Torrey-Gibbons-Toulmin-Henshaw family of Alabama
Note: This is just one of 612 family
groupings listed on The
Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or
more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or
adoption.
Some families traditionally (and perhaps properly) considered
separately are joined together here if linked by marriage or
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- Harry Toulmin (1766-1823) — of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky. Born in Taunton, England,
September
7, 1766. Grandfather of Harry
Theophilus Toulmin. Secretary of
state of Kentucky, 1796-1804; first president,
Transylvania University, 1804-18; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1818-19. Died in Millry, Washington
County, Ala., November
11, 1823. Interment somewhere
in Millry, Ala.; cenotaph at Springhill
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
- James Dellet (1788-1848) — of Alabama. Born in
Camden, Camden
County, N.J., February
18, 1788. Father of Emma Dellet (who married Lyman
Gibbons); grandfather of Helen Dellet Gibbons (who married Charles
John Torrey). Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1839-41, 1843-45 (5th District
1839-41, 1st District 1843-45). Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., December
21, 1848. Interment in private or family graveyard.
- Lyman Gibbons (1808-1879) — Born in Dormansville, Albany
County, N.Y., June 3,
1808. Son of John Gibbons and Elizabeth (Hall) Gibbons; married,
May
10, 1853, to Emma Dellet (daughter of James
Dellet); father of Helen Dellet Gibbons (who married Charles
John Torrey). Lawyer; planter;
circuit judge in Alabama, 1851-52; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1852-54; delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861. Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., June 27,
1879. Burial
location unknown.
- Rufus Campbell Torrey (1813-1882) — Born in Oxford,
Worcester
County, Mass., February
19, 1813. Married to Elizabeth Sargent Henshaw and Mary (Isbell)
Henshaw; father of Elizabeth Henshaw Torrey (who married Harry
Pillans) and Charles
John Torrey; uncle of Mary Montague Henshaw (who married Harry
Theophilus Toulmin). Member of Alabama state legislature, 1875.
Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., September
13, 1882. Burial
location unknown.
- Harry Theophilus Toulmin (1838-1916) — Born in
Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., March 4,
1838. Grandson of Harry
Toulmin; son of Gen. Theophilus Lindsey Toulmin and Amante
Elizabeth (Juzan) Toulmin; married to Mary Montague Henshaw (niece of
Rufus
Campbell Torrey). Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1870-72; circuit judge in
Alabama, 1874-82; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, 1887-1916;
died in office 1916. Died in Toulminville, Mobile
County, Ala., November
12, 1916. Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
- Harry Pillans (1847-1940) — of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala. Born in Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex., June 27,
1847. Son of Palmer Job Pillans and Laura Malvina (Roberts)
Pillans; married to Elizabeth Henshaw Torrey (daughter of Rufus
Campbell Torrey). Lawyer; delegate to
Alabama state constitutional convention, 1901; mayor of
Mobile, Ala., 1914-15, 1916-17, 1919-21. Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., March 12,
1940. Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
- Charles John Torrey (1850-1917) — Born in Claiborne,
Monroe
County, Ala., April 25,
1850. Son of Rufus
Campbell Torrey and Elizabeth Sargent (Henshaw) Torrey; married
1887 to
Helen Dellet Gibbons (granddaughter of James
Dellet; daughter of Lyman
Gibbons). Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives. Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., July 13,
1917. Burial
location unknown.
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