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Joseph Henry was born to Scottish immigrants in Albany, New York
in the 1799. Young Henry’s father died when he was eight and
financial circumstances forced his mother to send Henry to live with
his grandmother in Galway, New York. Most biographies of Henry describe
him as a handsome, well-built young man, full of energy, ideas and
a sense of the dramatic. His formal education was very limited and
by the time he was a teenager he held a job as village handyman. In
his free time, Henry’s dramatic interested led him to read fiction,
write and produce plays - his mechanical abilities expressed themselves
in ingenious stage sets and lighting. |
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