Henry T. Thurber

Henry Thomas Thurber (April 28, 1854 – March 17, 1904) was an American attorney.

Thurber was born in Monroe, Michigan, on April 28, 1854, the son of Jefferson Gage Thurber and Mary Bartlett Gerrish Thurber. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1874. He married Elizabeth Brady Croul on October 20, 1880; they had five children, one of whom was Marion Bartlett Thurber.[1][2] He was a prominent lawyer and held the office of Private Secretary to the White House during Grover Cleveland's term as President of the United States from 1893 to 1897.[1][2][3][4] Thurber and his family resided in Detroit, Michigan, where he died on March 17, 1904, two weeks after an operation for appendicitis.[2][4]

  1. ^ a b Biographical Catalogue of the Xi Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1858—1897. New York: Pub. for the Chapter. June 1897. p. 44. Retrieved 7 January 2023 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c Swope, Belle McKinney Hays; Linn, John Blair (1905). History of the Families of McKinney-Brady-Quigley. Newville, Pennsylvania. p. 223. ISBN 9780598997937. Retrieved 7 January 2023 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "PRIVATE SECRETARY NAMED.; HENRY T. THURBER OF DETROIT CALLED BY MR. CLEVELAND". The New York Times. 25 February 1893. p. 1. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Henry T. Thurber Passes Away". San Francisco Call. Vol. 95, no. 109. 18 March 1904. Page 2, column 5. Retrieved 7 January 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.