The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

in great demand as a referee and arbitrator, and few weeks passed without his decision of some
difficult and important case.
As a scholar he had few equals in the State. He acquired in college a love of classical
literature, which continued while he lived. His later years were mellowed and lightened by
pleasant and intimate converse with Demosthenes and Plato, with Horace and Virgil, and other
master-minds of Greece and Rome. Their works he studied critically in their own language.
They were his daily delight, recreation and solace, affording pleasant occupation to all his leisure
hours, even to the last day of his life. The poetic temperament was in him most decided. In
his earlier life, he was a most cherished and prominent contributor to the best literary publications
of the day; and this work had such fascination for him, as to necessitate his entire declination of
it, upon his entering upon the more arduous labors of his profession.*
In 1851, his son, Oeorge Harvey, was admitted to practice, and the firm from this time
continued to be H. & G. H. Humphrey until his death, which occurred in Rochester, N. Y.,
May 1st, 1877, at the age of 80 years. To the last he kept up his interest in current events and
in the duties of his profession. Although his physical force abated, his mind remained clear and
his memory perfect. His cheerfulness was never dimmed; every year he thought happier than the
preceding. The day of life, with advancing years, grew more and more serene and unclouded un-
til its growing light faded into the dawning of the other and sunnier shore, f
Children
2308. I. George H.^rvey,? b. 21 Mch., 1830; married Elizabeth Wells Swan. Family 342.
2309. II. John Perkins,'' b. 3 Aug., 1836; married Frances Churchill. Family 343.
2310. III. James Brown, 7 b. 28 Dec, 1S41; died 9 Aug., 1871, on a steamboat on the
Lachine Canal, on his way home from Quebec, where he had been in pursuit of
health. He married, 20 Oct., 1870, Frances E. Brown. They resided in
Rochester, N. Y. No children. She married (2) John H. Fonda, and res. (1882)
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
FAMILY 146.
2311- Augustine^ Humphrey, [963] (/ona/haji,= Isaac,* Ensign Samuel,^ Lieut. Samuel,'^
Michael,^) was born 15 Feb., 1799, in Goshen, Ct. He married, 9 Mch., 1831, Harriet Augusta
Woodbridge, b. 29 Mch., 1798, Norwich, Ct., dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rogers) Wood-
bridge. They settled in East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y. In 1840, they removed to Indiana,
where he was engaged in farming. Mrs. Humphrey died in Indiana, 22 Aug., 1S59, te. 6i years.
Mr. Humphrey afterward resided with his youngest son, Charles S. Humphrey, at Winfield, Ind.
Children:
2312. I. Henry Augustine,' b. 16 July, 1832; is deceased; married P^meline Field. Family 344.
2313. II. George Woodbridge, ' b. 10 Jan., 1835; d. 18 Jan., 1863, a\ 28; married Sabrina
L. Bathburn. Family 34.5.
2314. III. Theron Jonathan, 7 b. 20 Dec, 1837; d. 28 Oct., 1861, x'. 24 years.
2315. IV. Charles Samuel,? b. 18 Oct., 1840; m. (i) Phebe Ellen Lee; m. (2) Letiiia Smiley.
Family 346.
* In 1859, he published "A Tmnsl.ilion of the First Book of Lucretius' Dc Kerum A'alura." He w.is the author of m.iiiy sketches,
poems, addresses, &c.
t Memorial by his son George H. Humphrey, Esq.
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