Henry, was born in the north of Ireland, and emigrated to the United States with his wife and three children in 1783. He followed agricultural pursuits in the western part of Pennsylvania, owning a farm of two hundred acres, which became the homestead of the Henry family. He married, in Ireland, Mary Patton, and had five children. Thomas Henry, third son and child of William and Mary (Patton) Henry, was born in the north of Ireland in 1781, and was but two years of age when he emigrated to America with his parents. He was the commander of a company of Pennsylvania militia in the winter of 1814, with whom he camped on the shore of Lake Erie, near Buffalo, to prevent the Canadians from crossing and burning the city of Buffalo, New York. This was during an extremely severe winter, and Mr. Henry contracted typhus fever, from the after effects of which he was a sufferer during the remainder of his life. He was one of the leading spirits in his community and held a number of public offices, among them being that of sheriff of Beaver county, Pennsylvania; judge of the courts, and served three terms in congress, representing Beaver, Mercer and Lawrence counties. He was a man of some intellectual attainments and was the proprietor, editor and publisher of the Beaver Argus, a paper widely circulated at that time. He married Sarah James, daughter of Evan James, a Welshman then lately arrived in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Evan James Henry, second son of Thomas and Sarah (James) Henry, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1816, and is now living in Princeton, New Jersey, in a comparatively good state of health, considering his age. His early education was acquired in the district schools of his native county, and he then studied law under the preceptorship of Supreme Court Justice Agnew, and was admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania in 1839, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and then practiced his profession for several years in Beaver county. He then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he obtained a considerable practice, remaining there for a period of twelve years. He was stricken with the cholera in 1849, and was obliged to give up his legal work. He traveled in Europe for a time in order to benefit his health, and finally removed to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1866, where he has since resided, retired from active participation in business affairs, but keeping in touch with the world and its affairs of importance. He is a man of intelligence and keen powers of observation, and has always been accounted a desirable addition to any social gathering. He is a ready, fluent talker. He was an old line Whig and never changed his politics. Mr. Henry married. September, 1845, Lucy Maxwell Rigg, born in Scotland, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Maxwell) Rigg, both natives of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have had children: 1. Thomas, a lawyer, engaged in the practice of his profession in Washington, District of Columbia. He married Lillie Brown, of Virginia, and they have six children. 2. Caroline. 3. Francis M., married Louise McNair, and has one child, Louise. 4. Lucy M. 5. Sarah, married Professor Casper W. Hodge, of the old Hodge family of Princeton, and has one child, Lucy. 6. William H. __________________ Linda M. Thank lthank@turboisp.com __________________