Born in 1898 inside of the Phillips House Hotel at the corner of Third and Main St. Dayton, Ohio. His father John was the manager of the hotel from 1895 until it was torn down in 1926. He was born in the same bed that Abraham Lincoln slept in for a nap in 1859 when he came to Dayton to give a speech. After he learned to walk he would walk around in the lobby of the hotel and entertain all the guest. The Phillips House was the grandest hotel in Dayton. In April of 1899 when Henry was 18 months old his mother Katherine was called to her home town of Cleveland to visit her mother Louisa who was reported to be dying of cancer. John and Katherine boarded a train with Henry and took the train to Cleveland. After a visit with the sick mother John and Katherine decided to take a horse and carriage ride in Gordon Park with Katherine's sister Anna Ohmer and her husband John and their child. While out on a warm spring afternoon the horse's got spooked by some blowing paper in the road way inside the park and reared up and took off. John Breen tried desperately to get the horses under control. After he did the family tried to get off the carriage to calm the horses and John while holding his son Henry slipped and fell on the child. A passing carriage stopped and took them to a near by pharmacy where the child Henry died. Louisa did not die for several more months but continued to ask for her grandchild and know body would tell her that he had passed away.
Born in 1898 inside of the Phillips House Hotel at the corner of Third and Main St. Dayton, Ohio. His father John was the manager of the hotel from 1895 until it was torn down in 1926. He was born in the same bed that Abraham Lincoln slept in for a nap in 1859 when he came to Dayton to give a speech. After he learned to walk he would walk around in the lobby of the hotel and entertain all the guest. The Phillips House was the grandest hotel in Dayton. In April of 1899 when Henry was 18 months old his mother Katherine was called to her home town of Cleveland to visit her mother Louisa who was reported to be dying of cancer. John and Katherine boarded a train with Henry and took the train to Cleveland. After a visit with the sick mother John and Katherine decided to take a horse and carriage ride in Gordon Park with Katherine's sister Anna Ohmer and her husband John and their child. While out on a warm spring afternoon the horse's got spooked by some blowing paper in the road way inside the park and reared up and took off. John Breen tried desperately to get the horses under control. After he did the family tried to get off the carriage to calm the horses and John while holding his son Henry slipped and fell on the child. A passing carriage stopped and took them to a near by pharmacy where the child Henry died. Louisa did not die for several more months but continued to ask for her grandchild and know body would tell her that he had passed away.
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