Henry B Bolster (1792–1859) was a politically active entrepreneur in New York City during the early to mid 19th century.

[2] Henry also was the original founder of a stage coach line that made him a wealthy man.

Most early records and documentation refer to Henry B Bolster as Baruch (or Barack, Barck, etc.)

[7] An article that appeared on June 6, 1839, in the Hudson River Chronicle discusses the Loco-Focoism as Henry was fired as Superintendent of Pavements for the City of New York as a result of a shift of the political power in charge.

[8] Henry was a Trustee for the Knickerbocker Savings Bank in 1852 and a Director for the St Nicholas Insurance Company in 1853.

It looks like Samuel didn't work for the business directly until the early 1850s (according to his obit and the 1850 census that lists his occupation as Dry Goods).

[11] Simeon Mace Andrews returned from San Francisco after obtaining a small fortune from the gold rush in the 1850s.

[14] The business was sold in 1885 to the Broadway Surface Railroad Company as were all of the stage lines in New York City.

Here is a story from the New York Times July 11, 1885 telling of the auctioning of the old equipment: After this business was sold, another enterprise was started by unrelated individuals that was called the Fifth Avenue Stage Line which was a corporation.

Their route lay from Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, through Ninth to and down Broadway.

[15] On The EarlyRepublic.net website, a reference to this business was written as follows - which documents the initial purchase of the stage line by Samuel Andrews and "another": Before closing these "Reminiscences," it is pertinent to them to put on record a few illustrations of the passenger street travel of the preceding period.

In connection, then, with the notices of the primitive stage routes given in the early chapters, the following are added: In 1830 there was established an irregular line of stages (omnibuses) between Bleecker Street and the Bowling Green, and occasionally a passenger could have himself carried some distance above Bleecker Street.

In like manner, so late as 1836, Asa Hall and Kipp & Brown, of the Greenwich lines, had small stages ("carryalls" they were termed), in which passengers were transferred from Charles Street to their destination within the limit of Twentythird Street and Seventh Avenue.

Andrews, in company with another, bought the line, consisting of less than twenty stages, increased soon after to thirty.'

Eliza and Henry and most of their family members are buried in Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island.

Children Henry Clay Bolster (1827–1854) married Mary Jane Whitting in 1853.

Bolster, Ex Assistant Alderman of the XIth and XVIth Wards, aged 67 years, 1 month and 13 days.

The funeral will take place on Sunday the 24th inst at 1 o'clock PM from his late residence, No 33 West 43d St. His remains will be taken to Greenwood Cemetery.