HENRY S. BARBOUR
HARTFORD: Attorney-at-Law
Henry S. Barbour was born at Canton, Conn., August 2, 1822. After the usual preparatory course, he was admitted to the bar at Litchfield in 1849, and began the practice of his profession in Torrington, where he resided and practiced law for twenty-one years. There he held the offices of judge of probate, town clerk, and town treasurer over fifteen years, and represented that town in the house of representatives in the years 1850 and 1865; and was senator from the then Fifteenth district in 1870, acting as chairman of the judiciary committee. He removed to Hartford in 1870 to enter into a law partnership with his brother, Heman H. Barbour, who died in 1875; since which date he has continued to practice law in Hartford. He married Miss Bartholomew of Sheffield, Mass., in 1851. They have two children, a son and a daughter; his son is the Rev. John Humphrey Barbour, a professor in the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown. Judge Barbour is of Revolutionary stock; his father was a son of a soldier of the Revolution. His grandfather, Solomon Humphrey, was a Revolutionary soldier; his great-grandfather, John Brown of Simsbury, was also a Revolutionary soldier, and was a grandson of Peter Brown, who came over in the Mayflower. John Brown, the martyr, was a grandson of the above-mentioned John Brown of Simsbury, making him the second cousin of Mr. Barbour. Sylvester Barbour of Hartford and Edward P. Barbour of Ansonia are brothers of the subject of this biography.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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