BIO: General Nelson Herrick Henry; New York State
surname: Henry

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     General Nelson Herrick Henry, the Adjutant-General, was born in State
Island on April 27, 1855. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in the class of 1879. He represented the old Fifth Assembly district
of Ne York city in the Assembly from 1899 to 1901 and showed great interest in
all measures affecting the public health and the National Guard. In the
Spanish War President McKinley made him Chief Surgeon of Division, with the
rank of Major. He served in the camps at Tampa, Fla., and Huntsville, Ala. He
has been Chief Surgeon, with the rank of Colonel on the staff of Gen. Charles
F. Roe, commanding the National Guard, for years. Governor Odell in 1901
appointed him Adjutant-Geneal to succeed Brigadier-General Edward M. Hoffman.
He was appointed by Governor Higgins in 1905. Then he was reapponted by
Governor Hughes, and was reappointed by the latter in 1909 for a two-year
term.