Rev. Henry Dana Ward

1797 - 1884  (87 years)

• Name	Henry Dana Ward
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	13 Jan 1797	Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Feb 1884	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   [1, 2]
  Burial	Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I47717	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Walter Ward,   b. 10 Aug 1758, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 20 Aug 1835, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Denny,   b. 1 Mar 1760, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 18 Nov 1846, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	28 Nov 1782	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Notes	Intention 25 Sep 1782.
  Family ID	F27667	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Galbraith,   b. 7 Mar 1807, Dublin, Ireland d. 19 Feb 1887, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	26 May 1842	Fairfax County, Virginia   [2]
  Children	> 1. Artemas Ward,   b. 20 May 1848, New York, New York d. 14 Mar 1925, New York, New York (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F27681	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Author of several works of evangelical vigor, including Free Masonry: Its Pretensions Exposed in Faithful Extracts of Its Standard Authors, 1828; Glad tidings: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, 1838; The gospel of the Kingdom; a Kingdom not of this world; not in this world; but to come in the heavenly country, of the resurrection from the dead and of the restitution of all things, 1870; and History of the cross: the pagan origin, and idolatrous adoption and worship, of the image, 1871.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9208] Find a Grave page for Rev Henry Dana Ward. [S742] The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925 by Charles Martyn. New York: Artemas Ward of the Seventh Generation, 1925. [S9204] Unindexed town record of Leicester, Massachusetts on familysearch.org. [S9205] Find a Grave page for Elizabeth Denny Ward., year only. [S9212] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 4, Family of John Alden, Fifth Generation Descendants of His Daughter, Ruth (Alden) Bass by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015.