Henry Maunsell Schieffelin

Henry Maunsell Schieffelin (New York City, August 7, 1808 – Alexandria, Egypt, July 27, 1890), was an American businessman, philanthropist and consul general in Liberia.

[1][2] He was a founding member and President of the New York Colonization Society who financed a mission to explore the interior of Liberia.

[1] After his first wife’s death, Schieffelin married Sarah Minerva Kendall from Augusta, ME, in 1859.

[1] The family lived in a luxuriously furnished five-story house in Manhattan on 665 Fifth Avenue between East 52nd and East 53rd Street and kept a country home in Greek Revival style, called Ashton, in Yonkers, NY.

[1] Schieffelin died in Alexandria, Egypt, while visiting his daughter Frances Kendall Schieffelin and his son-in-law Ernest Howard Crosby, who was appointed a Judge on the Mixed Tribunals in Alexandria by President Harrison.