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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsDEARBORN, Henry Alexander Scammell
(1783—1851)
DEARBORN, Henry Alexander Scammell, (son of Henry Dearborn), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Exeter, N.H., March 3, 1783; attended the common schools and Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., for two years; was graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Salem, Mass., and Portland, Mass. (now Maine); collector of customs in Boston 1812-1829; served as brigadier general commanding the Volunteers in the defenses of Boston Harbor in the War of 1812; member of the State constitutional convention in 1820; member of the State house of representatives in 1829; served in the State senate in 1830; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress; served as adjutant general of Massachusetts 1834-1843; mayor of Roxbury 1847-1851; president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; author of many books; died in Portland, Maine, on July 29, 1851; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury, Mass.
Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell. An address, delivered before the Berkshire Agricultural Society
. Pittsfield, [Mass.]: Printed by P. Allen and Son, 1840.
—-. An address delivered before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, on the celebration of their first anniversary
. Boston: From the Press of I. R. Butts, 1829.
—-. An address delivered before the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture
. Boston: N.E. Farmer Office, 1835.
—-. A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, and the Trade and Maritime Geography of Turkey and Egypt.
2 vols. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1819.
—-. Journals of Henry A.S. Dearborn
. Edited by Frank H. Severance. In Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society,
Vol. 7. Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1904.
—-. Letters on the Internal Improvements and Commerce of the West.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1839.
—-. The Life of William Bainbridge, Esq., of the United States Navy.
Edited by James Barnes. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1931.
—-. An oration, delivered at Salem, on the Fourth of July, 1806
. Salem: Printed at the Register Office, 1806.
—-. An oration, pronounced at Boston, on the fourth day of July, 1811, before the Supreme Executive and in presence of the Bunker-Hill Association
. Boston: Printed by Munroe & French, printers to the state, 1811.
—-. A sketch of the life of apostle Eliot, prefatory to a subscription for erecting a monument to his memory
. Roxbury: Norfolk County Journal Press
, 1850.
—-, comp. Militia Laws of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, together with extracts from the United States and State Constitutions, in relation thereto.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1840.
—-, trans. A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, History, and Analysis of Pastel, or Woad,
by Charles Philibert, comte de Lasteyrie du Saillant. 1811. Reprint, Boston: Printed by Rowe and Hooper, 1816.
Homes, Henry Augustus. An account of the manuscripts of Gen. Dearborn
. Dearborn: H.A.S. Albany,Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, 1881.
Putnam, George. An address, delivered before the city government and citizens of Roxbury, on the life and character of the late Henry A.S. Dearborn, Mayor of the city. September 3d, 1851
. Roxbury: Norfolk County Journal Press
, 1851.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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