Henry Maunsell Schieffelin

Henry Maunsell Schieffelin (New York City, August 7, 1808 – Alexandria, Egypt, July 27, 1890), was an American businessman, philanthropist and consul general in Liberia.[1][2]

Biography

Henry Maunsell Schieffelin was the first son of Henry Hamilton Schieffelin and Maria Theresa (nee Bradhurst) Schieffelin. He married Sarah Louisa Wagstaff in 1835; the couple had no children.[1] After his first wife’s death, Schieffelin married Sarah Minerva Kendall from Augusta, ME, in 1859.[1] The couple had two daughters: Frances (nicknamed Fanny), and Mary (nicknamed Minnie).[1] The family lived in a luxuriously furnished five-story house in Manhattan on 665 Fifth Avenue between East 52nd and East 53rd Street and kept a country home in Greek Revival style, called Ashton, in Yonkers, NY.[1]

Schieffelin was a partner in Schieffelin, managed by his nephew William Henry Schieffelin (son of Henry Maunsell's brother Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin).

Committee work

Schieffelin donated to a school in Liberia that is still called Schieffelin School or Schieffelin Camp today.[1]

Death

Schieffelin died in Alexandria, Egypt, while visiting his daughter Frances Kendall Schieffelin and his son-in-law Ernest Howard Crosby, who was appointed a Judge on the Mixed Tribunals in Alexandria by President Harrison.[1]

References
  1. Scheufele, Michael (2022). Jacob Scheuffelin, currently in Pennsylvania … Five Hundred Years of the Schieffelin Family (PDF). Darmstadt, Germany: wbg Academic. pp. 122–125. ISBN 978-3534450060.
  2. "Henry Maunsell Schieffelin and Family". emuseum.nyhistory.org. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
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