Henry Souther was an American politician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 18th district as a Republican.
[1] Henry Souther was born in the then independent city of Charlestown, Massachusetts (today part of Boston) on March 5, 1826 to Joseph and Hepsie Souther.
[1] He moved to Ridgway in Elk County, Pennsylvania in 1842 marrying Letitia née Patterson, having a son, John K. Souther, in 1850.
[1] He was named a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention, and was appointed the Surveyor General of Pennsylvania by governor Andrew Gregg Curtin for a single year in 1861.
[1] On April 4, 1891, Souther dropped dead in the street of Lynn and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett.