Henry W. Lord

Lord was born in Northampton, Massachusetts,{{cite book|last=The Society|title=Pioneer Collections, Volume 3|date=1903|publisher=The Society|page=266|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XnwyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA266 }} and received an academic education in Andover, Massachusetts.{{cite book|last=United States. Congress|title=Official Congressional Directory|date=1882|publisher=United States. Congress|page=[https://archive.org/details/officialcongres07pringoog/page/n52 38]|url=https://archive.org/details/officialcongres07pringoog }} He studied law but did not practice. He moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1839. Four years later, he went to Pontiac, Michigan, and engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits, and foreign service. In 1876, he returned to Detroit.{{cite book|last=Headley|first=Phineas Camp|title=Public Men of To-day: Being Biographies of the President and Vice-president of the United States, Each Member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the Governors of the Several States. 1st series|date=1882|publisher=S. S. Scranton & Company|page=467|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=absBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA467 }}

In 1861, he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to become United States consul to Manchester, England. He served in that position until his resignation in 1867.{{cite book|last=United States. Congress|title=Official Congressional Directory|date=1882|publisher=United States. Congress|page=[https://archive.org/details/officialcongres07pringoog/page/n52 38]|url=https://archive.org/details/officialcongres07pringoog }} While in that post, he developed plans that improved consular services.{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits|date=1914|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gRQ9AAAAYAAJ/page/n579 565]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gRQ9AAAAYAAJ }}

He served on the Michigan board of corrections and charities from 1871 to 1882,{{cite book|last=W.S. George & Company|title=Red Book for the ... Legislature of the State of Michigan|date=1879|publisher=W.S. George & Company|page=418|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4kyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR7 }} and president of the board if trustees at Michigan Military Academy from 1878 to 1880.{{cite book|last=Free Press Book and Job Printing House|title=Annual Catalogue of the Michigan Military Academy|date=1880|publisher=Free Press Book and Job Printing House|page=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9flAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 }}{{cite book|last=Robert Smith Printing Company and|first=State Printers|title=Joint Documents of the State of Michigan, Volume 1|date=1879|publisher=Robert Smith Printing Company|page=109|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_v4nAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA109 }} In 1876, he served as a Presidential elector from Michigan.{{cite book|last=Michigan|title=Michigan Manual|date=1893|publisher=Michigan|page=252|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLCHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA252 }}

Lord was elected as a Republican candidate from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the 47th Congress, serving from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1883.{{cite book|last=Chardavoyne|first=David Gardner|title=United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics|date=2012|publisher=Wayne State University Press|page=134|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsmZphjPLJQC&pg=PA134 |isbn=978-0814337202}}{{cite book|last=Headley|first=Phineas Camp|title=Public Men of To-day: Being Biographies of the President and Vice-president of the United States, Each Member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the Governors of the Several States. 1st series|date=1882|publisher=S. S. Scranton & Company|page=798|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=absBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA798 }} He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1882.

He was appointed by President Chester A. Arthur to become register of the United States land office at Creelsburg, North Dakota on August 1, 1883. The office was transferred to Devils Lake, North Dakota on January 17, 1884, and Lord continued as register until April 18, 1888.{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits|date=1914|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gRQ9AAAAYAAJ/page/n579 565]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gRQ9AAAAYAAJ }}

At age 69, Lord was killed in a railroad accident near Butte, Montana, on January 25, 1891. He is interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit.{{cite book|last=United States Congress and|first=MichaelmW. H.|title=Official Congressional Directory, Volume 47|date=1883|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=85|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lB9Z_i8IWAEC&q=Henry+W+Lord++killed+in+a+railroad+accident+near+%5B%5BButte%2C+Montana&pg=RA1-PA85|isbn=9780403098019}}

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