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     Henry Sewall was born on 19 January 1748/49 in Brookline, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Henry Sewall and Ann White. Henry Sewall graduated in 1768 from Harvard.² He died on 17 October 1772 in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 23 never married.^2,3

      Henry Sewall was living in Bath.² He was born on 7 February 1740 in York, Maine, (or 23 Feb 1739).^3,4,5 He was the son of Capt. Samuel Sewall and Sarah Batchelder.¹ Henry Sewall married first Mary Stinson, daughter of John Stinson and Jane Huston, on 31 January 1764.^4,6,7,8 In 1775 served on the Committee of Safety and in the Provincial Congress.⁴ Henry Sewall married Sarah Henry, daughter of James Henry, on 18 November 1779 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.⁹ Henry Sewall died on 24 January 1795 in Bath, Maine, at the age of 54.^4,5

     Henry Sewall was born on 7 December 1685 "about One in the Night my Wife is brought to bed of a Son."^1,2 He was the son of Chief Justice Samuel E. Sewall and Hannah Hull.¹ Henry Sewall was baptised on 13 December 1685 "Mr. Willard baptizeth my Son lately born, whom I named Henry.² He died on 22 December 1685 "about Sun-rise, or a little after, he fell asleep, I hope in Jesus, and that a mansion was ready for him in the Father's House. Died in Nurse Hill's Lap."³ He was buried on 24 December 1685.³

     Henry Sewall married Elizabeth Lawson.¹ Henry Sewall was born before 1702. He was the son of Major Nicholas Sewall and Susanna Burgess. Henry Sewall died on 7 May 1722 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.^1,2

     Henry Sewall was the son of Nicholas Lewis Sewall and Mary Darnell.¹

     Henry Sewall was born before 1737 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.¹ He was the son of Charles Sewall and Eleanor Brooke.¹ Henry Sewall married Mary (Unknown) before 1757.¹ Henry Sewall died in 1779 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.¹

     Henry Sewall was born on 3 June 1764 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.² He was the son of Henry Sewall and Mary (Unknown).¹ Henry Sewall died after 1807.¹

     Henry Sewall was born on 3 December 1822 in Augusta, Maine.² He was the son of Charles Sewall and Sophia Gill.¹ He was for a number of years in the shoe business in Augusta with Stephen Deering. On the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted and served in the 9th Maine Regiment through the South Carolina Campaign. He was afterwards attached to the 19th Maine Regiment, first as sergeant and subsequently as lieutenant and captain. During the closing years of the war he was adjutant of the regiment. He was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg but remained with his regiment and participated in all the subsequent movements of the army under General Grant. Soon after the war he was appointed Superintendant of County Buildings.^3,4 Henry Sewall married Harriet Virginia Smith on 3 November 1847.⁵ Henry Sewall shot himself on 5 September 1887 in Augusta, Maine, at the age of 64.^3,6

     Henry Sewall was born circa 1799.¹ He was the son of Rev. Henry Sewall and Esther Minot Moody.¹ Henry Sewall married Grace Hallahan on 16 September 1834 in Groton.² Henry Sewall died on 15 October 1865.¹ He was buried in Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine.³

     Colonel Henry Sewall was born in 1624.² He was the son of Richard Sewall and Mary Dugdale.¹ Colonel Henry Sewall was Roman Catholic. He married Jane Lowe, daughter of Vincent Lowe and Ann Cavendish, circa 1654 in England.^3,4 Colonel Henry Sewall and Jane Lowe emigrated in 1661 to Maryland.⁵ On 20 August 1661 "Henry Sewell formerly of London, England, but now of Calvert County, Maryland" was commissioned Councillor, Secretary, and Judge of the probate of Wills for the Province (Md. Archives iii, 439), and he held these offices until his death.³ Colonel Henry Sewall made a will on 25 April 1664 in which he states that he intends to sail for England during the current year, and at a Council Meeting held 6 September 1664, "Henry Sewell Esq. being called was returned absent in England" (Md. Archives i, 509). His will was proved 17 April 1665.³ He died in 1665 either in England or on the voyage from Maryland.^1,6

