{{short description|American politician}} {{infobox officeholder | image = Friend Humphrey.jpg | office = Mayor of Albany, New York | term_start = 1849 | term_end = 1850 | predecessor = John Taylor | successor = Franklin Townsend | term_start1 = 1843 | term_end1 = 1845 | predecessor1 = Barent Philip Staats | successor1 = John Keyes Paige | office2 = Member of the New York State Senate for the Third District | term_start2 = 1840 | term_end2 = 1841 | predecessor2 = Edward P. Livingston | successor2 = Erastus Corning | birth_date = {{birth date|1787|03|08}} | birth_place = Simsbury, Connecticut | death_date = {{death date and age|1854|03|15|1787|03|08}} | death_place = Albany, New York | party = Whig | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Hannah Hinman<br>||1822|reason=her death}} * {{marriage|Julia Ann Hoyt<br>|1824|1851|reason=her death}} }} | children = | relations = }}
'''Friend Humphrey''' (March 8, 1787 – March 15, 1854) was an American merchant, Whig state Senator from New York, and Mayor of Albany from 1849 to 1850.
==Early life== He was born in Simsbury, Connecticut on March 8, 1787. He was one of the sons of Noah Humphrey Jr. (1726–{{circa|1790}}) and Margaret ({{nee}} Phelps) Humphrey ({{circa|1746}}–{{circa|1808}}).<ref name="Humphreys1885"/> His brother was General Chauncey Humphrey.<ref name="Howell1886"/>
==Career== {{Quote box| quote = He was courageous, strong, very energetic, never afraid to do right. Albany never had a Mayor better understood or more popular.<ref name="Howell1886"/>| source = ''Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886'', 1886| width = 50%| align = left}} In 1811, he moved to Albany, New York, where he engaged in the leather trade,<ref name="Howell1886">{{cite book |last1=Howell |first1=George Rogers |title=Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886. With portraits, biographies and illustrations. [By] Howell [and] Tenney. Assisted by local writers |date=1 January 1886 |publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company |page=664 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26PWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA664 |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> under the name Friend Humphrey's Son of Albany.<ref name="Hamilton1911">{{cite book |title=Hamilton Literary Magazine |date=1911 |publisher=Hamilton College. |page=169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSA_AQAAMAAJ&dq=albany+mayor+friend+humphrey&pg=PA169 |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
He was a Whig member of the New York State Senate (3rd D.) in 1840 and 1841.<ref name="Hough1858"/>
He was elected as Mayor of Albany from 1843 to 1845, and from 1849 to 1850.<ref name="Hough1858">{{cite book |last1=Hough |first1=Benjamin Franklin |title=The New York Civil List: Containing the Names and Origin of the Civil Divisions, and the Names and Dates of Election Or Appointment of the Principal State and County Officers from the Revolution to the Present Time |date=1858 |publisher=Weed, Parsons and Company |pages=132f, 142, 425 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA132 |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> As mayor, he was known for the advancement of learning and "sound morals" by closing the markets on Sunday.<ref name="Howell1886"/>
==Personal life== Humphrey married Hannah Hinman (1792–1822), a daughter of Dr. Aaron B. Hinman and Gertrude ({{nee}} VanderHeyden) Hinman. Her sister Gertrude married Andrew Douw Lansing.<ref name="Hinman1852">{{cite book |last1=Hinman |first1=Royal Ralph |title=A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut: With the Time of Their Arrival in the Country and Colony, Their Standing in Society, Place of Residence, Condition in Life, where From, Business, Etc. as Far as is Found on Record |date=1852 |publisher=Higginson Book Company |page=837 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA837 |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Before her death, they were the parents of:<ref name="Hinman1852"/>
* Gideon Humphrey (1814–1814), who died in infancy.<ref name="Humphreys1885"/> * Harriet Louisa Humphrey (1819–1897), who married Clark B. Gregory of Danbury.<ref name="Hinman1852"/> * Aaron Hinman Humphrey (1822–1822), who died in infancy.<ref name="Humphreys1885"/>
In 1824, he married Julia Ann Hoyt (1804–1851), a daughter of Mary ({{nee}} Barnum) Hoyt and David Picket Hoyt, a descendant of Simon Hoyt. The Hoyt family arrived at Massachusetts in 1628 and settled in Windsor, Connecticut, and Walker Hoyt was one of the first settlers of Norwalk.<ref name="1912Wedding">{{cite news |title=COLGATE HOYT WEDS MRS. K.S. CHEESMAN; Banker and Railroad Director Married to Widow at Wood Manse, Greenwich, Conn. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/21/100587522.pdf |access-date=8 November 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=21 July 1912}}</ref> Through her brother James, she was an aunt to Colgate Hoyt and Wayland Hoyt. Together, they were the parents of:
* Theodore Friend Humphrey (1829–1911), a merchant and member of Friend Humphrey's Sons who married Margaret McPherson in 1854.<ref name="Humphreys1885">[https://archive.org/details/humphreysfamilyi02hump The Humphreys family in America, Frederick Humphreys, 1885, p. 570 ]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxARAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA117 | title=The Heroes of the American Revolution and their Descendants| author=Henry Whittemore|publisher=The Heroes of the Revolution Publishing Co.| year=1897 |page=117}}</ref>{{refn|group=lower-alpha|In 1866, Theodore Friend Humphrey became one of the Directors of the National Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank of Albany, which later became a subsidiary of the Bank of New York.<ref>[https://ia802701.us.archive.org/17/items/humphreysfamilyi02hump/humphreysfamilyi02hump.pdf The Humphreys family in America, Frederick Humphreys, 1885, p. 570 ]</ref>}} * James Holt Humphrey (1832–1897), who married Annie Marie Olmsted, a daughter of George Gaylord Olmsted, in 1857.<ref name="Humphreys1885"/> * Correl Humphrey (1839–1907), who married Helen Clarissa Millard, daughter of David Johnson Millard.<ref name="Humphreys1885"/> * Alexander Beebe Humphrey (1845–1919), who married Mary Morrison Charles in 1878.<ref name="Humphreys1885"/>
He died on March 15, 1854, in Albany, leaving a good estate, and was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.<ref>Family Memorials in Prose and Verse, Theo. J. Elmore, Savannah, Georgia, Morning News Steam Printing House, 1880, Page 338</ref>
===Residence=== Around 1841, Humphrey built a two-story frame farmhouse with a gable roof and two symmetrically placed chimneys, today known as the Friend Humphrey House, in Colonie in Albany County, New York.
The transitional vernacular Greek Revival / Federal style dwelling,<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=212|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Friend Humphrey House|date=June 1982|accessdate=2010-10-13 |author=David G. Barnet|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}}</ref> was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://archives.albany.edu/concern/daos/8049g511w Page 15: Friend Humphrey; Mayor of Albany 1834-1845, 1849-1850, Undated] M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives Science Library *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204102010/http://www.albanyruralcemetery.org/albrurcem/Public_Officials.htm List] of Public Officials buried at Albany Rural Cemetery
{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = Edward P. Livingston | title = New York State Senate <br>Third District (Class 3) | years = 1840–1841 | after = Erastus Corning}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = Barent Philip Staats | title = Mayor of Albany | years = 1843–1845 | after = John Keyes Paige}} {{succession box | before = John Taylor | title = Mayor of Albany | years = 1849–1850 | after = Franklin Townsend}} {{s-end}}
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