Helms, Eugene W – Hendel, William
Helms, Eugene W
lawyer, jurist, was born April 2, 1859, in Salem, Wis.
He received his education in the common schools and graduated from the law school of the state university of Wisconsin.
In 1893-96 he was district attorney of St. of St. Croix county, Wis.; and from Jan. he commenced serving as circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit of Wisconsin.
Helms, William
soldier, congressman. He was an officer in the revolution- . He was an officer in the revolutionary army; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey, from 1801 to 1811.
He died in Tennessee.
HELMUTH, JUSTUS CHRISTIAN HENRY, clergyman, author, was born May 16, 1745, in Germany. He was a Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1769, and was pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran church in Philadelphia in 1779-1820 , and for eighteen years professor of languages in the university of Pennsylvania.
He was the author of Taufe und heilige Schrift; Unterhalten mit Gott; Gott; and Geistliche Lieder. He died Feb. 5, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Helmuth, William Tod
surgeon, author, was born in 1833, in Pennsylvania. , was born in 1833, in Pennsylvania.
He is a surgeon of New York city; and the author of Treatise on Diphtheria; Medical cal Pomposity; System of Surgery; of a Surgeon; Suprapubic Lithotomy; and With the Pousse Café, postverses.
Helper, Hinton Rowan
author, was born Dec. 27, 1829, near Mocksville, N. C.
He is a southern writer long resident in New York city; and the author of The Impending Crisis of the South, a 'once famous work, which appeared shortly before the fore the opening of the civil war; No- ; The Negroes in Negroland; The Land of Land of Gold; Oddments of Andean Diplomacy; and the Three Americas Railway.
Hembel, William
physician, was born Sept. 24, 1764, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Sept. 24, 1764, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He practiced gratuitously for many years among the poor of Philadelphia, and was noted for benevolence. He was president of the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1840 till 1849. He died June 19, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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.
Hemenway, Stacy
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 13, 1836, in La Porte county, Ind. He graduated from the medical department of the Lind university, now known as the Chicago Medical university. During the civil war he was assistant surgeon of the ninth cavalry Illinois volunteers; then became surgeon of the forty-first United States colored troops; subsequently and was acting assistant surgeon in the United States army.
During 1871-74 he was resident physician to the hospital for the insane of Washington territory; was a charter member of the Washington State Medical society; and is prominently identified with various leading medical bodies in America.
Hemingway, Wilson Edwin
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 4, 1854, near , 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
Hempel, Charles Julius
physician, author, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in , author, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in Prussia.
He was a physician of Grand Rapids , Mich., who came to America from Prussia in 1835. He was the author of Christendom and Civilization; System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; The Science of Homœopathy; Homœopathic Theory and Practice in Surgical Diseases (with J.
Beakley); True Organization of the New Church; and Life of Christ (in German).
He died Sept. 25, 1879, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Hemphill, John
United States senator. He was a senator in congress from . 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, Edward
lawyer, congressman, was born June 3, 1780, in New London, Conn. In 1806 he was appointed deputy attorney-general for the district of St.
Louis and St. Charles, and in 1809 attorney-general for the territory of Upper Louisiana , which office he held until 1811.
He was the first delegate to congress from the western side of the Mississippi river, representing Missouri territory from 1811 to 1814.
After his service in congress he went upon several expeditions against the Indians; was elected to the territorial assembly , and chosen speaker. He died Aug. 10 Aug. 10, 1817.
Hempstead, Gay
lawyer, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1847, in Little , 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, Junius L
poet, was born Nov. 14, 1842, in Dubuque, Iowa. He is the son of the late Governor Hempstead. His educattion began in the public schools, and then took a course in St. Charles college, Mo. Always studious and fond of art, music and literature, when a youth he secured the blue ribbon two successive seasons at the St.
Louis fair, and also two premium prizes of seventy-five and one hundred dollars for the best original statues in marble.
He won the first prize offered for the best original statuette in marble by Dr. Van Zandt. It was carved from a block of Vermont marble. The next year the prize was again taken by him, therefore Dr.
Van Zandt offered to send him to Paris and Italy, defraying all expenses for six years, but the offer was declined, however, and he was sent to a Virginia college. He began his business career with bookkeeping, but for years past, most of his time has been given over to literature.
He is represented as a poet in Golden Thoughts of American Writers; Poets of America; and has published one volume of poems, Parnassian Niches.
Hempstead, Stephen
governor.
He was governor of Iowa from 1850 to was governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854.
He died Feb. 16, 1883.
Hemsley, William
congressman.
He was a delegate from Maryland to the 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 , 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, , 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.
Hendee, Mrs
heroine, was born in 1754. When the Indians burned Royalton, Vt., in 1776, her husband, Joshua Hendee, was absent in a Vermont regiment, and she was at work in an adjacent field. The Indians entered her house, seized her children, and carried them across White river, where it was a hundred yards wide and too deep for fording. Mrs. Hendee dashed into the river, swam and waded through, and, and, entering the camp, regardless of the that were flourished about her head, demanded her children's release, and persevered until her request was granted . She carried them across the stream, landed them in safety on the other bank, and, returning three times in succession , procured the release of fifteen children belonging to her neighbors. On her final return to the camp the Indians were so struck with her courage that one of them declared that so brave a squaw deserved to be carried across the stream, and taking her on his back swam with her to the place where the rescued children were awaiting her return. She was twenty-two years old when she performed this feat, and in 1818 she was living in Sharon, Vt., with her third husband, whose name was Mosher. It is thought that she removed to one of the western states about 1820.
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.