     Dr. Henry Sewall was born on 25 May 1855 in Winchester, Virginia.^2,3 He was the son of Rev. Thomas Sewall and Julia Elizabeth Waters.¹ Dr. Henry Sewall married Isabel Josephine Vickers, daughter of J.J. Vickers, on 21 September 1887.^4,3 Dr. Henry Sewall died on 8 July 1936 in Denver at the age of 81 from a coronary thrombosis. s.n.p. He received his preparatory education in private schools in Baltimore and Brooklyn, and entered Wesleyan University, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1876. He then took up postgraduate work at John Hopkins University, where he was Assistant in Biology from 1876 to 1878, Fellow in Biology in 1878-1879, and where he received his Ph.D. Over the following year he studied in Europe, and after that became Associate in Biology at John Hopkins University. In 1881 he was called to the Professorship of Physiology at the University of Michigan, where he performed research on equilibrium, muscle contraction, respiration and colour vision, and is best known for immunizing animals against snake venom, demonstrating the principle of antitoxin production. He held this position to 1889, when he moved to Denver, Colorado, and accepting a similar position in the University of Denver. He was Assistant Health Commissioner of Denver, 1891 to 1893. Secretary Colorado State Board of Health, 1893-1899; visiting physician to St. Luke's and Denver County Hospitals from 1891. He was a member of the American Physiological Society, of the Association of American Physicians, the American Climatological Society, and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Henry Sewall and his wife, Isabel, bought a house at 1380 Vine St. in 1904. Dr. Sewall had struggled with illness as a child and because of this he was extremely interested in helping children develop. Dr. Sewall and Isabel willed their home to the cause of helping children with special needs. Dr. Sewall died in 1936 at the age of 81. The Sewall Child Development center was founded in 1944.⁵



No tribute to our late colleague, Dr. Henry Sewall, could be better penned than this quotation for Hippocrates. The passing of one who gave his life to the science and art of medicine rather than to enrichment is no common event.
It was his instinct to seek to answer the "wherefore" of every "why" and in his presence one could almost sense the emanations of intellect. The spirit to seek out Nature's secrets had existed in a grandfather, Thomas Sewall, who was graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1812. The literary talent, which enriched his publications, came from his father, a clergyman, known as the "silver-tongued Sewall." Such inherited traits were enhanced by the lifelong help and devotion of his wife, with whom we now share her great sorrow.
It has been well written that "Perhaps there is no science which requires so penetrating an intellect, so much talent and genius, so much force of mind, so much acuteness and memory, as the science of medicine. The high character of a perfect master of the art must be the result of a combination of a multiplicity of qualifications, which must be partly natural, and partly acquired and improved by laborious cultivation." It was such a combination which made of Henry Sewall a great physician, scholar and gentleman.
In early life it was the good fortune of Henry Sewall to work under two great physiologists - Michael Foster in England, and Carl Ludwig in Germany. Of Michael Foster, Sewall wrote, "He despised the foible of vanity and had no patience with mercenary inclinations." In Carl Ludwig, Sewall admired the dogged determination to complete an experiment, and he later wrote, "It set me to thinking perhaps it was this sort of thing that made Ludwig preeminent." It is easy to see the influence of these great men in the life of Henry Sewall, and it was such an influence he passed on successfully to another generation.
Pondering over Jenner's vaccination, Pasteur discovered that the inoculation of attenuated organisms of chicken cholera resulted in immunization. Pondering over Pasteur's publications Henry Sewall was led to investigate the possible immunization of pigeons to rattlesnake venom. It was known that pigeons were peculiarly sensitive to rattlesnake venom. First determining the minimum fatal dose, Henry Sewall, in 1887, by repeated inoculations of sub-minimal doses successfully immunized pigeons to this poisonous protein. These experiments were recognized in Europe as the foundation on which the development of antitoxins was built. Physicians from all parts of the world have stood in reverence before the tablet erected at Ann Arbor to commemorate the experiments of Henry Sewall, the former Professor of Physiology at the University of Michigan.
Pulmonary tuberculosis brought Henry Sewall to Denver, and the courage with which he met this affliction and its complications and the triumph over typhoid, with rib necrosis, is well known to his friends. No better basis for medical practice exists than a training in physiology, and the Ph.D. of Johns Hopkins of 1879 became an M.D. of the University of Denver in 18S9. The man of thought became the medical practitioner and thus was fulfilled another Hippocratic maxim: "For many cases need, not reasoning, but practical help."
The practice of medicine was illuminated by the spirit of investigation, and in heart disease and in tuberculosis the research spirit of Henry Sewall prevailed. For many years he worked in and inspired the research department of the National Jewish Hospital.
To have been president of the Colorado State Medical Society, of the National Tuberculosis Association, of the American Climatological and Clinical Association, and of the Association of American Physicians; to have been the recipient of the Kober medal of the Association of American Physicians and of the Trudeau medal of the National Tuberculosis Association - such are honors in recognition of worth which few physicians can attain.
As a practitioner, and as a consultant in internal medicine, his consideration, understanding, gentleness, and effort will live in the medical history of Colorado just as his scientific spirit will live in the medical history of the world.
A splendid portrait of Dr. Sewall by McClymont hangs on the walls of the library of the Denver County Medical Society.
Born in Winchester, Va., May 25, 1855, Dr. Henry Sewall died from coronary thrombosis in Denver, July 8, 1936.
The desire of all physicians will be to join in the words of the greatest of poets:
Dr. Gerald Webb writing in Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 1936; 52: xlviii-1.

