Henry Inman

Henry Inman. . , Inman Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Colonia, was named for the painter Henry Inman (1801-46), the leading American portraitist of his time. Born in Utica, New York, Inman excelled in portrait painting and created lasting works of President Martin Van Buren, William H. Seward, Henry Rutgers, Bishop William White, Chief Justices John Marshall and Samuel Nelson, DeWitt Clinton, John James Audubon, Clara Barton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, English poet William Wordsworth and more than 30 native American portraits, of which nearly a dozen are in the collection of the White House., Inman’s family members later resided in Colonia, including Colonel Henry Inman (1837-99), esteemed Civil War Army officer and frontier history author with works such as Old Santa Fe Trail, Great Salt Lake Trail and The Ranch on the Ox-hide; John O’Brien Inman (1828-96), who followed his father’s trade and achieved renown as a painter in New York, Paris and Rome (“Moonlight Skating, Central Park, the Lake and the Terrace”); Mary Lawrence Inman (1826-60, who married coal and lumber merchant Smith Cutter Coddington (1812-68) of Woodbridge., More information visit www.wthpc.org , Woodbridge Township Historic Preservation Commission , Mayor John E. McCormac Woodbridge Township 2013