Dark Shadows, Field claimed that segregation was part of human instinct which could not be overcome through legislation. 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's reign in 1848. The marriage of Henry and Henrietta was a successful one. While living in Gramercy Park, New York City, the Fields entertained a large group of friends who were eminent in art and literature, 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. He died at his home there on January 26, 1907. Popular culture Henry Martyn Field was portrayed by actor Jeffrey Lynn in the 1940 film of All This and Heaven Too, based on the novel by Field's collateral descendant Rachel Field. References Attribution External links American Congregationalist ministers 19th-century Christian clergy American travel writers American biographers American male biographers Field family 1822 births 1907 deaths People from Stockbridge, Massachusetts Editors of Christian publications American Presbyterian ministers