is known as "Los tres primeros historiadores de Cuba " (Havana, 1876). Urrutia published also "Compendio de Memorias para servir a la historia de la Isla Fernandina de Cuba" (1791).
URTIAGA, Pedro (oor-tee-ah'-gah), Mexican
missionary, b. in Queretaro about 1650 ; d. in Porto
Rico about 1720. He entered the Order of St. Fran-
cis, and set out for Central America with four
other missionaries in 1694. He obtained good re-
sults among the wild Choles, Talamanca, and
Tologalpa tribes, whose language he soon learned,
and founded in the city of Guatemala the College
of Propaganda Fide. In 1703 he went to Spain,
and on his return in 1704 he was captured by a
British cruiser and landed on the coast of Portu-
gal. He returned on foot to the court of Madrid,
and was appointed bishop of Porto Rico, in which
city he died. Besides numerous religious works of
mei'it, which have been reprinted many times in
Mexico and Guatemala, he is author of " Diario del
viage de los cinco misioneros Franciscanos desde
Queretaro hasta Guatemala en 1694; y conquista
espiritual de los Indios Choles, Talamancos y To-
logalpos" (Mexico, 1702).
URUGUAY, Paulino José Soares e Souza (oo-roo-gah'-ee), Viscount de, Brazilian statesman, b. in Paris, France, in 1807; d. in Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, 15 July, 1866. He was educated at the Uni-
versity of Coimbra, studied law in the Academy of
Sao Paulo, Brazil, entered the magistracy in 1831,
was a member, and afterward president, of the pro-
vincial assembly of Rio Janeiro, after the promul-
gation of the additional act to the constitution.
He was a member of the Brazilian parliament in
1836-'49, entered the cabinet on 23 May, 1840, as
minister of justice, and held the same office in
1841-'3, prepared the law of 3 Dec, 1841, which
reformed the criminal procedure of the empire, was
secretary of foreign relations in 1843-'4, and be-
came a senator, 21 March, 1849. On 8 Oct. of the
same year he succeeded Marquis de Olinda as sec-
retary of foreign relations. He negotiated in 1851
the treaty of alliance between Uruguay, Entre-Rios,
and Brazil, and treaties of commerce with Uru-
guay, Peru, and the Argentine Republic, and re-
signing, 6 Sept., 1853, was appointed on 8 Sept. a
councillor of state, and created Viscount of Uru-
guay and a grandee of the first class, 2 Dec, 1854.
He went to Paris in the following year as minister
to settle the difficult question of the frontier be-
tween Brazil and French Guiana, returning in 1858
to Brazil. He wrote " Ensaios sobre o Dirieto ad-
ministrative " (2 vols., Rio Janeiro, 1862) and
" Estudos praticos sobre o administracao das pro-
vincias do Brazil " (2 vols., 1866).
USHER, Hezekiah, bookseller, b. in England
about 1615 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 14 March, 1676.
He was a citizen of Cambridge in 1639, and in 1646
established himself in Boston, became a select-man
of the town, and, as agent for the Society for propa-
gating the gospel, purchased in England in 1657
the press and types for printing Eliot's Indian
Bible. He was a founder of the Old South church
in 1669. — His son, Hezekiah, bookseller, b. in
Cambridge, Mass., 6 June, 1639 ; d. in Boston, Mass.,
11 July, 1679, was also engaged in business in Bos-
ton. During the excitement over witchcraft he
was arrested, but was suffered to make his escape
from the colony. His wife was Bridget, daughter
of John Lisle, the regicide, and widow of Leonard
Hoar. — Another son, John, lieutenant-governor of
New Hampshire, b. in Boston, Mass., 27 April,
1648 ; d. in Medford. Mass., 1 Sept., 1726, succeeded
his father in business, and became a member of
the council, a colonel of militia, and treasurer of
Massachusetts. His second wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Samuel Allen, whose claims to the
New Hampshire patent he supported. In March,
1677, he acted in London as agent for Massachu-
setts colony in the purchase of the title to the dis-
trict of Maine from Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He
was lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire from
1692 till 1697, and was reappointed in 1702.— John's
great-great-grandson, John Palmer, secretary of
the interior, b. in Brookfield, N. Y., 9 Jan., 1816;
d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 13 April, 1889, removed to
Indiana, studied and practised law, was elected to
the legislature, and was attorney-general of the
state. He was appointed 1st assistant secretary of
the interior on 20 March, 1862, and on the resigna-
tion of Caleb B. Smith, succeeded him as head of
the interior department on 8 Jan., 1863, holding
the office till 15 May, 1865, when he resigned, and
resumed the practice of his profession, becoming
consulting attorney for the Union Pacific railroad.
USSHER, Brandram Boilean, Canadian R.
E. bishop, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 6 Aug., 1845. He
was educated at Delgany college, Wicklow, and in
private schools. He early conceived a love for the
study of medicine, but his father encountered finan-
cial losses and his studies came to an abrupt close.
He was sent to New York, where he abandoned
business at the end of a year and began the study
of medicine in Washington and subsequently at
the University of Michigan. Ten years were passed
in Aurora, 111., where he practised his profession.
Hearing a sermon by Dwight L. Moody, he deter-
mined to study for the ministry, and on 9 June,
1874, he was ordained deacon in Christ church,
Chicago, by Bishop Cheney, of the Reformed Epis-
copal church. Two years later he became presby-
ter in Emmanuel church, Ottawa, Canada. In
Canada he has held pastorates in Toronto and
Montreal, where he has had charge of St. Bartholo-
mew's church since 1878. He and his congregation
withdrew from the jurisdiction of the Reformed
Episcopal church in the United States and united
their fortunes with the English branch of that
body, otherwise called the Reformed church of
England. The general synod in England elected
Dr. Ussher to the episcopate, but he declined. Two
years later he was re-elected, the Canadian synod
choosing him as their bishop. On 19 June, 1882,
he was consecrated in Trinity church, Southend,
by Bishop Gregg and seven presbyters. He re-
turned to Canada and assumed the duties of his
large diocese, which includes Newfoundland.
USSIEUX, Jacques Gerard des (oos-se-uh), French naval officer, b. in Eu, Normandy, in 1719; d. in Port Royal, Martinique, in 1781. He was a captain in the merchant service, and during the war of 1756 he commanded privateers against the English, and defended the fortifications at the entrance of St. Lawrence river. After the conclusion of peace he entered the service of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who had obtained from Louis XV. a grant of the Falkland islands, carried emigrants there in 1764, and governed the colony during Bougainville's absence. After the retrocession of the Falkland archipelago to Spain in 1766, he was sent to make an exploration of the coast of Patagonia, and visited also the island of Georgia. At the beginning of the war of 1778 he again entered the royal navy as 1st lieutenant, and was appointed harbor-master of Port Royal. He Kublished "Histoire de la colonie fondee aux iles lalouines par le capitaine de Bougainville, suivie d'une description de la cote de la Patagonie, et d'une relation d'un voyage a File Saint Pierre et a la Terre des Etats" (Dieppe, 1768).
