Henry Scarsbrook Langhorne

Henry Scarsbrook Langhorne (November 3, 1790 – December 16, 1854) was an American landowner and farmer.

Early life Langhorne was born November 3, 1790, at "Gambell", the family ancestral home in Warwick County, Virginia. Henry was the youngest of five children of John Scarsbrook Langhorne and Elizabeth Langhorne, first cousins who had married in 1782, which was customary at the time to retain family wealth. Gambell had been built in 1675 by the original Langhorne family immigrant, John Langhorne. who emigrated from Bristol, England. The colonial homestead strategically situated between Water's Creek and the James River was destroyed by fire in 1818, and the land is now home to the Mariners' Museum in Newport News.

Career Although he was first seated on some of the Cumberland County, Virginia, lands that he had inherited through his mother, he quickly resolved to move to Lynchburg with his brother Maurice. An active and keen agriculturist, the planting of tobacco was no longer as profitable as it had once been, and after an early venture at the Farm Mills in Amherst was ruined by flood in 1826, brothers Henry and Maurice erected Lynchburg Milling Co. flour mill, also known as Langhorne Mills, which was built in 1831.

In 1845, he retired and relocated to "Cloverdale", the 3,500-acre Botetourt County plantation he had just purchased from his niece's husband George Plater Tayloe of Buena Vista. He continued to purchase smaller tracts and at the time of his death, he owned a total of 3,892 acres. Frances (Fanny) Steptoe Langhorne (1829–1889), who died unmarried.

Charles Scott Langhorne (1836–1896), who married Katherine Page Waller (1840–1920). Edward Alexander Langhorne (1837–1861), who died of typhoid during the U.S. Civil War. George Washington Langhorne (1839–1905), who married Nannie (née Armistead) Langhorne. Anne Scott Langhorne (1840–1920), who married Maurice Scarsbrooke Langhorne (1823–1908). Mary Catherine Langhorne (1845–1924), who did not marry and became a "schoolmistress."

Henry Langhorne died on December 16, 1854, in Fincastle in Botetourt County, Virginia, and was buried at the Callaway-Steptoe Cemetery, New London in Bedford County, Virginia. His eldest son John inherited Langhorne Mills, along with the bulk of his father's estate. His son James was given the 13,000-acre "Langdale" plantation located near the border of North Carolina.