Background
Brother of Cyrus West Field, David Dudley Field II, and Stephen Johnson Field, he was born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He graduated at Williams College in 1838, and was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Street Louis, Missouri, from 1842 to 1847, and of a Congregational church in West Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1850 to 1854.
Education
Graduate Williams, 1838. Studied theology.
Career
The interval between his two pastorates he spent in Europe. He spent the last years of his life in retirement at Stockbridge, where he died in 1907. His two volumes descriptive of a trip round the world in 1875–1876, entitled From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn (1876) and From Egypt to Japan (1877), are almost classic in their way, and have passed through more than twenty editions. the Field-Ingersoll Discussion (1888), On the Desert - Recent Events in Eqypt.
(1888), Old Spain and New Spain (1888), Bright Skies and Dark Shadows (1890), and of David Dudley Field (1898).
Writing about race in Bright Skies and Dark Shadows, Field claimed that segregation was part of human instinct which could not be overcome through legislation. The marriage of Henry and Henrietta was a successful one, and she died in the 1870s in New York City.
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.