James Alexander Henshall

James Alexander Henshall
Portrait of James alexander Henhall: Book of the black bass (frontispiece)
Born	(1836-02-29)February 29, 1836 Baltimore, Maryland
Died	April 4, 1925(1925-04-04) (aged 89) Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation	Writer, Politician
Nationality	American
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	Fishing
Spouse	Hester Stansbury Ferguson (m. 1854)
1st Mayor of Oconomowoc
In office April 21, 1868 - April 5, 1870
Preceded by	David Henry Rockwell
Succeeded by	William Thompson

James Alexander Henshall (February 29, 1836 – April 4, 1925) was an author on fishing. He was known as the "apostle of the black bass". His book Bass, Pike, Perch and other Game Fishes of America (1903) is part of the American Sportsman's Library. And was Mayor of Oconomowoc from 1868 - 1870.

Biography

He was born on February 29, 1836, in Baltimore, Maryland, to James Gershom Henshall and Clarissa Holt. He married Hester Stansbury Ferguson, a botanical collector and notable artist of plants, on June 9, 1854. He died on April 4, 1925, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Henshall was claimed to never having children during his lifetime.

Mayor of Oconomowoc

Henshall moved to Oconomowoc Wisconsin, in the 1860’s and was elected to become the first mayor in 1868 and served in the Town Council for two years. Henshall retired as mayor in 1870 and moved out of Oconomowoc soon after. Many people argue that Henshall was not the first mayor and that Washington W. Collins was. But history books in Wisconsin show that Henshall was the city's first mayor. 

External links

Media related to James Alexander Henshall at Wikimedia Commons

• Works by James Alexander Henshall at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about James Alexander Henshall at the Internet Archive