Henry H. Persons (December 16, 1851 – November 10, 1925) was an American businessman, banker, and politician from New York.
Persons was born on December 16, 1851, in East Aurora, New York, the son of Henry Ziba Persons, an East Aurora businessman, postmaster, and bank president, and Mary White.
[1] Persons began attending Cornell University in 1871, but left the school after a year.
[6] In the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Canals and played a key role in procuring nine million dollars for canal appropriations, and served on a special committee to investigate the murder of Robert Ross.
In 1905, Governor Higgins appointed him President of the State Water Supply Commission.