Background
Buist, Henry was born on March 3, 1863 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of George Lamb and Martha Allston (White) Buist.
Buist, Henry was born on March 3, 1863 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of George Lamb and Martha Allston (White) Buist.
Graduate Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, Cheshire, 1880. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1884. Law, University of Virginia, 1885.
Admitted to South Carolina. bar, 1886, and began practice at Charleston, member Buist & Buist, now senior member. Counsel for Carolina Savings Bank (director), South.A.L. Railway, Standard Oil Corporation of New Jersey, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Atlantic Life Insurance Company, Armour Fertilizer Works, American Agricultural Chemical Company, New Amsterdam Casualty Company, Standard Shipping Company, director Eagle & Phoenix Mills. Captain, Palmetto Guard.
Member American and South Carolina. State bar associations, Psi Upsilon. Clubs: Charleston, Country of Charleston (Charleston).
Married Frances Gualdo Ravenel, October 20, 1887. Children: George Lamb, Harriott Ravenel (Mistress Augustine T. Smythe), Frances Gualdo Ravenel (Mistress George East. Grimball), Henry.