Henry Hendricks^[1]

1804 - 1861  (56 years)

• Name	Henry Hendricks  [2]
  Born	27 Nov 1804	New York   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	1396
  Died	1 Sep 1861	New York   [2]
  Person ID	I1396	aojd
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2011

  
  

  Mother	Frances Isaacs,   b. 9 Jun 1783, Lancaster, Lancaster, PA ,   d. 1 May 1854, New York  (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):AJLLJ Portraits Database 5 Aug 2011 Henry Hendricks was born in New York to Harmon and Frances Isaacs Hendricks. He was to follow his brother Uriah and his father— who in turn had followed his father— into the copper business, creating a firm that would remain in family hands for another two generations.      In 1829 Hendricks married Harriet Tobias, whose sister Fanny had married his older brother, Uriah, three years prior. They had eight children and raised them in New York.      In addition to the inheritance in manufacturing, Henry would also take from his father a sense of charitable duty. Along with his father-in-law, Hendricks became an officer in the Society for the Education of Poor Children and Relief of Indigent Persons of the Jewish Persuasion, one of the country's first Jewish charities. He joined his sister Emily's husband, Benjamin Nathan, in founding the Hebrew Benevolent Society in New York in 1823, modeled after that created by Rebecca Gratz in Philadelphia. He was also cofounder in 1852 of the Jews' Hospital, later Mount Sinai, the oldest Jewish medical institution in the country. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S285] . [S4] PG. 110 HENDRICKS (1) (Reliability: 3). [S8] YEAR: 1900; CENSUS PLACE: MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, NEW YORK; ROLL: T623 1114; PAGE: 9B; . (Reliability: 3). [S294] HENDRICKS, HENRY (Reliability: 3).