Talk:Keith McHenry

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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Cleshne (talk) 17:28, 18 November 2014 (UTC) The person in question is the founder of an organization, Food Not Bombs - that has a lengthy entry. He is the author of two books. The article is a stub. It almost seems that the nominator for speedy deletion has a problem with the person's politics.[reply]

Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --Cleshne (talk) 06:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC) The person is an author and founder of activist groups, besides Food Not Bombs. Please do not delete or redirect. Cleshne (talk) 06:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keith McHenry's own claim of descent from U.S. Founding Father James McHenry[edit]

I removed the following from the Keith McHenry page.

Keith's paternal great, great, great grandfather, Dr James McHenry was on George Washington’s staff during the War for Independence a delegate to the Continental Congress, and was Secretary of War under Washington and Adams.

I also removed a reference to it on the James McHenry page. This appears to be either in violation of COI or else is simply self-reported by Keith McHenry on his personal website here: http://foodnotbombs.net/long_keithbio.html

Disproof: Keith McHenry's father's birth certificate appears online at Ancestry.com (limited access due to subscription service) at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8703/8577a21322d4c77f61ea9b62a74e59a3?pid=150089377 (the identity of Keith McHenry's father and grandmother can be compared and agrees with the names he gives on his personal website; as well the employer and employment of his grandfather agrees with the same personal website). From this one can trace through census records; civil birth, marriage, and death records; and christening and marriage records of the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches the following lineage for Keith McHenry:

Keith McHenry (b. 1957) < Donald Keith McHenry (b. 1935) < Donald Edward McHenry (1895-1969) < Edward James McHenry (1865-1918) < Daniel McHenry (1841-aft 1900) < James McHenry (b. 1800 in Scotland). The family and immediate descendants of the surname McHenry belonging to the U.S. Founding Father James McHenry can be found on the website of the Maryland Historical Society here: http://www.mdhs.org/findingaid/john-mchenry-family-papers-ms-3076-1764-1947

As such, while one cannot say definitively that Keith McHenry is entirely unrelated to James McHenry as there may or may not be some distant kinship in Scotland, it can be said with certainty that he is not a descendant of the Founding Father. Moreover, the particular identity of Keith McHenry's great-great-great-grandfather is this James McHenry who was born in 1800 in Scotland while James McHenry of Maryland in the United States, the Founding Father, had only two sons born in 1786 and 1791 respectively, neither of whom was named James and the older of whom (age 13 or 14 and living in Maryland at the time Keith McHenry's ancestor James was born in Scotland) did not have children until after his 1812 marriage.

Still further information on the Founding Father and his family can be found at the website of the Maryland State Archives (again, providing marriage and family information for the critical generations) here: https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000800/000895/html/895bio.html As well, we can see from the MSA's data that the Founding Father was born in and emigrated from Ireland, suggesting there may be no relationship whatsoever between the two McHenry families. --Quissett (talk) 06:13, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

migrating reference dump from article space to talk[edit]

Graywalls (talk) 04:21, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

anti-vaccination?[edit]

It seems he opposes mandatoriness of vaccination, not the vaccination itself. I don't support either position, but they are significantly and importantly different, imo. 169.233.135.196 (talk) 21:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]