Morton J. Henry

Captain, United States Army; born in Montgomery County, Pa., Aug. 22, 1869; son of Morton P. and Annie McK. Henry, of Philadelphia. He resided in Philadelphia and attended school there, and entered Harvard University in the class of 1892. He married. April 2. 1902, Rebecca A. Morison, of Baltimore. He was appointed to the Volunteer Army during the war with Spain as captain and commissary, United States Volunteers, and served in the Santiago campaign on the staffs of General S.B.M. Young and General Leonard Wood. He was wounded July 1, at the capture of San Juan Hill; promoted Aug. 24, 1899, to major, Thirty-second Infantry, United States Volunteers, and served in a number of engagements in the Philippine Islands, and was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, May 8, 1901. He was appointed captain and commissary in the Regular Army, Feb. 2, 1901; and he is now serving in the Subsistence Department in the Philippines. Address: Manila, P.I.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 360-361.

Submitted by Nancy.