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Heiges, George W – Helmick, William

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Heiges, George W

lawyer, legislator, was born May 18, 1842, in Dillsburg , Pa. He received his education at the education at the Cumberland Valley Normal school of Newville, Pa.; the normal school of his native city; the York County academy; and from private tutors in French and German.

Since 1867 he has been a member of the York bar, and member of the bars of the supreme a and superior courts of Pennsylvania. In 1873-74 he was a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives; and in and in 1885-86 was the last chief burgess of York of York borough. In 1891 he was one of the four delegates from his county to the constitutional convention.

Heilman, William

manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1824, in Germany. He was a reprea representative in the Indiana state legislature in 1870; and was a state senator in 1876 .

He resigned his seat in the state senate in 1879, having been elected a representative from Indiana to the fortysixth congress; and was re-elected to the fortythe fortyseventh congress as a republican.

Heilprin, Angelo

naturalist, author, was born March 31, 1853, in Hungary. He is a Philadelphia naturalist and naturalist and artist, and has been professor of geology at Wagner Free institute since 1885. He 1885. He is the author of Contributions to the Tertiary Geology and Paleontology of the United States; Town Geology, the Lesthe Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks; Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals; Explorations on the West Coast of Florida; Animal Life of Our Seashore; Geological Evidences of Evolution ; and The Arctic Problem.

Heilprin, Louis

author, was born July 2, 1851, in Hungary. He is a writer of New York city; and the author of The Story of Hungary (with A. Vambéry); Historical Reference Book; and ; and Chronological Table of Universal History. ✓ HEILPRIN, MICHAEL, author, was born in 1823 in Poland. He was a Polish He was a Polish refugee and scholar who supported Kossuth in Hungary in 1848, and came to the United States in 1850. He published Historical Poetry of the Hebrews Critically Examined. He died May 10, 1888, in 1888, in Summit, N. J.

Heiner, Daniel Broadhead

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 30, 1854 , in Kittanning, Pa. He was elected diselected district attorney of Pennsylvania in 1885 and re-elected in 1888; and was elected to the to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.

Heiniger, Johannes

educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born Dec. 31, 1843, in Switzerland. He is the popular pastor of the First of the First Evangelical church of Jersey City, N. J.; and the editor of Zions Biene, a religious publication. He has filled pastorates in several large churches; has been president of the evangelical Lutheran Augsburg synod, and president of the Immanuel's synod of the evangelical Lutheran church of North America. He has also been engaged in educational work and has filled a chair in the Western university of St. Louis, Mo. war.

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter

soldier, was born Sept. 30, 1805, in Man- , in Manheim, Pa. He served with distinction with distinction through the Mexican He subsequently established Fort Yuma in California, and was successfully engaged in suppressing the Indians. He also served with distinction in the civil war, and was brevetted majorgeneral in the United States army. After the civil war he filled numerous public positions of honor; and has contributed valuable articles to curarticles to current literature.

Heister, Daniel

congressman. He succeeded his father in congress was a member of the eleventh congress .

Heister, Daniel

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born in Berks county, Berks county, Pa. He was colonel, and afterward brigadier-general of the militia, and in service.

In 1784 he was elected to the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania; and in 1787 was appointed a commissioner of the Connecticut land claims. He was a He was a member of the first, second, third and fourth congresses from Pennsylvania.

After this he removed to Hagerstown, Md.; and was elected from that state a member of the seventh and eighth congresses. He died March 8, 1804, in Washington.

Heister, John

congressman, was born April 9, 1746. He was a member of the tenth congress from Pennsylvania.

He died Oct. 15, 1821.

Heister, Joseph

soldier, statesman, was born Nov. 18, 1752, in Bern township, Pa. He was a member of the conof the convention which framed the constitution of constitution of 1776; served five years in the house and four in the senate of Pennsylvania . He was a member from Pennsylvania of the of the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth and ninth congresses. In 1807 he was appointed one appointed one of the two major-generals to command the Pennsylvania contingent, called for by the president. After this he retired he retired from public life, but in 1814 his old constituency of Berks again elected him to him to the fourteenth congress, and reelected him to the fifteenth and sixteenth consixteenth congresses. In 1817 he ran for governor unsuccessfully, but three years afterward was elected, and served in that office until office until 1823. He died June 10, 1832, in Reading.

