The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-03
IN EMINENT LAWYER.
sketch of Henry q. Townsend, Yale
Man and Well Known Here.

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The Philadelphia Call, in its Bench
and Bar" series of sketches of men to
whose achievements Philadelphia owes
her legal eminence," has the following
concerning gentleman of renown, who
is a Yale man and is related to one of
New Haven's leading families:
| Upon the 22d of February, 1922, there
was born at West Chester, In Chester
county, this state, Henry c. Townsend.
| the son of John w. Townsend and
Sibylla Kirk Price, daughter Of Philip
and Rachel Price. The family name APP
pears on the earliest records Of Pennsyl-
vania colonial days. Richard Town
send. who was born in Cirencester,
1916, and died in East Bradford town
ship near West Chester. Pa, January
2S, 1882, accompanied william Penn in
the ship Welcome on his first visit to his
colony in 1852, settling first at Chester.
and subsequently at Germantown, near
Philadelphia He was an eminent min
lister in the Society Of Friends, and
erected the first Touring mills in the
colony drought ready framed from
London), near Chester. Joseph Town
send, nephew of this Richard (son Of
William, Of County Of Berks, England),
who arrived in the colony Of Pennsylva-
mia in 1912, was the direct ancestor of
the Pennsylvania Townsends. He pur-
chased tract of about eight hundred
and eighty acres on the east bank of the
BTandywine Creek, including part Of the
site of the borough of West Chester.
William Townsend, third in descent
from this ancestor, and grandfather Of
Henry c. Townsend, married Grace
Loller, sister of Colonel Robert Loller,
founder of the Loller Academy, at Hat
boro, Montgomery county He was
delegate from Philadelphia county to
the convention which framed the first
constitution of Pennsylvania, September
2S, 1915. He Joined the Continental
army under washington, and served in
the battles of Trenton, Princeton and
Germantown; was paymaster of the mi
litia in Philadelphia county, and men,
Der of the assembly in 1779 and 17S4-S.
Henry c. Townsend was educated at
Friends Westtown Boarding school,
Crester county, and at Bomars Acade-
N.Y. West Chester, Pa. He entered Yale
college in 1889, remaining through the
second year of the class of 1912. He re-
ceived the honorary degree Of A. M.
from Yale college in 1873 In 1s41 he en-
tered the law office of his uncle, Eli X.
Price, and after a three years course of
study was admitted to the Philadelphia
bar in September, 1874 and has since
been continuously and successfully en-
gagged in the chosen branches of his pro-
fession-the management of estates, ex-
ecution of trusts and counsel for various
corporations, involving large RESPONSE
bilities, the fullest confidence of clients
and eminent equipment in legal knowl-
edge.
Among the prominent corporations of
which he is counsel is the Penn Mutual
Life Insurance company, whose charter
he prepared in 1S47, and for which he
has been the legal adviser for period
of fifty years He has served ASA mana
ger and director Of many charitable and
business corporations, including the
Grandom Institution, the Preston Re-
treat, the Philadelphia Home for Incur
ables, the Pennsylvania Working Home
for Incurables, the Pennsylvania Work.
ing Home for Blind Men, the Philadel-
phia Saving Fund society, and also as
trustee of the Williamson Free School of
Mechanical Trades.
Mr.. Townsend was married in July,
1S47, to Georglana Lawrence Talman
daughter of James Townsend Talman
and Mary Watson Lawrence, of Flush
ing, L. T., by whom he has six children,
all of whom are living-Fanny, II. Price,
Franklin Harrison, Lawrence and Ber-
tina. OF his four sons, e. Price Town
send is connected with the Fidelity In
surance, Trust and Safe Deposit compa-
ny; Franklin Is a well-known member
If the Philadelphia bar; Harrison is en-
gagged in the insurance business, and
Lawrence Is United States minister at
Portugal, to which position he was pro-
noted from the office of secretary of |
American legation at Vienna"