I really like this one. This proves that he was a fiscal conservative.
Funny. Never thought of that.
He was obviously enamored of marriage. He wrote to his grandson, who moved to the frontiers of Illinois to practice law, and encouraged him to marry. “Celibacy is good, but marriage is better!” Henry remarried ten years to the day after his first wife died. The grandson became a US Senator and Chief Justice of the IL Supreme Court. Henry used to write advice to the neophyte lawyer, as he was, himself, a local judge.