Henry Harrison Hathorn (November 28, 1813 – February 20, 1887) was a 19th-century American businessman and politician who served two terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from New York from 1873 to 1877.
Personal Born in Greenfield, New York, Hathorn attended the common schools and graduated from the public schools of Greenfield.
Business career Hathorn engaged in mercantile pursuits in Saratoga Springs from 1839 to 1849. He discovered and plumbed the "Hathorn Mineral Spring" and was the proprietor of Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs. In 1854 he purchased "Congress Hall" and expanded it, adding another story and a ballroom.
Political career Hathorn served as Sheriff of Saratoga County from 1853 to 1856 and from 1862 to 1865. He was Town Supervisor of Saratoga Springs in 1858, 1860, 1866, and 1867.
Congress Hathorn was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1877).
Death and burial He died at Saratoga Springs, New York on February 20, 1887, and was interred in Greenridge Cemetery.
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