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==Later life==
 
==Later life==
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From this time he withdrew from public life and lived quietly upon his estates adjacent to the city of Baltimore, where his services to his state and to his country were worthily commemorated by the neighboring works of [[Fort McHenry]], which have permanently preserved his name in the military annals of the nation, and in which, oddly enough the services of another military medical officer have recently been commemorated by the bestowal of his name upon one of its batteries, -Battery Lazear. Living then in elegant retirement but by no means in idleness, Dr. McHenry survived, a respected and honored citizen of the commonwealth, until his death, May 3, 1816.
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From this time he withdrew from public life and lived quietly upon his estates adjacent to the city of Baltimore, where his services to his state and to his country were worthily commemorated by the neighboring works of [[Fort McHenry]], which have permanently preserved his name in the military annals of the nation, and in which, oddly enough the services of another military medical officer have recently been commemorated by the bestowal of his name upon one of its batteries, -Battery Lazear. Living then in elegant retirement but by no means in idleness, Dr. McHenry survived, a respected and honored citizen of the commonwealth, until his death, May 3, 1816.  He was laid to west at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground in Baltimore.
    
==Quotes==
 
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