Heard, William Henry – Hegeman, Emmet D. C
Heard, William Henry
educator, clergyman, was born June 24, 1849, in Elberton, Ga. He has attained success as an educator and clergyman. He received his education at the South Carolina university, and at the Georgia university. He is now serving as United States minister resident and consul-general to Monravia, Liberia, Africa.
Hearn, Lafcadio
author, was born June 27, 1850, in the Ionian islands. He is a writer of Irish and Greek parentage long a resident of New Orleans, later of New York city, and more recently of Japan. He is the author of Stray Leaves from Strange Literature; Some Chinese Ghosts; Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma, the Story of a West Indian Slave; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Out of the East; Reveries and Studies in New Japan; Kokoro; and Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life.
Hearst, George F
United States senator, was born Sept. 3, 1820, in Missouri. He discovered the value of blackstone ore from assays; invested his capital in the Ophir mine, and in five years was a millionaire. He founded the San Francisco Daily Examiner, one of the best-known papers in the United States.
He was elected United States senator in 1887. He died March 1, 1891, in San Francisco, Cal.
Heath, Mrs. Clara B
poet, was born in Manchester, N. H. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Water Lilies and Other Poems; and also a brochure entitled Patrick Henry's Ride.
Heath, James E
public official, was born in Virginia. In 1850 he was appointed commissioner of pensions, holding the office until 1853.
Heath, James P
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 21, 1777, in Delaware. He was register in chancery at Annapolis at the commencement of the war of 1812; and served through the whole war as aidde-camp to General Winder. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1833 to 1835. He died June 12, 1854, in Georgetown, D. C.
Heath, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1797.
Heath, Lyman
musician, composer, was born Aug. 24, 1804, in Bow, N. H.
He was a teacher of music and the author of a number of songs that attained a wide popularity. He died June 30, 1870, in Nashua, N. H.
Heath, Sidney Moor
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 27, 1859, in Waterville, Maine. He subsequently went west, and in 1897 became a member of the Washington state legislature from the twenty-eighth district.
Heath, Upton S
lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was for many years United States judge of the district of Maryland.
Heath, William
soldier, statesman, was born March 7, 1737, in Roxbury, Mass.
He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1761 and 1771-74. He was a member of the committee of safety; and a delegate to the provincial congress in 1774-75. He rendered great service in the revolutionary war, and attained the rank of major-general in the army. He was a state senator in 1791-92; and judge of probate in 1793. He published a volume of Memoirs. He died Jan. 24, 1814, in Roxbury, Mass.
Heathcote, Caleb
merchant, was born March 6, 1665, in England. He was the organizer of the borough town of Westchester, and its first mayor. He was the first judge of the county of Westchester, and colonel of its militia.
Heaton, David
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 10, 1823, in Butler county, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio senate. In 1857 he removed to Minnesota; was elected to the senate of that state and was twice reelected. In 1863 he removed to New Berne, N. C., where he held a position under the treasury department. In 1868 he was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-first congress. He died June 25, 1870, in Washington, D. C.
Heatwole, Joel Prescott
editor, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1856, in Waterford, Ind. He was regent of the Minnesota university in 1891-97 and also served as mayor of Northfield in 1894- 95. He was a member of the fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses, and took an active part in the deliberations of that body. Since settling in Minnesota in 1882 he has been active in the political affairs of that state.
Hebard, William
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born in Connecticut. He settled in Vermont; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853. He was judge of the supreme court from 1842 to 1845; and judge of probate for seven years. He served seven years in the two houses of the legislature; and was two years attorney for Orange county.
Hebbard, Stephen Southwick
clergyman, author, was born in 1841. He is a universalist clergyman; and the author of The Secret of Christianity; and History of Wisconsin under the Dominion of France.
Heberling, William Lewis
inventor, writer, was born Feb. 1, 1847, in Martin's Ferry, Ohio. He has attained success as an inventor; and has written extensively on reform subjects.
Hebert, Joseph Guy
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 24, 1870, in West Baton Rouge, La. He attended select and private schools in his own parish, and in 1889 graduated from the Harper, Kan., Normal school. He then engaged in educational work for several years, and in 1892 graduated from the Tulane university law school. He has served as justice of the peace in Plaquemine, La.; and filled various other public positicas of honor.
Hebert, Paul Octave
was born Nov. 12, 1818, in Louisiana, and was the twelfth governor of that state. He died April 20, 1880.
Hecker, Isaac Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 18, 1819, in New York city. He was a Roman catholic clergyman who in early life was one of the noted Brook Farm community. Becoming a Roman catholic he founded the Order of the Paulists in 1858. In 1865 he established The Catholic World, of which he remained the editor till his death. He was the author of Questions of the Soul; Aspirations of Nature; Catholicity in the United States; Catholics and Protestants Agreeing on the School Question; and The Church and the Age. He died Dec. 22, 1888, in New York city.
Heckman, Charles Adam
soldier, was born Dec. 3, 1822, in Easton, Pa. In 1862 he was made brigadier-general of volunteers.
Heckman, George C
clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 26, 1825, in Easton, Pa. He has filled several pastorates in the presbyterian churches of Indiana and New York; and from 1870- 79 was president of Hanover college.
Heddaeus, John
educator, clergyman, poet, was born April 15, 1847, in Germany. He is a teacher of modern languages, and engaged at the military academy in Sing Sing, N. Y. He is the author of a work entitled Lord Lively.
Heddings, Elijah
clergyman, bishop, was born June 7, 1780, in Pine Plains, N. Y. At the general conference in 1824 he was elevated to the office of bishop of the methodist episcopal church.
He died April 9, 1852, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Hedge, Frederic Henry
educator, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1805, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, and professor of German language and literature at Harvard university in 1872-81. He was the author of Reason in Religion; The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition; A Christian Liturgy; Prose Writers of Germany; Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays; Atheism in Philosophy; Sermons; Hours with Martin Luther and German Classics; Other Essays; and Metrical Translations and Poems. He died Aug. 21, 1890, in Cambridge, Mass.
Hedge, Levi
educator, author, was born April 19, 1766, in Hardwick, Mass.
He was an educator of Massachusetts, professor of logic in Harvard university in 1810-27, and author of A System of Logic. He died Jan. 3, 1844, in Cambridge, Mass.
Hedges, Cornelius
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Oct. 28, 1831, in Westfield, Mass. He has been United States attorney, superintendent of public instruction, probate judge, and a member of the Montana state senate.
Heffernen, John
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 14, 1856, in Aurora, N. Y. He took a classical course in St.
Joseph's college of Dubuque, Iowa; and graduated in medicine from the Long Island college hospital of Brooklyn, N. Y.
He is a prominent physician and surgeon of Cascade, Iowa; and has been president and secretary of various medical bodies.
Heflin, Robert Stell
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 15, 1815, in Madison, Ga. He served in the Creek war in 1836; and was elected clerk of the superior court of Fayette county in 1836, and re-elected in 1838.
He was a member of the state senate in 1840 and 1841. He moved to Randolph county, Ga., in 1844; was a member of the legislature in 1849 and 1860. He was appointed judge of probate in 1865, and subsequently elected to that office, which he held until the state was admitted into the union. He was a republican elector; and was elected to the forty-first congress.
Hegeman, Emmet D. C
journalist, poet, was born May 23, 1859, in Avon, Ill.
After receiving his education at the Milford Classical and Collegiate seminary he entered the profession of journalism, and is now the editor and owner of the Gazette of Laurel, Del. He has written extensively both prose and verse for the periodical press; and his poems have appeared in Poets of America, and other standard works.