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Hemenway, James A – Hendel, William

Hemenway, James A

lawyer, congressman, was born March 8, 1860, in Boonville , Ind. In 1886 and again in 1888 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the second judicial circuit of Indiana; and in 1890 was selected as the member of the republican state committee from the first district. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Hemingway, Wilson Edwin

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 4, 1854, near Carrollton , Miss. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of Arkansas at Little judge of the supreme court of Arkansas.

Rock; and served with distinction as

Hemphill, John

United States senator. He was a senator in congress from Texas from 1859 until that state seceded, when he became identified with the great rebellion; and was expelled from the senate July 10, 1861. He died Jan. 4, 1862, in Richmond, Va.

Hemphill, John J

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1849, in Chester, S. C. In 1876 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; and was reelected in 1878 and 1880. He was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fiftyfirst, and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.

Hemphill, Joseph

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1770 in Delaware county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1803, again from 1819 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1831. He was for some time judge of the district court of Philadelphia.

He died May 29, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hempstead, Gay

lawyer, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1847, in Little Rock, Ark. He is a successful lawyer and lecturer, and grand secretary of the Freemasons for the state of Arkansas. He is the author of Hempstead's School History of Arkansas; and two volumes of poems.

Hempstead, Stephen

governor.

He was governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854.

He died Feb. 16, 1883.

Hemsley, William

congressman.

He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1782 to 1784.

Hemsteger, J. Boni

journalist, was born Sept. 3, 1858, in Piqua, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education at the St. Boniface Parochial school; and then attended the St. Mary's college of Dayton , Ohio. During 1878-94 he was editor and owner of The Correspondent; in 1889 of the Daily Democrat; and during 1888-90 of The Post of Greenville, Ohio.

Since 1893 he has been president and manager of the Correspondent Show Printing company of Piqua, Ohio.

Henck, John Benjamin

educator, author, was born in November, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a professor of engineering in the Massachusetts institute of Technology in 1865-81, and the author of a Field Book for Railway Engineers.

Hendee, George Whitman

lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was was born Nov. 30, 1832, in Stowe, Vt. He prosecuting attorney in 1858; a member of the state house of representatives in 1861 and 1862; and of the state senate in 1866 , 1867, and 1868. He was lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1869; was governor in 1870; and was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Hendel, William

clergyman, was born about 1730, in Germany. After completing his theological studies, he removed to the United States in 1764 and became one of the pioneers of the German reformed church in this country. He died Sept. 29, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa.