Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-14
DEATH OF DIR. HENRY.

{" 1t really seems that the cloud which now over
hangs the fortunes of the College must continue to
grow darker and more threatening-so true is it,
that misfortunes never come singy." Thus we
wrote last week, in view Of the temporary with
drawal of Professor BRUABY-lttle thinking that
so soon we would be called upon to verify the pro-
phecy. Again, again, and again, have the bright
lights that shone peerlessly in the crown of our
glories, one by one gone out-some to be relumed
and to diffuse the same glowing radiance else
where-another to the trials of aflcton-and yet
another to the grave and to his reward
1t would be grateful duty to dwell upon the
life of such man as DR.. HENRY, and especially to
record the many evidences Of the varied learning,
ripe scholarship and profound ability which won
for him the respect and admiration Of his peers
This to more able pens; but while others are pro-
nouncing the eulogy upon those splendid qualities
which marked him as the most thoroughly and
elegantly accomplished man of his day, those who
were permitted andlovsd to gather the rare treas-
ures of wisdom, as with lavish hand be gave them
away, will rather unite with us in heartfelt, tear
full tribute to the memory of the good old man,
and will recall and preserve freshly the recollec-
ton of the pleasant words and the mild, genial,
kindly tone with which he was wont to train the
mind and at once win, while he ennobled, oil the
affections Of the heart Green be his memory,
forever
The Columbia papers inform us that his death
occurred on Wednesday, the 9th instant, at 2
o'clock, p. m. On Monday che was seized with
congestive chill, the recurrence of which occa-
stoned the sad and unexpected event" We e1-
tract the following notice from the editorial col
umns of the Charleston Courier -
"Our telegraphic column announces the decease
of the Rev. Robert Henry, D. D., formerly Pro-
fessor of Logic and Metaphysics, afterwards Pre-
sdent, and for some years past Professor Of Greek
in the South Carolina College.
CDR. Henry was native of this city, and was
born on the 9Th Of December 1892. He was sent
at an early age to England for completion Of his
education and graduated in 1914, in the University
Of Edinburgh Returning home in 1915, DR..
Henry oficiated for some time in the FreLch HUI
guenot Church, and in 1918 was elected to the
Chair of Logic and Moral Philosophy in the South
Carolina College. Since that period, with two
brief intermissions, he has been connected with
the College in various posts, in all of which he
steadily maintained and improved the reputation
of profound scholar and thoroughly accomplish
cd instructor. The ripeness, thoroughness and
souudness of the scholarship, characteristic of
tho best results of the academic and collegiate
training he enjoyed under the older systems, con-
tinued to mark him to the last, and gave value and
authority to all his utterances from the pulpit the
chair, or through the press.
"Dr. Henry leaves in the College no survivor
linking the institution with its frststa and regime
of instruction under the beloved Ma1cy, and his
dccease, although from hi, prevailing state Of
health lattcrly, not altogether surprising will ex-
cite thrill Of regret throughout the wide spread
circle of the Alumni of that institution.
''one Of his last published duties and efforts,
apart from his professorship, was the delivery Of
an eulogy on Calhoun, for the municipal authori-
ties of Columbia, and the sad reflection now sug-
gests itself, where can the ripened intellect the
scholarly graces the manifold acquisitions thei in
tellcctual worth and moral excellencies Of Henry
find a narrator so happily qualified in intellect,
studies and morals, as lie was TO unfold the char
acter of the Carolina SENATOR"