OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HEILMAN HICKS.) 



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*' The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition " (1870); 

 " The Ways of the Spirit, and other Essays " (1877) ; 

 *' Atheism in Philosophy, and other Essays" (1884); 

 and " Hours with German Classics" (1886). 



Heilman, William, manufacturer, born in Albig, 

 Rhein-Hessen. Germany, Oct. 11, 1824; died in 

 Evansville, liid., Sept. 22, 1890. fie came to the 

 United States in 1843, and, settling in Evansville, 

 learned the machinist's trade. In 1847 he began 

 building a large machine shop and foundry, which he 

 completed and operated till his death. He was also 

 president of a company owning: a cotton mill in 

 which 25,000 yards ot sheeting and drills were manu- 

 factured daily. . He served for six years in the city 

 council ; was elected to the State House of Representa- 

 tives in 1870, and to the State Senate in 1876 ; was 

 & delegate to the Republican National Convention in 

 1876 ; Vas elected to Congress from the 1st Indiana 

 District as a Republican in 1878 and 1880 ; and was 

 defeated lor a third term in 1882. While in Congress 

 lie served on the committees on t}ie District of Colum- 

 bia, expenditures in the Treasury Department, and on 

 the improvement of the Mississippi nver. 



Heiss, Michael, clergyman, born in Pfahldorf, Bava- 

 ria, April 12, 1818: died in La Crosse, Wis., March 

 26, 1890. He was graduated at the Gymnasium of 

 Newburg in 1835; took a theological course in the 

 University, of Munich ; entered the Roman Catholic 

 seminary in Eichstadt ; and was ordained a priest 

 Oct. 18, 1840. In 1843 he came to the United States 

 .and was appointed pastor of a church in Covingtpn, 

 Ky. ; and in the following year, on the consecration 

 of Dr. John Martin Henni as first Bishop of Mil- 

 waukee, he removed to that city and became the 

 bishop's secretary. In 1846 he founded St. Mary's 

 hurch ; then spent two years in Europe ; was chosen 

 president of the Salesianum on his return ; and on the 

 division of the diocese of Milwaukee was appointed 

 first bishop of the new diocese of La Crosse, and was 

 consecrated Sept. 6, 1868. Under his administration 

 the Franciscan Sisters were established in La Crosse, 

 the Christian Brothers opened St. John's College in 

 Prairie du Chien, and the School Sisters of Notre 

 Dame had several flourishing schools in various parts 

 of the State. By 1878 his diocese comprised 36 

 churches with resident pastors, 50 others that were 

 visited regularly, 40 priests, and a Roman Catholic 

 population of 45,000. On March 14, 1880, he was ap- 

 pointed Bishop of Adrianople and Coadjutor of Mil- 

 waukee, and on April 23, 1882, received the pallium 

 as second Archbishop of Milwaukee. 



Hiestand, John A., journalist, born in East Donegal 

 Township, Lancaster County, Pa., Oct. 2, 1824; died 

 in Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 13, 1890. He was brought up 

 on a farm ; received a collegiate education ; studied 

 law ; and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 1852, 

 1853, and 1856 he was elected to the State Legislature 

 as a Whig; and in 1858 he relinquished the practice 

 of law and became editor and proprietor of the Lan- 

 caster " Examiner," with which he remained till 1889, 

 when he retired from business. From 1871 till 1879 

 he was naval officer at the port of Philadelphia, and 

 in 18S4 and 1886 he was elected to Congress from the 

 9th Pennsylvania District as a Republican. He served 

 on the committees on War Claims, Printing, and the 

 Government Printing Office. 



Henderson, Peter, horticulturist, born in Path head, 

 near Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25, 1823; died in 

 Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 17, 1890. He received a vil- 

 lage-school education, was apprenticed to a gardener 

 when fifteen years old, secured two of the medals 

 ottered by the" Botanical Society of Edinburgh for the 

 best herbarium of native and exotic plants, and re- 

 moved to New York city in 1840. After working in 

 nurseries in Astoria, Long Island, and in Pittsburg, 

 Pa., he established himself as a market _ gardener in 

 Jersey City in 1847, and remained there till his death. 

