Henry Floyd-Jones
Henry Onderdonk Floyd-Jones (January 3, 1792 — December 20, 1862) was an American politician from New York.
Life
[edit]He was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York (then Queens, now Nassau County) as the son of David Richard Floyd-Jones (1764–1826) and Sarah (Onderdonk) Floyd-Jones (1758–1844). He married Helen Watts (1792–1872), and they had several children, among them State Senator Edward Floyd-Jones (1823–1901) and Col. DeLancey Floyd-Jones (1826–1902).
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co.) in 1829 and 1830.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) from 1836 to 1839, sitting in the 59th, 60th, 61st and 62nd New York State Legislatures.
Lt. Gov. David R. Floyd-Jones (1813–1871) was his nephew; Bishop William H. DeLancey (1797–1865) and Susan DeLancey, the wife of James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), were his first cousins.
Sources
[edit]- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 130ff, 142, 208 and 284; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- [1] Floyd-Jones family
- Memorial of the Hon. David S. Jones (1849; pg. 97ff)
- Sarah Floyd-Jones obit of his daughter, in NYT on August 12, 1900