Henry Hotchkiss Townshend

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Henry Hotchkiss Townshend (September 30, 1874-May 17, 1953) was an American lawyer and historian.

He was educated at four of the world's most prestigious institutions — Hopkins Grammar School, Yale College, Yale Law School and Christ Church College, Oxford University.

He authored many Connecticut Reports, and wrote the Maltby & Townshend history of the Grove Street Cemetery. He was also board director, Union & New Haven Trust Company and a founding director of the New Haven Historical Society. In 1913, he married Hannah Draper Osgood, the daughter of Edward Louis and Hannah Thwing Draper Osgood from Boston. Hannah Draper Osgood Townshend became a major force in the women's suffrage movement. In 1920, their only child, Henry Hotchkiss Townshend, Jr. was born.

His first legal case was the highly publized Oakley vs. Associated Press. He successfully challenged the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution before the United States Supreme Court, addressing the right to deduct from state taxes.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• S.J. Clarke Publishing (2002). Henry Hotchkiss Townsend.
• Grove Street Cemetery (2005). Henry H. Townsend Paper.