H£RRINQ8HAW'8 LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOQRAPHY.
Md haa
filled
Tuious other
iniblie
pMition*
of honor. ator, WH8 born parish. La. He
of engineers
in
si-ii-
March 12, 1820, in IlM-rville was made brevet lieutenant 184i>;
but resigned
in
ISMi.
two terma in the state senate of Louiaiana; and waa engineer of the state. He waa commiaBioned colonel of the third Louisiana infantry in tlu- oiitrderate army in 1861; and became brigadier-gen«ral in IMS. He ia a repreaentative m the old served
i
French or Creole |hoj)Ic of Louisiana; and active iu the management of his sugar (dantation. Bebert, Paul Octave, soldier, povernor. was
Xov. 12, 181H, in Louisiaiift. He si-rvt-d the conrt'ilcrate states army and attained the rank of brifjadier-peneral. In lS54-ri8 he was the fourteenth governor of the state of Louiaiana. He died April aO» 1880, in Louia-
in
iana.
Hebron, John 6.
L.,
1SH4.
lawyer, merchant, in
Vi.k-liurjr, "Nlis^.
was lit-
was educated at the Mis8iHBii>pi college and at the uniTeraity of Miaeifisippi. He ia a nun liiint of succeHHful lawyer, planter un Greenville, Miss.; and prominently identified with the buflineas and public affaira of that city. He has b«*<'n count ^• ntforncy ii.uiiuiui oi for Washington county. Miss.; the democratic executive coMiiiiittfe of Washington county. Miss.; trustee of the university of Mississippi: and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. He waa a meml>er of the Miaaieeippi stat** senate for Washington county in 1904-08. !
i
He
is
New York
Hecker, John Valentine, mauufaeturer. waa lH>m Dec. SJ5, 1848, in New York t iiy. He iKfarne pn-siilent of the (It-orge .
llc<-ker
company; and subsetjueully
an
f)rcsi<l<'nt
of the boiird of AIissiwsi|>|>i
levee commtaBioncrs, one of the most reaponaihte poaitions in the greni Yazoo delta. Hecbelman. Herman William, e<lucator, physician, Burgi-on, was )orn Auf?. 10, 1S48.
In 1870 he was en^i^'d in in Germany. the practice of medicine in Allegheny, Pa. In 1884-87 he was surgeon to the West Pennsylvania hospital. In 1880 he wh'* elected professor of anatomy at the Western Pennsylvania medical college.
Heck, Barbara, ministi-r. fouiidt r, w ;is born in Ireland. She was the wife of Paul Heck. When the rerolutionary war began they settled in northern New York; and founded the first Methodist society in that district. She waa known as the mother of American niPthodi'jm, She died in 1S04 in Canada, Hecker, Isaac Thomas, h r^'yman, author, waa born Dee. 18, 1819, in New York City (
ellcctt'tl
or-
g:inization of tiie (lour mills of New York into the Uecker J ones- Jewell milting oompany, of which he is president. Heckert, Charles Girven, i'ducator. college president, was bom on March 22, 18(i3, in
Northumberland, Pa. He waa managing e<|itor of the Lutheran World. In l8!t.'M".»o;l he was professor of Engliah and logic; and since 1003 baa been president of Wittenberg rolli
bom
born July
died Dee. 22, 1888, in
City.
Hebert, LouiSy soldier, engineer, Htate
He
He
Age.
119
<_'(•
of Sjtriiigfii'ld, Ohio.
Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Enieatua, missionary, author, in
Kngl.iiid.
bom March
was
Ilf
in
ciifj.igi'd
12, 1743, literary pur-
waa the author of Account of Uie History, .Manners and Customs of the ln>
suits.
lii>
diaii Nations who once Inhabited Poinsyl: vania and the Neighboring States. He died Jan. 21, 1823, in Bethlehem, Pa. Heckman, Charles Adam, soldier, was born
Dec.
3,
the elvil
1822, in
181M;,
in
I'a. He >civ.d in 1802 was made brigas. He died Jan. 14,
Ka^it»n.
war; ami
in
dier genenil of voluni<
t
Pliiladelphia,
t
I'a.
Heckman, George C., clergyman, college president, was bom Jan. 20, 1823, in Easton.
He has filled several pastorates in the presbyt<'rian ••hurches of Indiana and New
Pa.
York; and
in 1870-70 was president of Han* over college. Hcddoeus, John, educator, clergyman, poet, waa born .pril 15, 1847, (jiermany. He is a teacher of modem 1anguag«>s; and en* gagr'd Jit the military academy in Sing Sing, N.V, He is the author of Lord Lively.
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Beddings, Elijah, clergyman, bishop, was .June 7. 17S(i. in IMne Plains. N.V. .t the general conference in 824 he waa elected to the office of bishop of the methodi-f piMopiii clnircli. He died April 9, 1852, iMtrt:
1
.
in
I'oughkccpsij'.
N.V.
Hedemann, Christian J., business manager and diplomat of Honolnln. Hawaii, was bom May 25, lS."»iJ, in Ficn-bur};. Denmark, now Germany. He studied niarim' engineering in the royal p<dytecliiii( in-l itiitiDn of Cojienhagen. Iti 1878 he went to Hawaii as a sugar factory engineer. In 1S84 lie entered the service of the Honolulu lion Works com*
pany
a<<
assistant manafirer. and in 1800 manager. In 1009 be
apiM^iiited general
waa waS
He was a Roman
appointed coii-ni
Hehool Question;
Hedge, Frederic Henry, hiiraiian, hiliUographer. was born June 18:U. in Arlington, Mass. He wa.s educated at the high school of Bnngnr, Maine; and in 18.51 grail uated from Harvard coll-ge. He lias been atsiatant librarian at the Providence athenaeum of Rhode Island: and librarian ot Massachusetts historical society. tile In 1874-1001 he wa-i librarian of the public Hiiro rr of Lawrence, Mass.
catholic rlt rjr>Tnan : and in early life was one of tin noted Brook Farm community. Becoming a Roman catholie he foitnded the Order of the Paulists in 1888. In 1865 he established The Catholic World, of which ho remaini-d the editor till bia death. He wa^^ the author of Questlona of the Soul; Aspirations of NaI'liitcd "^lates; ture; Catholicity in the Catholics and Protestants Agreeing on the
and The
Church and the
nt
I)<
riinaTk.
