The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

But at the same time that he was thus scholarly and refined, with this beautiful aptitude for
whatever is noble in literary attainment and investigation, he was a man of the most steadfast
attachment to principle; of great practical skill and energy, when in health, in accomplishing the
plans which were necessary to carry his convictions into practice; a constant worker for that which
he believed in; an earnest believer in principles that commended themselves to his judgment and
conscience as reasonable and right. All the delicacy of his nature, all the fineness of his sensibility
to literature and cultivation, never interfered for an instant with the steadfastness of conviction
which he inherited from his ancestors, and which had been cultivated and unfolded in him by
the religious influences that were thrown around him m his childhood and youth, and which he
had cultivated in himself as a necessary element of excellence and power. Everyone must have
been struck with the kindness of disposition which was native in him, and was the source of that
beautiful courtesy of manner which is so rare in our society—so rare in any society —and which,
to him, was native as the song is to the bird, as brilliancy of color is to the wing of the butterfly.
He could not be otherwise than courteous, one might almost say, if he tried. * * It enabled
him to overcome, to a degree, the reserve that was natural to him, and to mingle with men with
far more of heartiness and cheerful response to their greetings than, except for such natural kind-
ness, he would have been likely to have shown." For, despite his public life, he was modest,
yet modesty was allied to a sincerity and frankness of thought, speech and action that, in some
circumstances, was absolute fearlessness.
The portrait of Chief Justice Marshall, by Rembrandt Peale, painted in Washington in 1834,
and purchased by Hon. James Humphrey from the artist in 1847, was presented to the Long
Island Historical Society in 1866, by Mrs. Urani-a B. Humphrey, in accordance with the expressed
desire of her husband, who was a member of that society. [P. 383 Dawson's Hist. Magazine for
1866; December; Vol. X.]
Children:
4202. I. J.\5jES,^ b. 3 Dec, 1837, at Norfolk, Ct. ; d. 9 Nov., 1868, a?. 31; married 17 June,
1863, Charlotte C. (dau. of William and Charlotte Bull) Deming, of Litchfield,
Ct., b. 20 Sept., 1840. His wid. married (2) E. Le Roy Ferry. Res. (1885) 65
W. 50th St., New York City. [See Additions, for biographical notice. J
Child:
4203. i. James,' b. 11 Aug., 1864; married Augusta V. (dau. of Samuel B. and Martha V.)
Newton. Res. (1885) 131 E. 86th Street, New York City.
4204. II. Henry Martyn,^ b. 22 Jan., 1841, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; died there 15 Feb., 1842,
te. I year.
4205. III. Ellen,^ b. 17 Apr., 1844, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; died there 25 Feb., 1S74, ne. 29
years. She married in Brooklyn, N. Y. , 17 Jan., 1872, Prof. Charles Upham
(son of Prof Charles Upham and Harriet Taylor) Shepard, M. D., Ph. D. His
parents reside at New Haven, Ct. He graduated at Yale College, class of 1S63;
in medicine at Gottingen University, in 1867. He was afterward Professor of
Chemistry in the Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston. Chemist.
P. O. address (1S84) Laboratory for Anal\-tical Chemistry, 46 Meeting Street,
Charleston, S. C. (P. O. box 362.) No children.
4206. IV. Anna Battell,'' b. 15 Mch., 1846, at Brooklyn, N. Y.; died there 3 Dec, 18S0,
a;. 34 years. She married in Brooklyn, N. Y., 20 Nov., 1879, Clarence (son of
William and Charlotte Bull*) Deming, of New York City, born i Oct., 1S48,
at Litchfield, Ct. Journalist. Editor of the New Haven (Conn.) Morning News.
P. O. address (1884) New Haven House, New Haven, Ct. No children.
» William Deming was ol Litclificld. Ct , and CharlottL- Bull ol Hartford, Conn.
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