Heister, William

farmer, congressman, was born in Bern township, Pa. He , Pa. He was elected a member of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses of Pennsylof Pennsylvania.

Heitfeld, Henry

farmer, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1859, in St. in St.

Louis, Mo. He removed to Seneca , Kan. , at the age of eleven age of eleven years, where he continued to reside till the year 1882, in which year he emigrated to the state of Washington; located in Idaho in 1883, where he has been engaged in farming and stock raising since. He elected state senator in 1894 and was elected United was re-elected in 1896; States senator, as a populist, Jan. 28, 1897; took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of term of service will expire March 3, 1903.

Heitman, F. B

author. He is the author of Historical Register of the of the United States Army, and Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army, both of which are valuable works of historical reference.

Heitman, John Franklin

educator, college president, was born Nov. 1, Nov. 1, 1857, in York, Pa. He accepted the call accepted the call to become president of Trinity college, Trinity college, North Carolina, and still occupies that occupies that position with the chair of political and political and social science.

Heitzman, Charles

physician, author, was born Oct. 2, 1836, in Hungary.

He is a physician who came to New York to New York city from Vienna in 1874, and is of promof prominence as a dermatologist. He is the au- He is the author of Chirurgische Pathologie und Therund Ther- Descriptive and Topographical apie; Anatomy of Man; and Microscopic Morphology of the Animal Body.

Helfenstein, John Conrad Al- Bert

clergyman, author, was born Feb. born Feb. 16, 1748, in Germany. In 1772 he took 1772 he took charge of a congregation in Germantown, in Germantown, and was one of the fathers of the Gerof the German reformed church in this country.

Several small volumes of his sermons his sermons have been published. He died May 17, May 17, 1790, in Germantown, Pa.

Helfinstine, David M

clergyman, college president, was born April 14, 1852, April 14, 1852, in Clark county, Ohio. He received his He received his education at the Parson's college of Faircollege of Fairfield, Iowa; and attended the McCormick Theological seminary of Chicago. He has Chicago. He has been state evangelist for the Christian the Christian church, and treasurer of the Church Ex- Church Extension society. He has attained success attained success as a clergyman; and is now the presithe president of Palmer college of La Grand, Iowa. Grand, Iowa.

Heller, Daniel D

lawyer, jurist, was born March 29, 1839, in Harrison in Harrison county, Ohio. He was elected judge of the judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit court of Incourt of Indiana, and received the re-election for a for a second term of six years.

Helm, Ben Hardin

soldier, state legislator, was born in 1830 in Elizabethtown, Ky. He was a member of the Kenof the Kentucky legislature in 1855-56, and commonwealth attorney for the third district of district of Kentucky from 1856 till 1858. In 1861 he In 1861 he joined the confederate army, and was and was made brigadier-general in 1862. He died He died Sept. 21, 1863, in Georgia.

Helm, John Larue

legislator, governor, was born July 4, 1802, in Hardin in Hardin county, Ky. He was made county attorcounty attorney of his county; in 1826 was elected to elected to the house of representatives of the state, of the state, and was a member of that body eleven years. He was elected state senator from 1844 to 1848, and from 1865 to 1869; and 1869; and resigned in 1867 to run for governor. He presided in the legislature seven years; legislature seven years; was elected lieutenant-governor in 1848; in 1848; and was governor from 1850 to 1852. In to 1852. In 1854 he was made president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. He died He died Sept. 8, 1867, in Elizabethtown, Ky.

Helman, Charles Edward

clergyman, lecturer, was born Jan. 24, 1862, Jan. 24, 1862, in Red Haw, Ohio. He graduated from graduated from the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, Berea, Ohio, from which institution he received the dereceived the degree of A. B. He has attained eminence as a successful clergyman of the methodthe methodist episcopal church; has filled several filled several pastorates in Ohio; and now fills a pasfills a pastorate in his church at Hailey, Idaho.

Helmick, William

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1817, in Jef- , in Jefferson county, Ohio. He was elected a was elected a prosecuting attorney; and in 1858 was 1858 was elected a representative from Ohio to the to the thirty-sixth congress.

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