Henry
[uncertain]
Park
(Park)
Benjamin
Born in Demerara (Georgetown), British Guiana
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Parke Benjamin
and Mary Judith (Gall) Lanman
Brother of
George A Benjamin [half], Park Benjamin, Sarah Benjamin, Susan Margaret (Benjamin) Stackpole, William Christopher Benjamin, Mary Elizabeth (Benjamin) Motley and Benjamin Henry Benjamin
Husband of
Mary Brower Western
— married
May 1848 in St. Pauls' Church, Glen Cove, New York
Descendants 
Father of
Park Benjamin Jnr., Henry Western Benjamin, George Hilliard Benjamin, Walter Romeyn Benjamin, Charles Memberry Benjamin, Mary Western Benjamin, William Evarts Benjamin and Susan Edith Benjamin
Died
at age 55
in New York
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Nov 2013
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Biography
Parke was born in 1809. Parke Benjamin ... He passed away in 1864. [1]
Park [he may have been christened Henry Park] was born in 1809 in Demerara[2]. He was the son of Park Benjamin and Mary Gall.
Park contracted a tropical fever at the age of three. The effects were to leave him permanently lame, with one leg shorter than the other. He was sent to Norwich, Connecticut for his health which improved but he always walked with crutches.
When his father died in 1824 his education was turned over to James Savage. He attended Bacon Academy from 1816-1822 and Harvard from 1825 to 1826, Washington (Trinity) at Harvard, and graduated at the head of his class in 1829. He then attended Yale and Harvard and studied law.
Restless and temperamental, he abandoned law practice for journalism in 1834. He was a magazine editor, poet, literary editor and lecturer.
He died in 1864 in New York city and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Sources
- ↑ Entered by Gilly Wood, Monday, November 25, 2013.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSC-9KR1?cc=1473181&wc=7Q5G-15M%3A1589422212%2C1589422210%2C1589432436 : 24 March 2017), New York > New York > 2nd Division 18th Ward New York City > image 71 of 168; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- United States Census 1860. Census was carried out on 23 June 1860 and therefore did not include Susan Benjamin who was born three days later. "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSC-9KR1?cc=1473181&wc=7Q5G-15M%3A1589422212%2C1589422210%2C1589432436: 24 March 2017), New York > New York > 2nd Division 18th Ward New York City > image 71 of 168; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- The Benjamin Family in America. Compiled by Gloria Wall Bicha and Helen Benjamin Brown [pages 405-406]
- Genealogy of Park Benjamin by Merle M.Hoover 1948. Columbia University Press.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Gilly Wood for creating Benjamin-1083 on 25 Nov 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Gilly and others.
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