     Gen. Henry Sewall was born on 19 July 1793 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine.^3,4,5 He was the son of Rev. Jotham Sewall and Jenney Sewall.¹ Gen. Henry Sewall married Mary Witherell, daughter of Major Obadiah Witherell and Mary (Unknown), on 15 January 1816 in Norridgewock.⁶ Gen. Henry Sewall appears on the census of 1850 at Chesterville.⁴ Gen. Henry Sewall was living in Augusta.⁷ He died on 17 June 1864 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine, at the age of 70.⁸

     General Henry Sewall was born on 24 October 1752 in Newtown, York, Maine, (Titcomb p. 226 gives 1762).^1,2,3,4 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Abigail Titcomb. General Henry Sewall was baptised on 29 October 1752 at York, Maine.⁵ He married firstly Tabitha Sewall, daughter of John Sewall and Mary Sayward, on 9 February 1786 at Georgetown.⁶ General Henry Sewall married secondly Rachel Crosby, daughter of Simon Crosby and Sarah Sewall, on 30 June 1811 at Salem, Massachusetts, first cousins. There is a record of their marriage intentions dated 18 May 1811 in the Augusta Vital Records.^7,8,4 General Henry Sewall married thridly Elizabeth Lowell, daughter of John Lowell and Elizabeth Scollay, on 9 September 1833 at Augusta, Maine.^6,4 General Henry Sewall died on 4 September 1845 in Augusta, Maine, at the age of 92 also recorded on 11th.^9,6,4

Before the Revolution he was a mason by trade; corporal in Prescott’s Massachusetts regiment, May 1775. The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (13:1018).

Henry Sewall, Falmouth (also given York). Capt. David Bradish’s co; billeting allowed from date of enlistment, May 12, 1775, to July 8, 1775; credited with 57 days allowance; also, 4th Sergeant, Capt. David Bradish’s co., Col. Edmund Phinney’s (31st) Regt; company return endorsed “Octr 6th 1775;” also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge Camp, Dec. 15, 1775; also, Ensign, Capt. Tobias Fernald’s (2d) co., Col. Edmund Phinney’s Regt; muster roll of field, staff, and commissioned officers, dated Garrison at Fort George, Dec. 8, 1776; appointed Jan. 1, 1776; reported re-engaged Nov. 13, 1776, as 1st Lieutenant in Col. Brewer’s Regt; also, Captain, Col. Sprout’s Regt; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; reported as serving 29 mos. 25 days as Lieutenant, 6 mos. 5 days as Captain; also, 1st Lieutenant, Col. Samuel Brewer’s Regt; pay abstract of officers for rations from Jan. 1, 1777, to March 31, 1777, dated Boston; said Sewall credited with 180 rations; also, Lieutenant, 12th Mass. Regt. commanded by Maj. Tobias Fernald; return dated Boston, of officers who were in actual service and who had not been absent subsequent to May -, 1777, except by leave of proper authority; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Donnell’s co., Col. Brewer’s Regt; return dated Camp at Valley Forge, Jan. 22, 1778; residence, York; also, letter from Lieut. Col. Samuel Carlton to the Board of War, at Boston, dated West Point, Dec. 27, 1778, asking that clothing be delivered said Sewall, Lieutenant, and others, officers of (late) Col. Brewer’s Regt; also, Col. Carlton’s (late Brewer’s) Regt; return of officers for clothing, dated Boston, Feb. 2, 1770; also, Captain, 12th Mass. Regt; list of officers; commissioned June 25, 1779; also, Lieutenant, (late) Col. Brewer’s (12th) Regt; return of officers for the moiety of money due July 15, 1779; reported Commissary of Musters; also, Captain, 12th Mass. Regt; list of settlements of rank of Continental officers, dated West Point, made by a Board held for the purpose and confirmed by Congress Sept. 6, 1779; commissioned June 25, 1779; also, pay roll of Capt. Sylvanus Smith’s co., Col. Timothy Bigelow’s (15th) Regt., for Oct., 1779, signed by said Sewall, Commissary of Musters, sworn to at Peekskill; also, Captain; return of officers belonging to (late) 12th Mass. Regt. commanded by Lieut. Col. Ebenezer Sprout, “now in actual service,” dated Boston, Jan. 17, 1781; also, list of men belonging to said Sewall’s co., 2d Mass. Regt., who had enlisted for the war, as returned by said Sewall, Captain, dated West Point, Jan. 28, 1781.

