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Title: Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Norris Galpin, b. 1858, ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- Biography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., W.R. Goodspeed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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His interest in education and religion for great fruit in 1878, when he brought
about the re-
establishment of reading the Bible in the public schools,
which had previously been abolished. He has been several times a
delegate to the National Board of Trade.
Fraternally and socially Mr. Sperry has many interests and
honors. He is a thirty-third degree Mason and was Master of Wooster
Lodge for many years. He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows
and of other societies and orders, including the Quinnipiack Club, of
which he was president for many years. He has been twice married.
His first wife, Eliza H. Sperry, died in 1847, and in 1875 he married
Minnie B. Newton of Lockport, New York.
Mr. Sperry is widely recognized as a man of great influence,
nobility of character, business ability and public spirit. He is
above everything else characterized by fidelity to principle and faithful-
ness to duty and these qualities added to his rare mental powers and
executive ability have made his success as deserved as it is great and
manifold. Mr. Sperry was unanimously re-nominated for Congressman,
October 2nd, 1906.
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EDWARD STEVENS HENRY
HENRY, EDWARD STEVENS, prominent in the financial and
political affairs of Rockville, Connecticut, public man, ex-
congressman and extensive real estate owner, was born in
Gill, Massachusetts, February 10th, 1836. The Henry family is of
Scotch-Irish descent and traces its ancestry to Hugh Henry, a sturdy
yeoman of northern England who fought under William of Orange in
the Battle of the Boyne and whose son, Hugh Henry, came from Cole-
raine, Ireland, to Colerain, Massachusetts, in 1738 and founded the
American branch of the family. Benjamin Henry, son of Hugh, was
a soldier in the French and Indian Wars under General Putnam, was
for seventeen years a member of Legislature and also participated in
the Revolution. The present Mr. Henrys father was Edward Fish
Henry, a teacher and farmer. Mr. Henry's mother was Eliza A.
Stevens, and through her he is descended from early English
colonists.
Edward Stevens Henry was the oldest of six children and began
to take personal responsibilities at an early age.

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