Henry Fitzhugh
Henry Fitzhugh was an American merchant, businessman and politician from New York.Life
He was the son of Col. William Fitzhugh, Jr. and Ann Fitzhugh. 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 at Groveland, New York.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly 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, were his brothers-in-law.