Henry transferred to 2nd Massachusetts, 3 May 1782. He was the Major and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Heath from 19 May 1779 to June 1783.

In 1783 he settled at Fort Western, Hallowell, Maine; was Town Clerk of Hallowell, then of Augusta for thirty-five years. He served as Clerk of the District Court of Maine, 1789 until 1818. He was the Register of Deeds of Kennebec County from 1799 to 1816. And was a Major-General, 8th Division, Massachusetts (Maine) State Militia. The diary he kept while in the Army has been printed in the Maine Farmer (August - November, 1872).

Henry was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until 1845. He later served as the Vice President of the Society in 1845. Henry was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 26 June 1789, and applied for a soldier’s pension 30 March 1819. His widow Elizabeth applied for a widow’s pension 1 March 1835, age 75 yrs.^1,2

     Rev. Henry Sewall was born in 1614 in Manchester ? He was the son of Henry Sewall and Anne Hunt. Rev. Henry Sewall was christened on 25 June 1615 at Manchester Cathedral.³ He emigrated in 1634 "Sent by his father to New England 1634, with Net Cattel and Provisions sutable for a new Plantation, sailing on the Elizabeth and Dorcas. Mr Cotton would have had him settle in Boston; but in regard of his Cattel he chose to goe to Newbury, where his father soon followed him."^4,5 He married Jane Dummer, daughter of Stephen Dummer and Alice Archer, on 25 March 1646 at Newbury, Essex County; the service being conducted by Richard Saltonstall.^4,6 In 1647 he returned with his family, to England and three years later in 1650, he was presented to the living of North Baddesley in Hampshire.⁷ In 1658 or early 1659, and leaving his wife and children at Baddesley, Henry again sailed for Massachusetts carrying a letter from Richard Cromwell concerning the inheritance of his father's estate. Soon after his arrival he learned of Richard Cromwell's abdication, the restoration of the monarchy and the inevitable collapse of Puritan predominance. He summoned his family to New England.⁸ Rev. Henry Sewall died on 16 May 1700 in Newbury (Titcomb gives 16 March 1700).^9,10 He was buried in the burying ground of the First Parish Church, Newbury, Massachusetts.¹¹

     Rev. Henry Sewall was born in 1772.² He was the son of Henry Sewall and Mary Stinson.¹ Rev. Henry Sewall married Esther Minot Moody on 5 October 1794 in Bath, Kennebec, Maine. Rev. Henry Sewall was ordained on 7 October 1812 at Hebron "he enjoyed the satisfaction of seeing his brother in law, Henry Sewell ordained."³ He died on 9 June 1850 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine.^4,5 He was buried in Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine.⁵

