Planter, lawyer and statesman.
He was the son of Andrew Henshaw and Elizabeth Isbell; grandson of Capt. David Henshaw and Mary (Sargent) Henshaw, John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell.
Nephew of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Fourth-great-grandson of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins who came on the Mayflower.
The parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Isbell) Henshaw, settled in the Alabama Territory before 1817.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw was born Nov. 7, 1825 and died August 23, 1865. He graduated from the University of Alabama, 1845; attended Harvard University, 1845-7, studying Latin under William Wordsworth Longfellow and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, the Fly Club, the A.D. Club, Alpha Delta Phi. Left Harvard in 1847, a full year and a half before the notorious Parkman-Webster scandal there ("Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard" by Paul Collins). Received the LL.B. degree from William and Mary College, 1848.
Married his cousin Mary Anderson Isbell, August 18, 1848, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Richmond (Virginia) Whig & Public Advertiser, August 25, 1848, p. 4, column 4: " Married- At Willow Banks on Aug. 18, by Rev. Olcott Bulkley, Andrew I. Henshaw of Alabama, to Miss Polly A. Isbell of Cumberland County, Va. "
She was the daughter of James Isbell and Mary Daniel (Montague) Isbell and a second cousin William Letane Montague, the grandfather of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw represented Clarke County in the Alabama legislature, 1851-52, and was Lieutenant of Captain E. Mills' Company, Monroe County Militia, the home guard during the Civil War. He and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw had just one daughter, Mary Montague Henshaw, who married Judge Harry T. Toulmin.
Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama (1872) by William Garrett, pp. 570-71: CHAPTER XXXI. Session of 1851.
"ANDREW ISBELL HENSHAW, of Clarke, a graduate of the University of Alabama, was a member, and served only through the session of 1851. He belonged to the Union wing of the Democratic party, and was warmly in favor of the compromise measures as a guaranty of future peace and security to the South. While this question was up in the House, he made a speech, reviewing the progress of this controversy between the North and the South, in which he exhibited a thorough knowledge of the issues involved, and gained a good deal of character for one so young, and a new member. He was quite animated in debate, and becoming excited, he was somewhat extravagant in manner and gesticulation(,) all, however, in consonance with his subject. Mr. Henshaw was pleasant in conversation, and altogether agreeable in his social relations. He was related to the gentleman of that name who was President Fillmore's Secretary of the Navy, from Boston, and was regarded as opulent in a pecuniary sense, and withal a good citizen. He died a few years ago, by the time he had attained the meridian of life."
A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901 (1901), p.6, gives his birth date as Nov. 27 and death date August 22.
Alabama Genealogical Register vol. 4-5 p.138 gives birth date Nov. 27, death date August 23.
Deep South Genealogical Quarterly vol 14-15 p.80 gives death date Aug. 23, 1865, age 39 years, 11 months, 16 days.
He was the son of Andrew Henshaw and Elizabeth Isbell; grandson of Capt. David Henshaw and Mary (Sargent) Henshaw, John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell.
Nephew of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Fourth-great-grandson of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins who came on the Mayflower.
The parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Isbell) Henshaw, settled in the Alabama Territory before 1817.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw was born Nov. 7, 1825 and died August 23, 1865. He graduated from the University of Alabama, 1845; attended Harvard University, 1845-7, studying Latin under William Wordsworth Longfellow and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, the Fly Club, the A.D. Club, Alpha Delta Phi. Left Harvard in 1847, a full year and a half before the notorious Parkman-Webster scandal there ("Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard" by Paul Collins). Received the LL.B. degree from William and Mary College, 1848.
Married his cousin Mary Anderson Isbell, August 18, 1848, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Richmond (Virginia) Whig & Public Advertiser, August 25, 1848, p. 4, column 4: " Married- At Willow Banks on Aug. 18, by Rev. Olcott Bulkley, Andrew I. Henshaw of Alabama, to Miss Polly A. Isbell of Cumberland County, Va. "
She was the daughter of James Isbell and Mary Daniel (Montague) Isbell and a second cousin William Letane Montague, the grandfather of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw represented Clarke County in the Alabama legislature, 1851-52, and was Lieutenant of Captain E. Mills' Company, Monroe County Militia, the home guard during the Civil War. He and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw had just one daughter, Mary Montague Henshaw, who married Judge Harry T. Toulmin.
Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama (1872) by William Garrett, pp. 570-71: CHAPTER XXXI. Session of 1851.
"ANDREW ISBELL HENSHAW, of Clarke, a graduate of the University of Alabama, was a member, and served only through the session of 1851. He belonged to the Union wing of the Democratic party, and was warmly in favor of the compromise measures as a guaranty of future peace and security to the South. While this question was up in the House, he made a speech, reviewing the progress of this controversy between the North and the South, in which he exhibited a thorough knowledge of the issues involved, and gained a good deal of character for one so young, and a new member. He was quite animated in debate, and becoming excited, he was somewhat extravagant in manner and gesticulation(,) all, however, in consonance with his subject. Mr. Henshaw was pleasant in conversation, and altogether agreeable in his social relations. He was related to the gentleman of that name who was President Fillmore's Secretary of the Navy, from Boston, and was regarded as opulent in a pecuniary sense, and withal a good citizen. He died a few years ago, by the time he had attained the meridian of life."
A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901 (1901), p.6, gives his birth date as Nov. 27 and death date August 22.
Alabama Genealogical Register vol. 4-5 p.138 gives birth date Nov. 27, death date August 23.
Deep South Genealogical Quarterly vol 14-15 p.80 gives death date Aug. 23, 1865, age 39 years, 11 months, 16 days.
Planter, lawyer and statesman.
