Henry Maunsell Schieffelin

Henry Maunsell Schieffelin, was an American businessman, philanthropist and consul general in Liberia. He was a founding member and President of the New York Colonization Society who financed a mission to explore the interior of Liberia.

Biography

Henry Maunsell Schieffelin was the first son of Henry Hamilton Schieffelin and Maria Theresa Schieffelin. He married Sarah Louisa Wagstaff in 1835; the couple had no children. After his first wife’s death, Schieffelin married Sarah Minerva Kendall from Augusta, ME, in 1859. The couple had two daughters: Frances, and Mary. The family lived in a luxuriously furnished five-story house in Manhattan on 665 Fifth Avenue between East 52nd and East 53rd Street and kept a country home in Greek Revival style, called Ashton, in Yonkers, NY.
Schieffelin was a partner in Schieffelin & Co, managed by his nephew William Henry Schieffelin.

Schieffelin donated to a school in Liberia that is still called Schieffelin School or Schieffelin Camp today.

Schieffelin died in Alexandria, Egypt, while visiting his daughter Frances Kendall Schieffelin and his son-in-law Ernest Howard Crosby, who was appointed a Judge on the Mixed Tribunals in Alexandria by President Harrison.