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Hensley, James L – Herbert, Philip T

Hensley, James L

soldier, physician, lawyer, state legislator, was born Jan. 24, 1833, in Rockingham county, Va.

During the war he served in the ninetysixth regiment West Virginia militia. In 1876 he was elected a member of the West Virginia legislature. The following year he moved to Marion, Ohio, and was subsequently elected to the seventy-second general assembly of Ohio; and acted as chaplain of that body.

Hensley, William N

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 18, 1846, in Woodford county, Ky. He served two terms as city attorney of Columbus, Neb.; two terms as police judge; and for six years was county judge of Platte county.

Henson, Poindexter Smith

clergyman, journalist, was born Dec. 7, 1831, in Fluvanna county, Va. In 1867 he became pastor of the Broad Street church in Philadelphia, which he left in 1867, to organize the Memorial church, where he gathered the largest protestant congregation in that city. He is also editor of the Baptist Teacher.

Henszey, Samuel A

railroad president, was born Feb. 16, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1892 he has been president of the Raleigh and Western railway.

Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus

educator, entomologist, was born July 25, 1797, in France. He was a French educator well known as an entomologist. He came to America in 1816, and taught in the university of North Carolina and elsewhere in the south. He died Nov. 4, 1856, in Marianna, Fla.

Hepburn, James Curtis

clergyman, missionary, author, was born in 1815 in Milton, Pa. He is a missionary to Japan of note as a lexicographer; and the author of A Japanese and English Dictionary; and A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridgement of the earlier work.

Hepburn, Neil Jamieson

oculist and aurist, author, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Scotland. He devotes his attention exclusively to diseases of the eye and ear; has been inspector of the board of health of Freehold, N. J.; and lecturer on ophthalmology at the New York polyclinic. He is the author of Notes on Hypodermic Use of Cocaine; Therapeusis of Glaucoma, and other works.

Herbert, Hilary Abner

soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born March 12, 1834, in Laurensville, S. C. He entered the confederate army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fiftysecond congresses; and declined re-election. In 1893 he was appointed secretary of the navy, serving until 1897.

Herbert, John C

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1815 to 1819; and a presidential elector in 1824.

Herbert, John Ferdinand

contractor, insurance, legislator, was born Jan. 25, 1859, in New Orleans, La. He received his education at the St. Mary's college of Opelousas, La. He has been a successful contractor; and is now connected with the Mutual Life Insurance company at Gretna, La. He has served with distinction as a member of the Louisiana state legislature, and filled various other offices of trust.

Herbert, Paul

soldier, governor, was born in Louisiana. He was governor of Louisiana from 1853 to 1858; and was made brigadier-general in the southern army in 1861.

Herbert, Philip T

congressman, was born in Alabama. He was a representative in congress from California from 1855 to 1857. con-