     Henry Augustus Sewall was born on 25 February 1871 in Wilton, Maine.¹ He was the son of Otis Henry Sewall and Mary S. Keep.² Henry Augustus Sewall married Ella (Unknown) circa 1900.² Henry Augustus Sewall and Ella (Unknown) both appear on the census of 1900 at Frankin, Maine, where their occupations are given as woolen weavers. They are living with his parents.² Henry Augustus Sewall married thirdly Alice B. (Unknown) circa 1907.³ Henry Augustus Sewall and Alice B. (Unknown) appear on the census of 1910 at Wilton, Maine.³ Henry Augustus Sewall and Alice B. (Unknown) appear on the census of 1930 at Wilton, Maine, they were both working asweavers in a wollen mill.⁴

     Henry Clay Sewall was born in July 1830.¹ He was the son of Dummer Sewall and Sarah (or Sallie) Wilson.¹

     Henry D. Sewall was born circa 1805.² He was the son of Dr. Robert Sewall and Mary (Polly) Brent.¹ Henry D. Sewall died on 19 September 1821 in Poplar Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland, in the notice of his death he is described as third son of the late Robert Sewall.¹ He was buried in Poplar Hill Cemetery, Clinton, Prince George's County, Maryland.²

     Henry Devereaux Sewall was born on 21 August 1786 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was the son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux. Henry Devereaux Sewall married Mary Catherine Norton, daughter of Birdsey Norton, on 22 January 1816 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, In the wedding announcement the groom is described as being of the house of Hurd & Sewall, New York.^2,3 Henry Devereaux Sewall died on 8 June 1846 in Watertown, New York, at the age of 59.^4,5
At the age of 18 he started as a clerk in the counting house, in Boston, of his uncle, Joseph Sewall, the head of the house of Sewall, Salisbury & Co., then the principal dry goods importing and jobbing firm in New England. In 1807 the firm detailed their clerks, Henry Devereux Sewall and Arthur Tappan, the latter a brother of the junior partner in the firm, to go to Portland, in the district of Maine, and open a branch store under the firm name of Tappan & Sewall; but after doing business in Portland for two years they became discouraged by the ill effects produced by Jefferson's embargo, and in 1809 transferred the mercantile establishment to Montreal. There they were quite successful. Merchants and traders in Central and Northern New York were at that time among the principal customers of the Canadian capital city. It was there that Mr. Sewall formed acquaintanceships with Watertown merchants that shaped his course later in his career. The War of 1812 coming on, all Americans residing in Canada were required either to swear allegiance to the British Crown or to quit the country. Being patriots, and the descendants of patriots, the young traders chose the latter alternative, although to the ruin of their business, and in 1813 broke up their establishment. Mr. Tappan went directly to New York, becoming afterwards the leading dry goods merchant in that city, and a distinguished philanthropist. Mr. Sewall devoted his attention to the settling of matters of the late firm, and the collection of their outstanding debts.

Mr. Sewall's father dying in 1814 he spent a considerable part of that year in settling the estate, and early in 1815 established himself in New York in the foreign shipping and commission business, in partnership with John R. Hurd. This business proving but moderately remunerative, Mr. Hurd accepted an offer in 1823 to take the presidency of a marine insurance company in New York, and Mr. Sewall, under the advice of his uncle Joseph, the merchant in Boston, undertook a commission agency in New York in partnership with Edmund Q. Sewall, a son of Joseph, for the sale of domestic goods in connection with the foreign commission business. Joseph Sewall at that time had the agency in Boston of most of the few manufactories of cotton and woolen goods in New England, and through his intervention the firm of H. D. & E. Q. Sewall became the first in New York to undertake a similar agency in the latter market. It was thus that Mr. Sewall established an intercourse with Gilbert & Sigourney, the managers of the cotton factory at Watertown, and the latter concern becoming largely indebted to the New York house, the larger part of this indebtedness was finally transferred to property in and about Watertown.

