Laura Leffingwell Henshaw

┌── David Henshaw │ 1744-1808 ┌── Joshua Henshaw ───────┤ │ 1779-1854 │ │ └── Mary Sargent │ 1755-1831 Laura Leffingwell Henshaw ───┤ B: 1820 │ D: 1886 │ └── Rebecca Leffingwell 1793-1826 M: Asa Hammond Whitney

Born Jun 23 1820^1,2,4,5 [about 1823⁶, about 1822⁷], Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio^1,2,4,5.

She married Asa Hammond Whitney^{1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12,13,14} [Hammond Whitney^6,8,10], Oct 3 1842^{1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}, Henshaw Place, Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts^{1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}. Asa, son of Asa Whitney & Mary Hammond, was born Jun 17 1819, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts .^{2,6,9,11,14,15}

Laura's marriage was announced in the "New York Daily Tribune" (New York, New York) on October 7, 1842:¹⁰

Asa had graduated from Harvard in 1838.^2,9,11 After leaving college he made a voyage to the Mediterranean for his health and subsequently went to Rio de Janerio. On his return he embarked in business as a junior partner in the house of Henshaw & Whitney, wholesale druggists, in Boston. He resided in Cambridge, but subsequently removed to Norfolk, Virginia, where he managed the financial affairs of the Seaboard & Roanoke R.R. He was a man of great energy and earnestness of character.^9,11

Laura and family were shown in the 1850 census (Aug 1850), Norfolk, Virginia:⁶

Asa died Oct 8 1858¹¹ [Oct 7 1858², Oct - 1859^1,15], Vicksburg, Mississippi¹¹; age 39¹¹.

Laura and family were shown in the 1880 census (Jun 14 1880), Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts:⁷

Laura Leffingwell Henshaw died Apr 21 1886⁵ [Apr 20 1886^1,2,9,16], Lancaster, Massachusetts⁵; age 65y 10m⁵.

A biographical sketch of Asa Hammond Whitney was published in "Necrology of the Alumni of Harvard College, 1851-52 to 1862-63":¹¹

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