Henry Martyn Field

Henry Martyn Field (April 3, 1822 – January 26, 1907) was an American author and clergyman. He was the publisher and editor of The Evangelist for 44 years. He traveled extensively and his travel books were unusually popular.

Field married Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a former governess who has been named in the murder-suicide of the Praslin family of Paris. She left Europe for New York City and Field and Desportes were married.

Early life Brother of Cyrus West Field, David Dudley Field II, and Stephen Johnson Field, Henry Martyn Field was born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts on April 3, 1822. The eighth of nine children, he was son of David Dudley Field I, a minister from Madison, Connecticut, and Submit Dickinson Field.

Personal life

Field married Mlle. Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, the one-time governess to the ill-fated Charles de Choiseul-Praslin, Duc de Praslin whose murder of his wife Fanny (daughter of Marshal Horace Sebastiani) and apparent suicide help set off the events leading to the overthrow of King Louis Philippe I's reign in 1848. The marriage of Henry and Henrietta was a successful one. like Eastman Johnson. Samuel Morse, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Kemble, and William Cullen Bryant regularly attended their salon in Gramercy Park.

Henrietta died in 1875 in New York City. He went on a tour around the world for 15 months. Upon his return, he married Miss Frances E. Dwight in Stockbridge at his country home, Windmore-on-the-Hill. He spent the last years of his life in retirement at Stockbridge, where he wrote biographies about his brothers.