Henry Flagg French: Owings Stone Family Genealogy — 20,000+ ancestors and their relatives

Gender Male

Person ID I15790 Owings Stone Genealogy, Ancestry & Heritage

Last Modified 25 Feb 2002 00:00:00

Father Daniel French

Mother Sarah Wingate Flagg

Family ID F10573 Group Sheet

Family Anne Richardson

Children

Family ID F10574 Group Sheet

Notes	FRENCH, Henry Flagg, jurist, was born at Chester, N.H., Aug. 14, 1813; son of the Hon. Daniel and Sarah W. (Flagg) Bell French. He was educated at academies in his native state and at Hingham, Mass., and studied law in the office of his father and at Harvard law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and practised in Chester until 1840 when he removed to Portsmouth and thence in 1842 to Exeter, N.H. He was county solicitor, 1838-48, and bank commissioner, 1848-52. He was a justice of the court of common pleas, 1855-59, removing to Concord, Mass., in the latter year. He was district attorney for Suffolk county, 1862-65, and was president of the Massachusetts agricultural college in 1865-66. In 1876 he was appointed by General Grant second assistant secretary of the U.S. treasury and held the office until 1885, when he returned to Concord, Mass. He was married to Anne, daughter of Chief-Justice Richardson. He died in Concord, Mass., Nov. 29, 1885. [2]

Sources
[S150] Roberts, Gary Boyd, (NEHGS)

[S301] Johnson, Rossiter, ed., (The Biographical Society (Boston, MA))

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