HARTINGTON, SPENCER C. C. 



HUBERT, PAUL 0. 



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HARTINGTON, SPENCER COMPTON CAVEN- 

 DISH, Marquis of, the Secretary of State for 

 India in the new Liberal English Cabinet, was 

 born July 23, 1833, and is the eldest surviving 

 son of William, seventh Duke of Devonshire. 

 He graduated at Cambridge in 1854, and was 

 made LL. D. in 1862. In 1856 he was at- 

 tached to Earl Granville's special mission to 

 Russia. (See GRANVILLE.) In 1857 he was 

 returned to the House of Commons as one of 

 the members in the Liberal interest for North 

 Lancashire. In 1859, at the opening of the 

 new Parliament, he moved a vote of no confi- 

 dence in Lord's Derby's Government, and it 

 was carried by 323 votes against 310. He took 

 office as a Lord of the Admiralty in March, 

 1863 ; a month afterward became under-Sec- 

 retary for War; and, when Earl Russell recon- 

 structed his Cabinet in 1866, he received the 

 appointment of Secretary for War. He lost 

 his seat at the general election of 1868, but 

 was returned soon afterward for the Radnor 

 Boroughs, having first received the office of 

 Postmaster- General in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet. 

 In 1871 he succeeded Mr. Chichester Fortes- 

 cue as Secretary for Ireland, and remained in 

 that post until the dissolution of the Cabinet 

 in 1874. On Mr. Gladstone renouncing the 

 leadership of the Liberal party, shortly before 

 the assembling of the Parliament in 1875, he 

 was unanimously chosen by the members of 

 the opposition as their acknowledged leader in 

 the Commons. At the general election held 

 in 1880 he was returned both for the Radnor 

 Boroughs and Northeast Lancashire. He 

 chose to sit for the latter, and was reflected 

 on his being appointed Secretary of State for 

 India. In 1877, and again in 1879, he was 

 elected Lord Rector for Edinburgh Univer- 

 sity. Two of Lord Hartington's brothers, 

 Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish and Lord 

 Edward Cavendish, are likewise Liberal mem- 

 bers of the House of Commons, Lord Freder- 

 ick representing the northern division of West 

 Yorkshire, and Lord Edward North Derby- 

 shire. Lord Frederick was private secretary 

 to Earl Granville, when the latter was Lord- 

 President of the Council, 185 9-' 64 ; to Mr. 

 Gladstone, 1872-'73; a Lord of the Treasury, 

 1873-'74 ; and Financial Secretary to the Treas- 

 ry in 1880. 



HAVEN, GILBERT, was born near Boston, 

 September 19, 1821 ; died January 3, 1880, at 

 Maiden, Massachusetts. He graduated at the 

 Wesleyan University in 1846, and for two years 

 taught Greek and Latin in Amenia Seminary, 

 of which, in 1848, he became the principal. 

 In 1851 he joined the New England Conference 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was 

 stationed successively at Northampton, Wilbra- 

 ham, Westfield, Roxbury, and Cambridge, Mas- 

 sachusetts. In 1861 he was appointed Chaplain 

 of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, the first 

 commissioned chaplain after the breaking out 

 of the civil war. In 1862 he made a tour in 

 Europe and the East; and on his return was sta- 

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tioned for two years as pastor in Boston. His 

 earnest advocacy of the cause of the colored 

 people, before and during the war, led to his 

 appointment, in 1865, to the supervision of the 

 interests of destitute freedmen and whites in 

 the State of Mississippi. In 1867 he became 

 the editor of "Zion's Herald," Boston, and con- 

 tinued in this office until 1872, when he was 

 elected Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church. He was afterward assigned by the Gen- 

 eral Conference to the superintendence of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in the extreme 

 Southern States, his residence being Atlanta, 

 Georgia. He was a persistent advocate of Protes- 

 tant missions in Italy and among Spanish-speak- 

 ing peoples, and in 1872-73 visited Mexico in 

 this cause. He published " The Pilgrim's Wal- 

 let " in 1864, and u National Sermons ; Ser- 

 mons, Speeches, and Letters on Slavery and 

 its War," in 1869. A man of strong intel- 

 lect and will, he was also vigorous in his 

 prejudices, 



HUBERT, PAUL O., ex-Governor of Louis- 

 iana, was born at Bayou Goula, Iberville Par- 

 ish, Louisiana, in 1818. He graduated from 

 the Jesuit College, St. James Parish, in 1836, 

 and went to West Point, where he graduated in 

 1840, in the same class with Generals Hancock, 

 Thomas, Sherman, and other officers of distinc- 

 tion. He was Assistant Professor of Engineer- 

 ing at the Military Academy in 1841-'42. He 

 was employed in the construction of the West- 

 ern Passes of the mouth of the Mississippi un- 

 til 1845, when he resigned and was appointed 

 Chief Engineer of the State of Louisiana. This 

 office he held until the Mexican War, when he 

 was reappointed to the United States Army, 

 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the 

 Fourteenth Infantry. He was at the battle of 

 Contreras, at the storming of Chapultepec, and 

 at the taking of the city of Mexico. He was 

 brevetted colonel for gallant conduct at Moli- 

 no del Rey. In 1848 the army was disbanded, 

 and Colonel Hebert returned to his plantation 

 at Bayou Goula. In 1851 he went as com- 

 missioner to France. In 1852 he was a mem- 

 ber of the Convention which framed a new Con- 

 stitution for Louisiana. He was Governor of 

 the State from January 1, 1853, to January 1, 

 1856. One of the notable appointments of his 

 term was that of General W. T. Sherman as 

 President of the Louisiana Military Academy. 

 In 1861 he was appointed one of the five brig- 

 adier-generals in the Provisional Confederate 

 Army, the others being Robert E. Lee, Albert 

 Sidney Johnston, Beauregard, and Magruder. 

 He was in command of the trans-Mississippi 

 Department until relieved by General Magru- 

 der, when he took charge of the defenses at 

 Galveston. Very shortly after the surrender, 

 Governor Hebert applied for the removal of 

 his disabilities. He was then appointed on the 

 Board of State Engineers. In 1873 President 

 Grant appointed him Commissioner of Engi- 

 neers for the Mississippi Levee. He died in 

 New Orleans, August 29th. 