In the financial crash of 1827 Mr. Sewall's firm in Boston, being compelled to succumb, carried down with them the house in New York of H. D. & E. Q. Sewall; and the junior partner, in the latter, dying, and the outlook for future business in New York seeming discouraging, Mr. Sewall concluded to remove with his family to Watertown, and managed the property there acquired through the intercourse with Gilbert & Sigourney, which firm also had been compelled by the extreme financial pressure of the time to withdraw from active business. He had likewise a view to the further extension of manufacturing at Watertown, and had always nourished a preference for a country life. Mr. Sewall, with the valuable assistance of those excellent men, well known to old citizens of Watertown, John Sigourney and Josiah W. Baker, carried on the old cotton factory and store from 1829 to 1834, when, the charter expiring, the factory and appurtenances were sold. In 1828-29 he constructed the dam on the Black River at the upper end of his island, built his residence on the island, then a beautiful spot, constructed or bought and afterwards sold a saw-mill and a tannery on the north side of the north branch, opposite the island, a paper mill and a machine shop on the lower point of the island on the north branch, a flouring-mill on the main branch, south side, just below the island, an extensive saw-mill at Dexter all between 1829 and I833; and in I834, with the assistance of New York and Boston capital, he erected an extensive woolen factory on the south side of the river opposite the island, and in 1834 to '35 and '36 built several brick stores on the east side of Factory Square, as well as a number of dwelling houses on Factory street, and in the neighborhood of the woolen-mills; and during the same period contributed largely to the erection of the first academy in the village (of which the late Judge Mullin was the first principal), and in 1832-33 furnished the greater part of the means for and himself attended to the construction and fitting up of the first Episcopal Church in the village, the predecessor of the present church on Court street. Later he built another flouring mill, below the woolen factory. Mr. Sewall, in connection with Merrill Coburn held, in 1833 the contract for furnishing the ties and sleepers for the Utica & Schenectady Railroad, the first railroad in the state of any length (the only previous ones being the short Mohawk & Hudson, and the Harlem, not going north of Harlem at that time) and, to carry out the contract, put up the extensive saw-mills at Dexter, and, as the sleepers were required to be of yellow pine, the contractors secured all there was of that timber along the Black River. The flood of 1833 swept all the logs into the lake at heavy loss to the contractors. From 1835 to 1843 Mr. Sewall was chiefly occupied with the business of the woolen factory, which, partly from want of sufficient skill in the manufacture of the fine goods for which the works were designed, partly from insufficiency of funds, and partly from the reduction of the tariff, did not prove ultimately profitable.

In the early spring of 1843 Mr. Sewall was badly injured by the upsetting of the Utica stage coach while on a journey to the eastward, from which time his health failed, and his business career practically closed, his death in June, 1846, being caused by the paralysis resulting from the injury. Child's Gazetteer of Jefferson County, City of Watertown.

     Henry Devereaux Sewall was born in July 1844 in New York.³ He was the son of Henry Foster Sewall and Sarah Allyne Rich.² Henry Devereaux Sewall was baptised on 22 August 1847 at Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.¹ He married Maria C. (Unknown) circa 1865.³ Henry Devereaux Sewall and Maria C. (Unknown) appear on the census of 1880 at Flushing, Queens, New York, where he is listed as a clerk in the Customs House.⁴

     Henry Devereux Sewall was born on 3 July 1849 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.³ He was the son of Rev. Charles Chauncy Sewall and Amy Peters.¹ Henry Devereux Sewall appears on the census of 1850 where he is listed as Henry Langley Sewell, the name was subsequently changed to Henry Devereux though the 1860 census calls him Emery D. He married Ella Maria Clark, daughter of Charles C. Clark and Amy P. (Unknown), on 4 February 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, they had seven children, four of whom were still living at the time of the 1900 Census.^4,5 Henry Devereux Sewall and Ella Maria Clark appear on the census of 22 June 1900 at Westboroough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, his occupation is recorded as hat blocker.⁶ Henry Devereux Sewall died after 1910.

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Author: B. F. Johnson (1909)

