Henry Cantine Connelly (September 25, 1832 in
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– October 8, 1912 in
Kingston, Ulster County, New York) was an American merchant, manufacturer, banker and politician from
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Life
He was the son of William Connelly (1807–1890) and Margaret Ann (Terpenning) Connelly (1810–1882). The family removed to
Esopus when Henry was still an infant. He attended the common schools, and for one year
Charlotteville Seminary in
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. Then he became a clerk in a store owned by his father and a cousin of his in
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. On April 12, 1854, he married Cornelia A. Aldrich (died 1857). In 1856, he became a partner in the store, and later engaged extensively in the manufacture of
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. In 1858, he married Lucinda Manning, and they had nine children. He was also President of the Kingston Savings Bank and the Kingston National Bank.
He was Supervisor of the Town of Esopus from 1867 to 1870, and a member of the
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(14th D.) in
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...
and
1875
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the ...
; and again in
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
and
1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
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Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes
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was his nephew.
Sources
''Life Sketches of Government Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1875''by W. H. McElroy and Alexander McBride (pg. 51f)
-book''Ex-State Senator H. C. Connelly''in NYT on October 10, 1912
''The History of Ulster County''by
Alphonso T. Clearwater (1907; Vol. 2; pg. 576; re-published 2007)
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1832 births
1912 deaths
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
People from Ulster County, New York
American bankers
Town supervisors in New York (state)
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American businesspeople