HAVEN, JOSEPH. 



HOFFMANN, IIEINRJCU A. 395 



and Dallas ticket In 1845 ho was elected 



r of tin- city by n largo majority, and ro- 

 il in 1H4M. During his administration 

 a.s instrumental in the organization of tlio 

 d of Commissioners of Emigration and 

 tho ostaMislimont of u rogulur police-force. 

 His administration wns noted for economy, 

 huiiosty, and a careful interest in the wolfare 

 of t ho city. In 1850 he declined a renomination, 

 and tlio n.-\t year became President of tlio 

 Bank of North Anu-rioa, whore he served for 

 ars. In 1859 he was again a candidate 

 for mayor, but was dofoatod by Fernando 

 Wood. During the war he was thoroughly 

 loyal to the Govornmont, and urged the abo- 

 lition of slavery as a war measure. Though 

 extonsively engaged in business, he found time 

 during the few years after the war to protest 

 most earnestly against the corruption and 

 frauds which were rife in the city. In 1871 he 

 became President of the Committee of Seventy 

 the committee which overthrew the Tweed 

 dynasty. In the autumn of 1872 he was nom- 

 inated for mayor by that committee, and elect- 

 od l>y a small majority. He assumed office 

 January 1, 1873, and at his death had a month 

 more to serve. His third term was not a suc- 

 cess. . The age was too fust for him, and the 

 greater part of his time was spent in unseemly 

 wrangles with the aldermen and other city 

 officers; a number of his appointments were 

 injudicious, and an application was made to 

 the Governor for his removal from office, a 

 step which the Executive declined to take. 

 Still, there was no doubt in any quarter of his 

 honesty and integrity. In private life Mr. 

 Havemeyer was kindly and cordial, and, though 

 he often concealed his real benevolence under 

 some asperity of manner, he was known to be 

 a man of liberal and generous nature. His 

 death was very sudden, his last illness continu- 

 ing only for a few moments. 



HAVEN, Rev. JOSEPH, D. D., LL. D., a 

 Oongregationalist clergyman, professor, and 

 author, born in Dennis, on Cape Cbd, Mass., 

 January 4, 1816; died in Chicago, 111., May 23, 

 1874. His parents having removed to Am- 

 herst, Mass., during his childhood, he was edu- 

 cated in Amherst Academy and Ainherst Col- 

 lege, graduating from the latter in 1835. He 

 was for two years a teacher in the New York 

 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, studying 

 theology meanwhile in the Union Theological 

 Seminary. In 1837 he entored the Middle 

 Class in Andover Theological Seminary, and 

 graduated in 1839. He was ordained pastor 

 of the Congregational Church in Ashland, 

 Mass., in November of that year, and re- 

 mained there till 1846, when he was called to 

 tho Harvard Church, Brookline, Mass., and 

 during his four years there was also one of the 

 editors of the Congregationaliat. In I860 he 

 was invited to the chair of Mental and Moral 

 Philosophy in Amherst College, and com- 

 menced the duties of his professorship in Jan- 

 uary, 1851. "Here he taught the Scotch phi- 



losophy with a logical force and clearness 

 worthy of the system, and with a felicity of 

 illustration and a vein of humor that were 

 wholly his own." In August, 1858, be re- 

 i his profosHorchip and accepted that of 

 Systematic Theology in the Chicago Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, then just organized. Hi* labors 

 there were very great, but they were crowned 

 with extraordinary success. In 1870 he re- 

 signed on account of ill-health, made a tour in 

 Europe and the East, and on his return en- 

 gaged in preaching and lecturing upon ancient 

 and modern philosophy and upon the English 

 classics. In 1873 he became Acting-Professor 

 of Mental and Moral Philosophy in the Chicago 

 University, and was engaged in the duties of 

 that office up to tho time of his death. Dr. 

 Haven was all his life a hard student, and was 

 remarkable for the extent of his learning and 

 the thoroughness of his scholarship. He was 

 an admirable lecturer and an eloquent preacher. 

 His published works, aside from many single 

 sermons, occasional addresses, essays, and re- 

 views, were: ''Mental Philosophy, including 

 tho Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will" (1857); 

 " Moral Philosophy, including Theoretical and 

 Practical Ethics " (1859) ; " Studies in Philoso- 

 phy and Theology " (1869). A work on u Sys- 

 tematic Divinity," completed only a few weeks 

 before his death, has been since published. 

 Prof. Haven received the degree of D. D. from 

 Marietta College in 1859, from Amherst College 

 in 1862, and that of LL. D. from Kenyon Col- 

 lege. He was the first President of the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Chicago. 



HOFFMANN, HEINBICH AUGUST, called " of 

 Fallersleben," a German poet and philologist, 

 born at Fallersleben, in Mecklenburg, April 2, 

 1798 ; died at the seat of the Duke of Ratisbon 

 on the Rhine, January 21, 1874. His father 

 was a merchant and burgomaster of Fallers- 

 leben, and the son was destined for a clergy- 

 man, but, after passing through the Gymnasia 

 of Helmstadt and Brunswick, and the Univer- 

 sities of Gottingen and Bonn, studying theol- 

 ogy exclusively at the former, and at the latter 

 making the acquaintance of the brothers 

 Grimm, he determined to devote himself to 

 philology and German literature, under their 

 direction. In 1820 he published an edition of 

 the k ' Fragments of Otfried." Soon after, he 

 commenced a leisurely journey along the bonks 

 of the Rhine and through Holland, collecting 

 everywhere the poetry of the middle ages, 

 of which so many fragments were presonrd 

 among the peasants. In the course of this 

 journey he visited Berlin, and while there was 

 appointed librarian to the University of Breslau, 

 and soon afte- professor extraordinary, and 

 finally full professor in the same university. 

 For the next eighteen or nineteen years he ful- 

 filled his duties at the university with great 

 zeal, and published not only the middle age 

 songs and ballads he had collected, but many 

 of his own poems which were of such a char- 

 acter as to interest the common people. One 