 For many years he confined himself to his original 

 business, and then gradually engaged in ornamental 

 gardening, floriculture, and seed growing, becoming 

 one of the foremost seedsmen in the country. He was 



an acknowledged authority in his specialties, and gave 

 annual exhibitions of flowers and plants in His New 

 York store. He was author of " Gardening for 

 Profit" (New York, 1866; 3d edition, 1886): "Prac- 

 tical Floriculture " (1868) ; " Gardening for Pleasure " 

 (1875) ; " Handbook of Plants " (1881 ; revised edition, 

 1889) ; " Garden and Farm Topics," (1884) ; and " How 

 the Farm pays" (1884). 



Hewitt, John Hill, balladist, born in New York city, 

 July 11, 1801 ; died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7, 1890. 

 He was educated at the United States Military Acad- 

 emy, was one of the band of cadets who attempted to 

 blow lap the place, resigned from the army, and spent 

 some time in the South studying law, teaching music, 

 and writing for the press. In 1825 he settled in Balti- 

 more. While he was engaged there in literary work, 

 he and Edgar Allen Poe were rival contestants for 

 prizes offered by a local paper for the best story and 

 the best poem. Both writers tried for each prize. 

 Poe won the story prize with " A Manuscript found 

 in a Bottle," and Hewitt the poem prize with " The 

 Song of the Wind." Each writer believed he should 

 have received both prizes, and at their first meeting 

 on the street they engaged in a knock-down fight. 

 Besides his ballads, of which " The Minstrel's Re- 

 turn from the War" is the best known, Mr. Hewitt 

 wrote the comedy of " The Governess," which was 

 successfully produced, and the play " Washington ; or 

 One Hundred Years " ; composed the oratorio " Jeph- 

 tha's Daughter" ; and published a collection of per- 

 sonal reminiscences, " Shadows on the Wall " (1877). 



Hicks, Thomas, an American portrait and genre 

 painter, born in Newtown, Bucks County, Pa., Oct. 

 18, 1823; died at Trenton Falls, N. ., Oct. 8, 1890. 

 He was one of the few representatives of what may 

 be termed the second period 

 of American art, a period 

 dominated by five portrait and 

 landscape painters Harding, 

 Weir, Cole, Doughtv, and 

 Durand. Of this period, which 

 dates from the foundation of 

 the National Academy of De- 

 sign, Harding was a leader in 

 Boston and Henry Inman in 

 New York, where the latter 

 was soon followed by Elliott 

 Baker, Page, Le Clear, Hunt- 

 ington, and Hicks, the con- 

 temporaries of Healy, Ames, ^S(^fc s \ 

 Hunt, and Staigg, of Boston, 

 and an older artist, Sully, of 



Philadelphia. Of the New York group, Mr. Daniel 

 Huntington is now the only survivor. It was In 

 early youth, at a time when the profession of art 

 offered few inducements in this country, that Mr. 

 Hicks began his studies at the Pennsylvania Acade- 

 my of Design, continuing them at the National 

 Academy in New York. Although he painted some 

 landscapes, Mr. Hicks occupied himself for the most 

 part with the figure, and his first important picture, 

 exhibited in 1841, represented " The Death of Abel." 

 In his earlier years the Diisseldorf Academy was the 

 goal of American art students; but on his first visit 

 to Europe, where he spent the years between 1845 and 

 1849, he studied in Paris under Couture in addition to 

 the usual visit to Italy. Mr. Hicks, therefore, should 

 share with William M. Hunt the honor of leading the 

 American art movement toward Paris. In the course 

 of his four years abroad he studied in London and 

 Florence as well as in Paris and Rome, and in the lat- 

 ter city he painted several pictures of some importance, 

 among them a half-length figure entitled " Italia." 

 Such a prolonged period of foreign study was excep- 

 tional at the time, and undoubtedly did much to aid 

 professional success. On resuming the active practice 

 of his profession in New York, Mr. Hicks soon earned 

 a high rank in popular estimation as a portrait painter. 

 Amonsr his sitters, who have included many of the 

 most distinguished Americans of his lifetime, have 

 been Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, Longfel- 