Henry Edwin Sewall

Henry Edwin Sewall of Sewall's Point, Fla., though reared in another State, is a
native of Florida, having been born at St. Augustine, on August 22, 1848. His
father, Rufus King Sewall, was a lawyer of note and the author of many popular
historical works bearing upon the State of Maine. His mother's maiden name was
Anna E. Whitehurst, who first married a Hanson, and in 1843, being a widow, was
married to Rufus King Sewall, of which marriage there were five children. The
Sewall family in this country traces its ancestry to Henry Sewall, who came from
England to Ipswich, Mass., in 1634, and he in turn was descended from Henry
Sewall, who was Mayor of Coventry, England, in 1589 and 1606. It is said that
the family ancestry can be traced back to the days of the Norman Conquest in
England. Samuel Sewall, the first of the family in Maine, lived at York. One of
his sons, Henry, was the father of another Samuel, who was pastor of the
Congregational Church in Edgecomb in 1807. This Samuel was the father of Rufus,
who in turn was the father of Rufus King Sewall, who was the father of Henry E.
In 1846 Rufus King Sewall and his wife removed to Florida, but only remained
until 1849 when they returned to Maine where Henry E. grew up and obtained his
education in the public schools of that State. In 1865 the lad entered the
Merchant Marine Service, which he followed until 1876. His last voyage was
around the world in the ship Benjamin Sewall of Boston. His uncle, Capt. Egbert
T. Sewall, in command of the barque, Istria, was lost at sea off Cape Hatteras,
on June 11, 1868. In 1876 Mr. Sewall left the sea and engaged in the wholesale
retail coal business in New York, under the firm name of H. E. Sewall and
Company. The business was successful and in 1889 he sold out and came to
Sewall's Point, Fla., to perfect the titles of the Hanson grant, which was
finally accomplished by decree of the United States Court, after fourteen years
of litigation. In 1890 he took an active part in county affairs and in 1894
represented Dade county in the Legislature for two years. Since that time he has
devoted his attention to the development of the section where he lives. He has
held the place of Postmaster at Sewall's Point since May 12, 1891, and also
served as County Commissioner in 1893.

On December 23, 1873, he married Miss Abbie E. Thomas, a daughter of Seymour
and Mary (Evans) Thomas, of Nicholas, N. Y.

Captain Sewall is a Congregationalist and a Democrat. He is commodore of the
Gilbert Bar Yacht Club, a life member of the Kane Lodge, No. 454, F. & A. M., of
New York City, and a charter member of the Mid Rivers Country Club. He is an
active member of the Pineapple Growers' Association and the Pineapple League.
For Florida Captain Sewall thinks that the most important question is good
roads, with cheaper and better transportation, which will encourage the
immigration needed and build up the State. In his reading he is very partial to
historical works and rates very highly such current periodicals as The
Independent and other magazines of that class. As a matter of interest in his
career, it may be mentioned that at the time the barque Istria was lost, as
above stated, he was the second mate and was one of the four saved, washed
ashore on wreckage after being in the water 9 hours.

Captain Sewall comes of that New England stock which has written such
marvelous pages upon the history of our land. Their sturdiness of character is
illustrated by the strength of their convictions. A man reared in Maine who is a
lifetime Democrat does not need any other testimonial as to the rigidity of his
principles, and the Sewall family of that State are prominent in that respect.
One-third of the Hanson tract of land to which he perfected titles after such a
hard struggle has been in his family since the year 1823, or just four years
after Florida was acquired from Spain. During his life as a sailor he voyaged
around the world several times on sailing ships, making very long trips, and
acquired a world experience, which has been valuable to him in later life. Since
settling at Sewall's Point and perfecting the titles to the lands he has been
engaged in building up a select colony at that place, and the government
engineers have but recently recommended a very large appropriation for
improvements to be made in that vicinity. It is but just to state that to his
efforts mainly are due the splendid improvements already made at Santa Lucia
inlet, and Captain Sewall believes that if the present contemplated improvements
are carried out that the Santa Lucia inlet will be the gateway for freight to
the west coast of Florida. A man of affairs and capable in business he occupies
in the community in which he lives that commanding position to which his merits
and his labors entitle him.


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FLORIDA EDITION
MAKERS OF AMERICA
AN HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORK BY AN ABLE CORPS OF WRITERS
VOL. III.
Published under the patronage of
The Florida Historical Society, Jacksonville, Florida

ADVISORY BOARD:
HON. W. D. BLOXHAM
COL. FRANK HARRIS
HON. R. W. DAVIS
SEN. H. H. McCREARY
HON. F. P. FLEMING
W. F. STOVALL
C. A. CHOATE, SECRETARY

