Henry, William R., 1872-

Socialist, newspaper compositor, and lawyer, William R. Henry was born in Maine and moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1890. He worked at the Lynn Item, the Boston Globe, and the Boston American, and in 1904 passed the Massachusetts bar. Later that year he married Bessie Louise Hammond, a suffragist. Both Bessie and William ran for public office in Lynn as Socialists. He was a founder of the progressive Lynn Twentieth Century Club, lobbied for the abolition of capital punishment in Massachusetts, and worked on the administration of the Boston School of Social Science. His sister-in-law, Grace De Wolfe Hammond, attended the State Normal School in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from 1908 to 1909.