John Hardin McHenry, Sr.

Birth Date

1797-10-13

Death Date

1871-11-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney. Washington County, Kentucky, native. Son of Barnabas McHenry and Sarah Hardin McHenry. Married to Hannah Davis McHenry in 1828. Father of Henry D. McHenry, William McHenry, John H. McHenry, Sarah E. McHenry, Mary J. McHenry, Lemuel S. McHenry, and Wallace E. McHenry. Member of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1840. Whig representative from the 2nd district of Kentucky in the House of Representatives of the United States from 1843 to 1847. President and representative from Ohio and Hancock counties to the Kentucky state constitutional convention of 1849. Attorney in Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Ohio County in 1850. Attorney and circuit court judge in Owensboro, Kentucky, from 1854. Attorney in Owensboro in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Owensboro in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 44B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 6.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 945.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 1.
John Howard Brown, ed., Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, vol. 5: Leaming-Newton (Boston, MA: Federal Book Company of Boston, 1903), 250.
Alice Louise McDuffie, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 106 (Washington, D.C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1929), 307.
Find A Grave, "John Hardin McHenry Sr. (1797-1871)," Memorial #6877516, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6877516 (accessed November 12, 2020).

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