William Henry (May 19, 1729 – December 15, 1786) was an American gunsmith, engineer, politician, and merchant from Lancaster, Pennsylvania , and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1784, 1785, and 1786. Henry is also noted for his contributions in the development of the first steam engines.
15-971: (Redirected from Will Henry ) Willie , Billy , Bill , Will or William Henry may refer to: Politicians [ edit ] William Henry (gunsmith) (1729–1786), American gunsmith and Pennsylvania delegate to Continental Congress William Henry (brother of Patrick Henry) (1734–1785), American member of Colonial Virginia House of Burgesses William Henry (congressman) (1788–1861), American legislator from Vermont William Alexander Henry (1816–1888), Canadian Supreme Court justice William Wirt Henry (1831–1900), American lawyer, politician and historian in Virginia William H. Henry , Socialist Party of America Executive Secretary during late 1920s William Thomas Henry (1872–1952), Canadian politician; Legislative Assembly of Alberta member William Henry, Libertarian nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in
30-603: A "Description of a Self-Moving or Sentinel Register" to regulate the flue of a furnace. Henry invented a screw auger, manufactured and sold exclusively at his Lancaster store, and some credit him with inventing the steamboat: the twelve-year-old Robert Fulton , a Lancaster neighbor, visited Henry in 1777, who had been experimenting since 1763 on boats with steam engines on the Conestoga River (Fulton's own experiments began only in 1786 in England). Henry and his family were members of
45-730: A strip called Dormmates for the Connecticut Daily Campus , the daily student newspaper at the University of Connecticut . After graduation he created the comic strip Ordinary Bill , which depicted a beach bum cartoonist and ran in his hometown newspaper The Jamestown Press , but found the subject matter too limiting. Wallace the Brave is elaborated from sketches of a child Henry began to make after working on Ordinary Bill . He has claimed both Bill Watterson 's Calvin and Hobbes and Richard Thompson 's Cul de Sac as influences on
60-516: A successful ironmonger and merchant in Lancaster. Henry later served in many positions of public responsibility, including Assistant Commissary General to the Continental Army for the district of Lancaster and, in 1779, Commissary of Hides for Pennsylvania, Delaware , and Maryland . In these positions, Henry managed vast sums of money and acquired and transferred enormous amounts of material. (He
75-777: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Henry (gunsmith) William Henry was born near Downingtown, Pennsylvania to a family of Scots-Irish extraction. Prior to his service in the Continental Congress, Henry was a gunsmith and provided rifles to the British during the French and Indian War : Henry himself, serving as armorer , accompanied troops on John Forbes 's successful mission to retake Fort Duquesne in 1758. By 1760, according to Scott Paul Gordon, Henry had largely abandoned his occupation of gunsmith and had become
90-439: The 2020 Indiana gubernatorial election Royalty [ edit ] William Henry, Prince of Orange (1650–1702), future King William III of England William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1684–1718), member of German royalty William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1718–1768), member of German royalty Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743–1805), younger brother of King George III of
105-583: The Moravian Congregation at Lancaster. Henry was the earliest patron of painter Benjamin West , who lodged in Henry's home in Lancaster in 1756 and painted portraits of William and Ann Henry, probably shortly after their marriage. More significantly, Henry encouraged West to paint The Death of Socrates (1756), perhaps the first history painting produced in the colonies; West credited Henry with having initiated
120-1042: The Brave Others [ edit ] William Henry (missionary) (1770-1859), Irish missionary, active in Tahiti and New South Wales, Australia William Henry (chemist) (1774–1836), English chemist who formulated Henry's law William Henry (pastor) (1783-1839), Scottish Congregationalist pastor William "Jerry" Henry (1811–after 1851), American fugitive slave who was freed in New York event known as Jerry Rescue William W. Henry (1831–1915), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient William Henry (actor) (1914–1982), American performer; also billed as Bill Henry E. William Henry (1929–2022), American public official; chairman of FCC See also [ edit ] Fort William Henry , British fort built in upper New York during 1754–63 French and Indian War; referenced in Last of
135-670: The Mohicans William-Henry , name of Canadian city Sorel-Tracy from 1787 to 1845 Bill Henry (film) , 1919 American comedy directed by Jerome Storm [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Henry&oldid=1238521414 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
150-1503: The United Kingdom William Henry, Duke of Clarence (1765–1837), future King William IV of the United Kingdom Sportspeople [ edit ] William Henry (swimmer) (1859–1928), English Olympic competitor Billy Henry (1884–after 1960), Scottish footballer Bill Henry (footballer) (1904–1974), Australian rules forward Bill Henry (basketball) (1924–1985), American center Bill Henry (baseball, born 1927) (1927–2014), American pitcher for six MLB teams Bill Henry (baseball, born 1942) , American pitcher for New York Yankees Will Henry (footballer) (born 1998), English goalkeeper Writers [ edit ] William Henry (priest) (before 1728–1768), Anglo-Irish Dean of Killaloe William Arnon Henry (1850–1932), American academic and agriculturist from Ohio William J. Henry (1867–1955), American hymn writer Bill Henry (journalist) (1890–1970), American newspaper reporter Bill Fitz Henry (1903–1957), Australian journalist with The Bulletin William E. Henry (1918–1994), American psychologist William A. Henry III (1950–1994), American author and cultural critic Will Henry, pen name of American screenwriter Henry Wilson Allen (1912–1991) Will Henry, pen name of William Henry Wilson, cartoonist and writer of Wallace
165-612: The painter's interest in history painting, the genre for which the painter became famous. Henry's sons carried on his gun business, in Lancaster, in Philadelphia , in Nazareth, Pennsylvania , and then in Boulton, PA. One of his sons, John Joseph Henry , served as a sixteen-year-old rifleman on Benedict Arnold 's march on Quebec in the fall and winter of 1775 (he was captured and imprisoned for much of 1776), and later served as president judge of
SECTION 10
#1733115387537180-542: The second District in Pennsylvania from 1795–1811. Wallace the Brave Wallace the Brave is a humorous comic strip written and drawn by Will Henry and syndicated through Andrews McMeel Syndication . It debuted on the company's GoComics website in 2015. In March 2018 it began appearing in over 100 newspapers worldwide. Will Henry, the pen name of liquor store co-owner William Henry Wilson, previously drew
195-420: The strip's style. The fictional setting of Snug Harbor incorporates elements of Henry's hometown of Jamestown, Rhode Island . A Wallace the Brave collection was published in paperback by Andrews McMeel Publishing in 2017. In April 2018, the collection was nominated for Eisner Awards as best humor publication and best publication for kids ages 9-12 categories. This comic strip –related article
210-570: Was no longer producing guns, but he did acquire them—along with shoes, hats, flour—to supply them to state and continental troops.) In 1780 Henry informed Joseph Reed that he had "laid out…between Sixty & Seventy Thousand Pound" just to "purchase Leather and Paying Workmens Wages at the Shoe-Factory[s]" he had established "at Philadelphia, Allentown and Lancaster." His correspondence is filled with letters from Army leaders, including George Washington , begging for arms and other materials. Henry
225-628: Was the Treasurer of Lancaster Country for many years, a position filled by his wife, Ann Wood Henry , after Henry's death in 1786. Henry was an intellectual who helped found Lancaster's Juliana Library-Company in 1759, which during the Revolution and after was housed in his residence, and he held membership in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia , whose first Transactions (1771) printed Henry's account of his invention of
#536463