He was the son of Andrew Henshaw and Elizabeth Isbell; grandson of Capt. David Henshaw and Mary (Sargent) Henshaw, John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell.
Nephew of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Fourth-great-grandson of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins who came on the Mayflower.
The parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Isbell) Henshaw, settled in the Alabama Territory before 1817.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw was born Nov. 7, 1825 and died August 23, 1865. He graduated from the University of Alabama, 1845; attended Harvard University, 1845-7, studying Latin under William Wordsworth Longfellow and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, the Fly Club, the A.D. Club, Alpha Delta Phi. Left Harvard in 1847, a full year and a half before the notorious Parkman-Webster scandal there ("Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard" by Paul Collins). Received the LL.B. degree from William and Mary College, 1848.
Married his cousin Mary Anderson Isbell, August 18, 1848, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Richmond (Virginia) Whig & Public Advertiser, August 25, 1848, p. 4, column 4: " Married- At Willow Banks on Aug. 18, by Rev. Olcott Bulkley, Andrew I. Henshaw of Alabama, to Miss Polly A. Isbell of Cumberland County, Va. "
She was the daughter of James Isbell and Mary Daniel (Montague) Isbell and a second cousin William Letane Montague, the grandfather of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw represented Clarke County in the Alabama legislature, 1851-52, and was Lieutenant of Captain E. Mills' Company, Monroe County Militia, the home guard during the Civil War. He and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw had just one daughter, Mary Montague Henshaw, who married Judge Harry T. Toulmin.
Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama (1872) by William Garrett, pp. 570-71: CHAPTER XXXI. Session of 1851.
"ANDREW ISBELL HENSHAW, of Clarke, a graduate of the University of Alabama, was a member, and served only through the session of 1851. He belonged to the Union wing of the Democratic party, and was warmly in favor of the compromise measures as a guaranty of future peace and security to the South. While this question was up in the House, he made a speech, reviewing the progress of this controversy between the North and the South, in which he exhibited a thorough knowledge of the issues involved, and gained a good deal of character for one so young, and a new member. He was quite animated in debate, and becoming excited, he was somewhat extravagant in manner and gesticulation(,) all, however, in consonance with his subject. Mr. Henshaw was pleasant in conversation, and altogether agreeable in his social relations. He was related to the gentleman of that name who was President Fillmore's Secretary of the Navy, from Boston, and was regarded as opulent in a pecuniary sense, and withal a good citizen. He died a few years ago, by the time he had attained the meridian of life."
A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901 (1901), p.6, gives his birth date as Nov. 27 and death date August 22.
Alabama Genealogical Register vol. 4-5 p.138 gives birth date Nov. 27, death date August 23.
Deep South Genealogical Quarterly vol 14-15 p.80 gives death date Aug. 23, 1865, age 39 years, 11 months, 16 days.
He was the son of Andrew Henshaw and Elizabeth Isbell; grandson of Capt. David Henshaw and Mary (Sargent) Henshaw, John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah (Anderson) Isbell.
Nephew of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Fourth-great-grandson of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins who came on the Mayflower.
The parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Isbell) Henshaw, settled in the Alabama Territory before 1817.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw was born Nov. 7, 1825 and died August 23, 1865. He graduated from the University of Alabama, 1845; attended Harvard University, 1845-7, studying Latin under William Wordsworth Longfellow and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, the Fly Club, the A.D. Club, Alpha Delta Phi. Left Harvard in 1847, a full year and a half before the notorious Parkman-Webster scandal there ("Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard" by Paul Collins). Received the LL.B. degree from William and Mary College, 1848.
Married his cousin Mary Anderson Isbell, August 18, 1848, in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Richmond (Virginia) Whig & Public Advertiser, August 25, 1848, p. 4, column 4: " Married- At Willow Banks on Aug. 18, by Rev. Olcott Bulkley, Andrew I. Henshaw of Alabama, to Miss Polly A. Isbell of Cumberland County, Va. "
She was the daughter of James Isbell and Mary Daniel (Montague) Isbell and a second cousin William Letane Montague, the grandfather of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
Andrew Isbell Henshaw represented Clarke County in the Alabama legislature, 1851-52, and was Lieutenant of Captain E. Mills' Company, Monroe County Militia, the home guard during the Civil War. He and Mary Anderson Isbell Henshaw had just one daughter, Mary Montague Henshaw, who married Judge Harry T. Toulmin.
Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama (1872) by William Garrett, pp. 570-71: CHAPTER XXXI. Session of 1851.
"ANDREW ISBELL HENSHAW, of Clarke, a graduate of the University of Alabama, was a member, and served only through the session of 1851. He belonged to the Union wing of the Democratic party, and was warmly in favor of the compromise measures as a guaranty of future peace and security to the South. While this question was up in the House, he made a speech, reviewing the progress of this controversy between the North and the South, in which he exhibited a thorough knowledge of the issues involved, and gained a good deal of character for one so young, and a new member. He was quite animated in debate, and becoming excited, he was somewhat extravagant in manner and gesticulation(,) all, however, in consonance with his subject. Mr. Henshaw was pleasant in conversation, and altogether agreeable in his social relations. He was related to the gentleman of that name who was President Fillmore's Secretary of the Navy, from Boston, and was regarded as opulent in a pecuniary sense, and withal a good citizen. He died a few years ago, by the time he had attained the meridian of life."
A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901 (1901), p.6, gives his birth date as Nov. 27 and death date August 22.
Alabama Genealogical Register vol. 4-5 p.138 gives birth date Nov. 27, death date August 23.
Deep South Genealogical Quarterly vol 14-15 p.80 gives death date Aug. 23, 1865, age 39 years, 11 months, 16 days.
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