American politician
Henry Fitzhugh (August 7, 1801 "The Hive", Washington County, Maryland – August 11, 1866) was an American merchant, businessman and politician from New York .
Life
He was the son of Col. William Fitzhugh , Jr. (1761–1839, one of the founders of Rochester, New York ) and Ann (Hughes) Fitzhugh (1771–1829). Baptised and raised in Saint John's Parish , Henry removed with the Fitzhugh family at the age of 15 to a tract of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1816. On December 11, 1827, Henry married Elizabeth Barbara Carroll (1806–1866, sister of Charles H. Carroll ) at Groveland, New York .
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oswego Co.) in 1849. He was a Canal Commissioner from 1852 to 1857, elected on the Whig ticket in the New York state election, 1851 and New York state election, 1854 .
He was buried at the Williamsburg Cemetery in Groveland, NY.
U.S. presidential candidates James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith , and State Senator Frederick F. Backus (1794–1858), were his brothers-in-law.
Sources
Official State Canvass , in NYT on January 1, 1852
The Charges against Henry Fitzhugh , in NYT on April 4, 1853
Whig Convention , in NYT on September 21, 1854, nominating Fitzhugh for re-election
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 42, 237 and 273; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Fitzhugh genealogy in Upstate Arcadia: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social Differentiation in America by Peter J. Hugill (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, ISBN 0-8476-7856-3 , ISBN 978-0-8476-7856-3 ; page 50)
[1] Political Graveyard
[2] Transcriptions from Gravestones, at RootsWeb
[3] Fitzhugh genealogy
(*) elected but declined; (**) elected but died before taking office