1909
A. B. CALDWELL
ATLANTA, GA.

COPYRIGHT 1909
B. F. JOHNSON

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File size: 5.9 Kb. Henry Edwin Sewall was born on 22 August 1848 in St. Augustine, Florida.^3,4 He was the son of Rev. Rufus King Sewall and Anne Elizabeth Whitehurst.^2,1 Henry Edwin Sewall married Abbie Evans Thomas, daughter of Seymour Thomas and Mary Evans, on 23 December 1873.³ Henry Edwin Sewall appear on the census of 1880 at New York (Manhattan), New York, where he is listed as a coal dealer.⁵ He died on 1 August 1925 in Florida at the age of 76.⁴ He was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Jensen Beach, Martin County, Florida.⁴ "In 1889, Henry Edwin Sewall and his wife arrived and gave the Sewall's Point peninsula [Florida] its name. They built their home on the riverbank and in 1891 established a post office with a loading dock at the southern tip of Sewall's Point. The dock became a regular stopping place for Indian River travelers."⁶

      Shipping merchant of New York City.² Henry Foster Sewall was born on 31 October 1816 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York.^3,4 He was the son of Henry Devereaux Sewall and Mary Catherine Norton.¹ Henry Foster Sewall married Sarah Allyne Rich on 20 September 1843 in Watertown, New York.^3,5 Henry Foster Sewall died on 30 April 1896 in New York, New York, at the age of 79.^6,7 The funeral of Henry Foster Sewall took place on 2 May 1896 from his late residence at 955 Madison Avenue, New York.⁸ Sewall discovered the art of engraving at the age of 40. In 1856 he bought his first prints by Durer, Rembrandt and others. When the collector died, the first curator of the print department in the Boston Museum of Fine Art made frantic efforts to get his institution to buy the collection. He succeeded and today, the 23,000 prints from Sewall's collection form the core of the museum's holdings in the field.⁹

     Henry Foster Sewall. Financier.² He was born on 16 December 1876 in New York, New York.^3,4 He was the son of Charles Joseph Sewall and Anna Brooks Wellman.¹ Henry Foster Sewall graduated in 1897 from Cornell.² He married Ethel Redford Mount, daughter of Redford J. Mount and E. Cornelia (Unknown), circa 1906.^5,6 Henry Foster Sewall and Ethel Redford Mount appear on the census of 1910 at Manhattan, New York, they were living with her parents. He is an insurance agent.⁶ Henry Foster Sewall lived at 201 West Eighty-fifth Street, New York.² He died on 17 June 1920 in Todds Lane, Briarcliff, at his summer home at the age of 43.² He was President of Sewall & Alden of 80 Maiden Lane. Vice President of A.B. & S. Realty Co; of the Motion Picture News and of the Surbrug Chocolate Corporation.²

     Henry J. Sewall was born in April 1888 in New York.² He was the son of Henry Devereux Sewall and Ella Maria Clark.² Henry J. Sewall is also recorded as Henry D. Sewall.³

     Henry Sewall Jr.. A book-keeper.² He was born on 4 July 1848 in Maine.^1,2 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Harriet Virginia Smith.¹ Henry Sewall Jr. married Eunice Pishon on 18 August 1880.¹ On 9 March 1896 it was announced that Harry Sewall had moved to Pittsfield having a position in the office of the Waverly Woolen Company, as cashier and clerk to the treasurer. Mrs Sewall and Master Roy were to remain in Augusta for the time being.³

     Henry L. Sewall was the son of Nicholas Sewall and Mary Fenwick.¹ Henry L. Sewall died unmarried.²

     Henry Martyn Sewall was born on 11 October 1828 in Edgecomb, Maine.² He was the son of Rufus K. Sewall and Phoebe Merrill.¹ Henry Martyn Sewall died on 7 October 1833 at the age of 4.³

     Henry Middleton Sewall was born on 6 March 1823 in near Granville, Fauquier County, Virginia.¹ He was the son of William Sewall and Elizabeth Ward Middleton.¹ Henry Middleton Sewall married Anne Elizabeth Higgins on 22 November 1849 in Illinois.^1,2 Henry Middleton Sewall died on 3 May 1850 at the age of 27.¹

     Henry Middleton Sewall was born on 28 November 1850 in Cass County, Illinois.^1,2 He was the son of Henry Middleton Sewall and Anne Elizabeth Higgins.¹ Henry Middleton Sewall married Clara J. Baird on 24 August 1882 and settled on a farm near Urbana, Illinois.^1,3 Henry Middleton Sewall married secondly Avilla J. McKinley, daughter of Dr. Charles McKinley, on 22 March 1899 at Champaign County, Illinois.³ Henry Middleton Sewall died on 16 November 1907 at the age of 56.¹