Henry William Ibbotson, the second son and third child of
Henry and Anne Frances Ibbotson, was born on July 14, 1838,
at a house on Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., corner of Henry
Street.
As recorded above, his father died when he was eleven years
of age. He was educated at the Mount Washington Collegiate
Institute. At the age of twenty-seven years, on November 2, 1865,
he married Lucy Matilda Cary, of Portland, Middlesex County,
Conn., a town about twelve miles south of Hartford, on the east
bank of the Connecticut River.
Henry records at the time of his writing his family history in
1877 "by the blessing of the Lord our union has been fruitful,
thus far, of five children: 1, Anne; 2, Henry Cary; 3, Lucy Cary;
4, Joseph Cary Frith; 5, Charles William Darling."
Lucy Matilda Cary was the eldest daughter of Joseph Bigelow
Cary of Portland, Conn., by his first wife, Lucy Hodge Cary, a
lady of high character and family. It is in the Cary family plot in
the rear of Trinity P. E. Church, in Portland, that a number of
the Ibbotsons and Forbes of that ilk are buried.
When Henry reached maturity he engaged in general business
and in time became connected with southern planters to whom he
had furnished various needs of their plantations. At the instance
of one Ramsay and others he was prevailed upon shortly after his
marriage to go to the south and act as their agent He did go and
was employed at Columbus, Miss., whore he stayed for some
years in the same work of buying cotton and arranging for the
trading of the cotton for the goods, supplies and equipment thai
the planters needed. He later became cashier of the bank of Co-
lumbus. Henry returned north in his latter days and lived in the
old Darling house on Bridge Street (now Broadway) cornor of
Union Avenue in Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. (see photo) and
later again at 336 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
He died on December 28, 1921, at Middletown, Conn., and was
buried in the Cary plot in the Trinity Church Cemetery, Portland.