The Colonel was a coal operator and shipper at Philadelphia, and a native of this state. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The family were Quakers, and belonging as they did to the Society of Friends, they believed in no outward ceremony, no religious observances, but held that no form of worship is so good as a patient waiting on the Lord in silence. Colonel Henry died at the advanced age of seventy years. The family traditions preserve the family patronymic through its descent on the mother's side, and trace it unmistakably to the fountain-head, which was that of Cotton Mather, of Massachusetts.