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Excerpt from Sermon in Memory of T. Charlton Henry: Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, September 7th, 1890
Mr. John S. Henry married Elizabeth I. Bayard,the second daughter of Andrew Bayard and Sarah Pettit. Miss Bayard was descended from Col. John Bayard, of Philadelphia, a colonel in the Revolutionary Army and a warm personal friend of \/vashington. Bancroft, in his History of the United States, describes Colonel Bayard as a patriot of singular purity of character and disinterestedness, personally brave, earnest and devout.
Six children were the result of this marriage: Alex ander, a well - known lawyer in Philadelphia, who was chosen mayor of the city for three successive terms, from 1859 to 1865, and who also filled many other positions of honor and trust; Andrew Bayard, who died in infancy; Sarah, who married the Rev. Samuel A. Clark; Thomas Charlton, Theodosia Bayard and Samuel Betton.
When T. Charlton Henry was four years of age, his father purchased a property in Germantown and removed there with his family. Three years after wards Mr. John S. Henry died, leaving a widow and five children. Mr. T. Charlton Henry received his education in the Germantown Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. Deciding to become a farmer, he went to Chester county in the Spring of 1844; owing to ill health, however, he was compelled to leave the farm, and in the following year became a clerk in a wholesale dry-goods store. After spending four years in this business, upon the first of January, 1849, Mr. Henry commenced business for himself.
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