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Haveland, Laura Smith

philanthropist, was born Dec. 20, 1808, in Canada. She was instrumental in founding philanthropic institutes and asylums, and during the civil war was a minister of aid and comfort to the suffering in hospitals and camps.

Haven, Erastus Otis

bishop, author, was born Nov. 1, 1820, in Boston, Mass. He was a methodist bishop, chancellor of Syracuse university; and from 1863-69 president of the university of Michigan. He was the author of Pillars of Truth; Young Man Advised; Rhetoric; and American Progress. He died in August, 1881, in Salem, Ore.

Haven, Gilbert

bishop, author, was born Sept. 19, 1821, in Malden, Mass. He was a methodist bishop whose official residence was in Atlanta, and was the author of National Sermons; The Pilgrim's Wallet; Our Next-Door Neighbor, or Mexico of To-Day; Life of Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher; and Christus Consolator.

He died Jan. 30, 1880, in Malden, Mass.

Haven, John

state senator, was born April 12, 1824, in Braddock's Field, Pa.

In 1868 he was elected to the Indiana state senate.

Haven, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 4, 1816, in Dennis, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman, and a professor in the Chicago Theological seminary in 1858-70. He was the author of Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy and Theology; and Systematic Theology. He died May 23, 1874, in Chicago, Ill.

Haven, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 15, 1727, in Framingham, Mass. In 1752 he was pastor of the First Congregational church in Portsmouth, N.

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Among his printed sermons are on the Death of George II.; on the Restoration of Peace; The Dudleian Lecture.

Haven, Samuel Foster

archæologist, author, was born May 28, 1806, in Dedham, Mass. He was an archæologist who was librarian of the American Antiquarian society at Worcester, and the author of Archæology of the United States; and History of the Grants Under the Great Council for New England. He died Sept. 5, 1881, in Worcester, Mass.

Haven, Solomon George

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1810, in Chenango county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from. 1851 to 1857. He died Dec. 24, 1861, in Buffalo, N. Y.

Havens, Harrison E

journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1837, in Franklin county, Ohio. He served for a short time as captain in the army.

He was elected from Missouri to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.

Havens, James

clergyman, was born Dec. 25, 1763, in Mason county, Ky.

He was one of the founders of methodism in the northwest, especially in Indiana, where the last forty years of his life were spent. He died in November, 1864, in Indiana.

Havens, Jonathan N

congressman. He was for nine years a member of the New York assembly from Suffolk county; and a representative in congress from 1795 to 1799. He died in 1799.

Havens, Ruth G. D

educator, author, poet, was born Jan. 12, 1845, in Madison, Conn. She is a life-long abolitionist and supporter of the doctrine of the equality of races and sexes, and in woman suffrage. She is the author of several stories, sketches, and numerous poems.