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HAILANDIERE


HAINES


1846. When his father was appointed U.S. district judge in 1850, by President Filhnore, Henry went with him to California and practised law in San Francisco, lb30-62. President Lincoln appointed him U.S. district judge in 1862, and he resigned in 1867 to accept the governorship of the state to which he was elected by the Democratic party. He served as governor, 1867-71, and in the elec- tion of 1870 was defeated by Newton Booth. He oppo.se i tiie granting of i-ailroad subsidies, sus- tained the position of President Johnson, ob- jected to the passage of the 15th amendment to the constitution of the United States, and op- posed the immigration of Chinese into California. He was elected a delegate to the state constitu- tional convention of 1878. He died in San Fran- cisco, Cal., Sept. 2, 1878.

HAILANDIERE, Celestine Rene Lawrence Quymeyer de la, R.C. bishop, was born in Fri- andin near Cambourg (Brittany) France, May 2, 1798. He was ordained priest at Paris, France, May 28, 1825, by Archbishop Hyacinth Ludovicus Queliii of Paris. He was appointed coadjutor to Bisliop Brute of Vincennes, Ind., U.S.A., with the title of Bisliop of Axierne, May 13, 1839, at Sacred Heart chapel, Paris. Bishop BrutS died June 26, 1893. before Father Hailandiere was conse- crated and on Aug. 18, 1839, he was con.secrated Bishop of Vincennes. He resigned his bishopric July 16, 1847, and returned to liis birthplace in France, where lie died May 1, 1882.

HAINER, Engene Jeremiah, representative, was born at Fvmfkirchen, Hungary, Aug. 16, 1851. He came to the United States with liis parents in 1854, and in 1855 they removed to the Hungarian colony at New Buda, Iowa, where they continvied to reside, with the exception of the years 1857- 60, when thej' lived in Columbia, Mo. He attended Garden Grove seminary and Iowa agri- cultural college and was graduated from the law department, Simpson Centenarj^ college, Indian- ola, Iowa, in 1876. He engaged in the practice of law in Aurora, Neb. He was a Republican repre- sentative from Nebraska in the 53d and 54th con- gresses, 1893-97, and was the defeated candidate for the 55th congress in 1896. While in congress he was a member of the committee on appropria- tions and was chairman of the committee on for- tifications and sea coast defences. During this period the congressional policy which had ob- tained since the civil war of making practically no provision for these defences was changed and adequate modern sea coast defences were pro- vided. He led the successful fight in the 54th congress against sectarian appropriations, was chairman of the Republican state central com- mittee of Nebraska in its successful campaign in 1895, and was re-elected chairman in 1899, but for business reasons declined.


HAINES, Daniel, governor of New Jersey was born in New York city, Jan. 6, 1801; son of Elias Haines and grandson of Stephen Haines of Revolutionary fame, a prisoner of war confined in the " Old Sugar House," New York. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1820, A.M., 1823, and was a lawyer in Hamburg, N.J., 1824-77. He was a member of the state council, 1837; governor of the state, 1843-44, 1847-51, and judge of the state supreme court, and court of errors and appeals, 1852-61. He was a member of state boundary commissions, 1870- 76; a cominissioner to the national prison reform association at Cincimiati, Ohio, 1870; a delegate to London, England, in 1872, to organize an inter- national congress of prison discipline, and a trus- tee of the College of New Jersey, 1845-48, and 1853-77. He was the founder of the state normal school, 1843; defended the Goodyear patents in association with Daniel Webster; was presiding judge of the Newark circuit; a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church and a member of the com- mittee on reunion of the north and south branches of that denomination; a prominent member of the American Bible society; a member of the committee to select a site for the state lunatic asylum at Trenton, N. J., 1845, and a member of the first board of managers; a manager of the Home for disabled soldiers; a trustee of the state reform scliool; and vice-president of the National prison reform association. His son, Capt. Thomas Ryerson, 1838-62, College of New Jersey, 1857 A.M., 1860; captain, U.S. volunteers, 1861-62, was killed in battle at Harrisonburg, Va.; another son, the Rev. Alanson Austin, born in 1830, was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.M., 1857; from Princeton theological seminary, 1858; was chaplain 15th N.J. volunteers, 1861-65, being present at thirty-six battles and skinnishes; was engineer of the Palestine exploring expedition, 1873-74; and the author of " History of the 15th New Jer.sey volunteers" (1883). Governor Haines died in Hamburg, N.J., Jan. 26, 1877.

HAINES, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., Oct. 26, 1827. He was grad- uated at the U.S. military academy in 1849, served at Fort Monroe as brevet 2d lieutenant, 1st U.S. artillery; was appointed assistant professor of inathematics at the U.S. military academy; was acting assistant adjutant-ereneral in the Seminole war, and was promoted lieutenant, and in 1861 was made assistant adjutant-general in the department of Virginia, with the rank of captain. He was chief commissary of the depart- ment of Missouri, 1861-68; purchasing and super vising commissary in departments in the northwest, 1862-65; was piomoteu major, and after the close of the war was commissary for the central territory west of the Mississippi river.