HALSTED, RICHARD F. 



HAYMERLE, BARON. 



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jury and said: "Gentlemen of the jury, I 

 can not express too many thanks for the man- 

 ner in which you have discharged your duty. 

 You have richly merited the thanks of your 

 countrymen, and I feel assured you will take 

 with you to your homes the approval of your 



consciences. With thanks, gentlemen of the 

 jury, I dismiss you." With this announce- 

 ment, the court was declared adjourned. 



Subsequently a motion for a new trial was 

 overruled, and the prisoner was sentenced to 

 be hanged on the following June 30, 1882. 



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HALSTED, RICHARD FREDERICK, died May 

 24, 1881, in Sing Sing, N. Y., in the fiftieth year 

 of his age, having been ill during ten years, for 

 five of which he was almost totally blind. At 

 the outbreak of the civil war he was first lieu- 

 tenant in the sixth company of the Seventh 

 Regiment, New York State National Guard. 

 He accompanied that regiment on its first 

 march to Washington. He entered the United 

 States service, June 14, 1861, as major of the 

 Fortieth Regiment, New York Volunteers. 

 On April 26, 1863, he was appointed aide-de- 

 camp to General Sedgwick, and was with the 

 Army of the Potomac until its disbandraent, 

 when he went to the Department of Texas. 

 He served with Major-Generals John Sedgwick 

 and II. G. Wright as staff-officer, and under 

 division commanders Heintzelman, C. S. Ham- 

 ilton, and Kearney. He was also in the Sixth 

 Corps, and temporarily in the Second and 

 Ninth, General Sedgwick having been assigned 

 to these before taking command of the Sixth 

 Corps. With this corps he made the Shenan- 

 doah Valley campaign, and was engaged at Wil- 

 liamsburg, Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, and Fred- 

 ericksburg (the second battle where the Sixth 

 Corps fought alone, the balance of the army 

 being at Chancellorsville), Marye's Heights, 

 Salem Heights, Gettysburg, Rappahannock 

 Station, the Wilderness, and the following days, 

 until the death of Sedgwick, May 19th, when 

 he came home with his remains. Returning 

 to his command June 1st, he was at Cold 

 Harbor, in two engagements at Winchester, 

 Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, besides many skir- 

 mishes, the movement against Early at Wash- 

 ington, and the crossing of the Shenandoah by 

 the Sixth Corps. He was brevetted major and 

 lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, and resigned 

 July 1, 1866. 



HAVEN, ERASTCS OTIS, horn in Boston, 

 November 1, 1820; died in Salem, Oregon, 

 August 2, 1881. He graduated from the Wes- 

 leyan University in 1842, and was for some 

 years an instructor at Sudbury, Massachusetts. 

 In 1846 he was appointed Principal of the 

 Amenia Seminary, New York, and held this 

 position during two years. In 1848 he entered 

 on the itinerant ministry of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, and was first stationed in 

 New York, where he was a pastor until 1853, 

 when he became a Professor of Greek and Lat- 

 in in the University of Michigan. In the fol- 

 lowing year he was appointed Professor of the 

 English Language, Literature, and History in 



the same institution. From 1856 to 1863 he 

 was editor of "Zion's Herald," a journal pub- 

 lished in Boston. In 1862 he was elected a 

 member of the Massachusetts Senate, where 

 he served two years, and was specially promi- 

 nent as an advocate of educational interests. 

 He was also a member of the State Board of 

 Education. In 1863 he became President of 

 the University of Michigan, and held that posi- 

 tion until 1869. Under his administration the 

 university doubled in numbers and resources, 

 becoming one of the largest in the country. 

 Bishop Haven was next appointed President 

 of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, 

 Illinois, and continued to hold that office three 

 years, giving entire satisfaction. From 1872 

 to 1874 he was Corresponding Secretary of the 

 Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church. In 1874 he was elected Chancellor of 

 the Syracuse University, and in 1880 was made 

 bishop. In 1881 he was assigned to San Fran- 

 cisco and the Pacific coast generally. He was 

 a member of five general conferences, and the 

 author of " The Young Man Advised" (1855), 

 " Pillars of Truth " (1860), and " Rhetoric, a 

 Text-Book for Schools " (1869). 



HAYMERLE, HEINRICII CARL, BARON, 

 Prime Minister of Austria, died at Vienna, 

 October 10th. He was born at Vienna in 

 December, 1828, of German parents who had 

 been living for some time in Bohemia. After 

 studying in the Vienna School for the Orien- 

 tal Languages, he found a position as assistant 

 interpreter to the Austrian embassy at Con- 

 stantinople in 1850. During the Crimean War 

 he was sent on a mission to Omer Pasha for 

 securing protection to Austrian subjects. In 

 1857 he was sent to Athens as secretary of 

 legation, and acted there for a time as charge 

 d'affaires. He was secretary of legation at 

 Dresden and at Frankfort. After the war of 

 1864 he was intrusted with a mission to Copen- 

 hagen for the object of re-establishing friendly 

 relations with the Danish Government. Re- 

 turning to Frankfort in 1866, he took part in 

 the negotiations connected with the Treaty of 

 Prague. lie was then transferred to Berlin, 

 where he was charge d'affaires until 1868. 

 He was ennobled in 1867. Called to the Min- 

 istry for Foreign Affairs by Count Benst, he 

 again went to Constantinople and from there 

 to Athens as charge d'affaires. lie was ap- 

 pointed Embassador to Rome in 1877. At the 

 Berlin Conference in 1868 he acted as the third 

 Austrian delegate. When Count Andrassy re- 



