Henry, Rev. B.C.
D. D. of Canton China
Benjamin C. Henry was the son of Wilson and Eliza Henry of Indiana Township. He was shown as a 2 month old infant in the 1850 census, and appears with the family in 1860 at age 10.
His brother Joseph, entered the Union Army during the Civil War.
In 1870 Benjamin was listed as a college student in Princeton, New Jersey.
He cannot be found in the 1880 US census because he left for Canton, China on November 1, 1873 as a missionary. He worked in the Kwangtung province of China and in 1892 was appointed the President of the Lingnan Presbyterian University for a period of 2 years. He applied for passports for himself and his wife and children at least twice while in China.
The children were named as Helen, born September 22, 1879, Morris, born January 6, 1886, and Edna, born June 15, 1893, all born in Canton.
On May 2, 1895 the family is listed on the New York Passenger Lists on the "Kaiser Wilhelm II". But by 1900, Benjamin is listed as a patient in the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Morris Plains in Hanover Township, New Jersey.
He died there in June of 1901 at 50 years of age. No cause of death is written in Greenwood records. He was interred on June 24, 1901.
(USGenWeb Archives, contributed by Diane Nichols)
(Information made available for submission to F.A.G. by Michael Foster, 04-13-2011)
Henry, Rev. B.C.
D. D. of Canton China
Benjamin C. Henry was the son of Wilson and Eliza Henry of Indiana Township. He was shown as a 2 month old infant in the 1850 census, and appears with the family in 1860 at age 10.
His brother Joseph, entered the Union Army during the Civil War.
In 1870 Benjamin was listed as a college student in Princeton, New Jersey.
He cannot be found in the 1880 US census because he left for Canton, China on November 1, 1873 as a missionary. He worked in the Kwangtung province of China and in 1892 was appointed the President of the Lingnan Presbyterian University for a period of 2 years. He applied for passports for himself and his wife and children at least twice while in China.
The children were named as Helen, born September 22, 1879, Morris, born January 6, 1886, and Edna, born June 15, 1893, all born in Canton.
On May 2, 1895 the family is listed on the New York Passenger Lists on the "Kaiser Wilhelm II". But by 1900, Benjamin is listed as a patient in the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Morris Plains in Hanover Township, New Jersey.
He died there in June of 1901 at 50 years of age. No cause of death is written in Greenwood records. He was interred on June 24, 1901.
(USGenWeb Archives, contributed by Diane Nichols)
(Information made available for submission to F.A.G. by Michael Foster, 04-13-2011)
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