of the Great Basin” (1884); “On the Development of Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe” (1885); “Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District” (1885); and “The Volcanic Rocks of Salvador” (1886).
HAHN, Michael, politician, b. in Bavaria,
24 Nov., 1830; d. in Washington, D. C., 15 March,
1886. While he was an infant his parents
removed to New York, and a few years later to New
Orleans. He was graduated at the high-school of
that city, and in the law department of the
University of Louisiana in 1854. When twenty-two
years of age he was elected school-director, served
for several years, and at one time was president
of the board. He was antagonistic to the
Slidell wing of the Democratic party, opposed Mr.
Buchanan for president in 1856, was a strong
Douglas advocate, and a vehement anti-slavery
agitator. In 1860-'1 he was a member of the
committee that canvassed the state against secession,
and he personally exerted all his influence to
prevent disunion. Mr. Hahn's opponents charged
that in 1861, with all public, state, and parish officers,
he took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate
government; but the official records show that
he renewed his oath of office as notary, but omitted
the oath of allegiance, and no public notice was
taken of the omission. On the arrival of Admiral
Farragut's fleet in New Orleans, 25 April, 1862,
Mr. Hahn took the oath of allegiance to the United
States, and represented the 2d congressional
district of Louisiana in congress as a Republican,
from 17 Feb. to 3 March, 1863. At the end of his
term he returned to New Orleans, advocated the
reopening of the Federal courts, and bought and
edited the “New Orleans True Delta,” in which
he advocated emancipation. In March, 1864, he
was inaugurated governor of Louisiana. He
possessed the full confidence of Mr. Lincoln, who
wrote him a letter advising that the elective
franchise be extended to the negro race, and granting
him the additional powers of military governor.
In 1865 he was chosen U. S. senator, but did not
press his claim to his seat. In July, 1866, while
present at the Mechanics' institute in New Orleans
during the riot of that month, he was severely
wounded. Mr. Hahn became the editor of the
“New Orleans Republican” in 1867, and four
years later removed to his sugar-plantation in St.
Charles parish, where he built the village of
Hahnville. He was a member of the legislature from
1872 till 1876, and in 1879 was elected district
judge, which office he resigned in 1885, on his
election to congress, where he was the only Republican
member from his state.
HAIDT, John Valentine, artist and
evangelist, b. in Dantzic, Germany, 4 Oct., 1700; d.
in Bethlehem, Pa., 18 Jan., 1780. He was educated
at Berlin, where his father was court-jeweller. The
son studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and
London. When he was forty years of age he
united with the Moravian church and devoted
himself to painting portraits of its clergymen and
other pictures, the majority of which represented
scriptural incidents. In 1754 he emigrated to
America, was ordained a deacon of the church, and
began to preach through the middle colonies as an
evangelist, at the same time continuing to paint.
A gallery of his portraits and several of his other
pictures are still preserved at Bethlehem, Pa.
Among the latter the most remarkable is a
reduced copy of a large painting which he produced
in Germany, representing the first converts of the
various nations to which the Moravians brought
the gospel, coming to the throne of Christ's glory.
Twelve of Haidt's paintings, setting forth
incidents in the life of Jesus, which formerly adorned
the walls of the first church-edifice at Bethlehem,
were many years ago sold to a dealer, who realized
enormous profits from them.
HAIGHT, Benjamin I., clergvman, b. in New
York city, 16 Oct.. 1809; d. there, 21 Feb., 1879.
He was graduated at Columbia in 1828. and at
the General theological seminary of the Episcopal
church in 1831. He was ordained deacon the same
year, and priest in 1833. While in deacon's orders
he was elected (1831) rector of St. Peter's church,
New York, and in 1834 was called to St. Paul's,
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1837 he was elected rector
of All Saints', New York, and remained there until
1846. He was chosen professor of pastoral theology
in the General theological seminary in 1837, and
served the interests of the church in that chair
until 1855. In the latter year Dr. Haight was
elected an assistant minister of Trinity church,
New York, and during the absence of the rector in
1874 held the office of assistant rector. He was a
delegate from New York to the general conventions
of 1868, 1871, and 1874. In 1873 Dr. Haight was
elected bishop of Massachusetts, but declined on
account of feeble health. He served as secretary of
the Convention of New York for twenty years, and
was a member of the standing committee of the
diocese for ten years. He was elected a trustee of
Columbia college in 1843, and gave much time and
attention to the interests of that institution. Dr.
Haight was an excellent speaker and debater, and
exercised a wide influence in guiding the course of
ecclesiastical affairs under anomalous and trying
conditions. During the last two or three years of
his life he suffered from impaired health caused by
overtaxed energies. He published a few occasional
sermons and addresses. — His son, Charles C, is an
architect, and designed the new buildings of Colum-
bia college and the General theological seminary.
HAIGHT, Henry Huntley, lawyer, b. in
Rochester, N. Y., 20 May, 1825'; d. in San Fran-
cisco, Cal., 2 Sept., 1878. His father, Fletcher M.
Haight, was U. S. judge for the district of Califor-
nia. The son was graduated at Yale in 1844, stud-
ied law, and was admitted to the bar at St. Louis
in October, 1846. He afterward removed to Cali-
fornia, where he entered on the practice of his pro-
fession in 1850. He was appointed U. S. district
judge by President Lincoln, and in 1867 was elected
governor by the Democratic party, remaining in
office until 1871, when he was renominated, but
defeated by Newton Booth. He then returned to
the practice of law, and was a member-elect of
the State constitutional convention.
HAINES, Daniel, governor of New Jersey, b. in New York city, 6 Jan., 1801 ; d. in Hamburg, Sussex co., N. J., 26 Jan., 1877. He was graduated at Princeton in 1820, studied law. was admitted to the bar in 1823, and settled at Hamburg in 1824. In 1837 he entered public life as a member of the council, and was one of the board of canvassers who resisted the governor in giving certificates of election to the Whig candidates in the famous "broad-
seal" election. In 1843 he was elected governor, and while in office proclaimed the new constitution. His efforts during his one year's term of office left their impress on the common-schools and on the state normal-school, which had been projected by him. In 1847 he was again elected governor, and served for three years. He was afterward chosen a judge of the supreme court, where he served until
1861, and was during his tenure of office a member ex-officio of the court of error and appeals. From 1870 till 1876 he was a member of several judicial
