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unusual facts about Henry R. Durand


Henry Durand

Henry R. Durand (1855–1932), restaurateur, president and general manager of the H. R. Durand Restaurant Company


David H. Adams

David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Edward S. Hamlin

Hamlin was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry R. Brinkerhoff and served from October 8, 1844, to March 3, 1845.

Fort Seldon

Fort Selden was a US Cavalry fort named in honor of Henry R. Selden, and located in Doña Ana County, 12 miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Henry Evans

Henry R. Evans (1861–1949), American writer and amateur magician

Henry R. Brinkerhoff

Brinkerhoff was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1843, until his death in Huron County, Ohio, April 30, 1844.

Henry R. Colman

The Rev. Henry Root Colman was born October 9, 1800, in Northampton, New York.

Henry R. Gibson

Gibson served in the commissary department of the Union Army from March 1863 to July 1865.

Henry R. Harris

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Henry R. Selden

On September 25, 1834, Selden married Laura Anne Baldwin at Clarkson, and they had three sons and two daughters, among them George Baldwin Selden, who became the first person to be granted a patent for the automobile.

Henry R. Towne

Noble, David F. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism.

During 1864-1866, Towne was placed in charge of erecting engines in monitors for the United States Navy.

When he returned, he found employment with the firm of William Sellers & Co., in Philadelphia.

Following his year of college, Towne found work as a draftsman at the Port Richmond Iron Works, which was owned by I. P. Morris, Towne & Co..

League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry

Ordered by the justices to remedy this situation, a federal panel on August 4 adjusted the lines of the 23rd and four other districts — the 28th (represented by Democrat Henry Cuellar), 25th (Democrat Lloyd Doggett), 15th (Democrat Ruben Hinojosa) and 21st (Republican Lamar S. Smith) — all of which held new primary elections on November 7.

Lockheed J37

A committee under the direction of William F. Durand was set up to put the British designs into production and build an aircraft to test them.

Lucius Seymour Storrs

Storrs is a relative of Henry Randolph Storrs, a U.S. Representative from New York; and William L. Storrs, a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Selden, New York

Upstate attorney (and later judge) Henry Selden promised to do "something handsome" if the community named itself after him.

Shelly Kagan

Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics.

William F. Durand

A native of Connecticut, he was a member of the first graduating class of Birmingham High School in Derby, Connecticut (now Derby High School) in 1877.


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