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HESSE-DAEMSTADT. 



HOOKER WOETHINGTON. 



years in the Legislature, several times as Speak- 

 er of the House. In 1848 ho was elected Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor ; and on the appointment of 

 Governor Crittenden as Attorney-General of 

 the United States, he took his place in the 

 gubernatorial chair. In 1854 he took charge 

 of the Louisville and Nashville Eailroad, on 

 the completion of which he retired to' private 

 life. During the secession excitement in the 

 winter of 1860-'61 he directed all his influence 

 in aid of peace and union. Although himself 

 believing in the doctrine of secession, as one 

 of the reserved rights of the States, he opposed 

 its exercise, as impolitic and unnecessary. He 

 bitterly opposed the policy of Mr. Lincoln's 

 administration, and was, if we recollect aright, 

 imprisoned by military commanders on one or 

 two occasions during the war. That his sym- 

 pathies were with the South throughout the 

 struggle there is no doubt. A son of his 

 entered the Confederate army, and, after win- 

 ning his way up to the rank of brigadier-gen- 

 eral, was eventually killed. After the war was 

 closed and Kentucky was relieved of martial 

 law, Governor Helm took an active and fore- 

 most part in reorganizing the Democratic party 

 in his State. In 1865 he was elected- State 

 Senator. At the meeting of the Democratic 

 State Convention, in the spring of 1867, the 

 position of candidate for Governor was unani- 

 mously tendered to him. He accepted the nom- 

 ination, and immediately commenced stumping 

 the State ; for, although certain of election, his 

 desire was to poll as large a vote as possible, so 

 that Kentucky should, as he expressed it, em- 

 phatically repudiate the negro-supremacy de- 

 signs of the radicals. At the election he re- 

 ceived 90,225 votes, against 33,939 cast for 

 Colonel S. M. Barnes, the radical candidate, 

 and 13,167 given to William B. Kinkhead, the 

 candidate of the Conservative Democrats, or 

 third party. During the last days of the can- 

 vass he was taken ill. There is no doubt that 

 he had over-exerted himself and brought on 

 the sickness which finally carried him off. On 

 the 3d of September, 1867, he was inaugurated 

 at his residence in Elizabethtown, being so ill 

 that he was unable to go to Frankfort, the 

 capital, for that purpose, and the retiring Gov- 

 ernor, Bramlette, came to Elizabethtown for the 

 express purpose of administering the oath of 

 office to him. He survived but five days after 

 his inauguration. 



HESSE-DAEMSTADT, a grand-duchy of 

 Germany. Grand-duke, Ludwig III., born 

 June 9, 1806, succeeded his father June 16, 

 148. Area, 2,955 square miles; population, 

 according to the census of 1864, 816,002. 

 Hesse-Darmstadt forms part of the North-Ger- 

 man Confederation, but only for the province 

 of Upper Hesse. According to a military con- 

 vention concluded with -Prussia, on April 7, 

 1867, all the troops of Hesse have been, since 

 October 1, 1867. incorporated with the Prus- 

 sian army, constituting the third division, of the 

 Eleventh Army Corps. They number 14,300 



field troops, and 4,960 reserves. On June 4th, 

 the Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution, 

 by 32 yeas against 15 nays, in favor of the entry 

 of the whole grand-duchy into the North-Ger- 

 man Confederacy, but the Government de- 

 clared that for the present it would be impos- 

 sible to carry out the resolution. 



HE WIT, NATHANIEL, D. D., a Congregation- 

 alist clergyman and author, born in New Lon- 

 don, Conn., August 28, 1788 ; died in Bridge- 

 port, Conn., February 3, 1867. Mr. Hewit 

 graduated from Yale College in 1808, and com- 

 menced a course of legal studies in the office 

 of Hon. Lyman Law, of New London, but soon 

 altered his plans. He then taught in the acad- 

 emy at Plainfield, Conn., and there studied 

 theology with Eev. Joel Benedict, D. D. He 

 was licensed to preach by the New London 

 County Association, September 24, 1811, and 

 supplied several congregations in Vermont and 

 elsewhere. After about six months in Andover 

 Theological Seminary, ic the class of 1814, he was 

 ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 

 Plattsburg, N. Y., July 5, 1815, and dismissed 

 October 2, 1817, being driven southward by 

 the severity of the climate. In January, 1818, 

 he was installed over the First Congregational 

 Church in Fairfield, Conn., as successor of Eev. 

 Dr. Heman Humphrey. While in this charge, 

 he became prominent as an able temperance 

 advocate, and in 1827 he labored extensively 

 in behalf of the American Temperance Society, 

 formed the year before in Boston. In Novem- 

 ber he was appointed to a three-years' mission 

 for this society, and was accordingly dismissed 

 from his pastorate December 18th. His success- 

 ful efforts during this time well entitled him 

 to be called the " Luther of the early temper- 

 ance reformation." December 1, 1830, he was 

 installed over the Second Congregational Church 

 in Bridgeport, Conn., a parish adjacent to his 

 former one. The summer of 1831 was spent in 

 England and Paris, on the errand of the tem- 

 perance reform. In 1833 Dr. Hewit (he re- 

 ceived the degree of D. D. from Amhorst in 

 1830) was prominent among the founders of 

 the East Windsor (now Hartford) Theological 

 Institute. In 1853 a difference in his society, 

 in regard to the course to be taken in procuring 

 assistance for the pastor, resulted in his with- 

 drawal, and the formation of an Old School 

 Presbyterian Church, over which he was in- 

 stalled October 31st. Here he continued preach- 

 ing until a colleague was settled, in 1862. 



HOOKEE, WOETHIXGTOK, M. D., an Ameri- 

 can physician, medical professor, and author, 

 born in Springfield, Mass., in 1805 ; died in 

 New Haven, Conn., November, 1 867. He grad- 

 uated from Yale College in the class of 1825, a 

 class which had an unusual number of eminent 

 men among its members. He studied medicine, 

 and graduated M. D., in the Yale Medical School 

 in 1827, and established himself in practice in 

 Norwich, Conn., when he soon became a lead- 

 ing physician. In 1852, on the retirement of the 

 late Dr. Eli Ives from, the chair of Theory and 



