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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Bank, the Warnsutta Mills Company, and the 

 New Bedford and Taunton Railroad. From 

 1843 to 1851 he represented his district in Con- 

 gress. He was twice married, but had no chil- 

 dren. He adopted as his daughter Cornelia 

 Grinnell, a niece, who became the second wife 

 of Nathaniel P. Willis. 



Hendrieks, Thomas 1., Vice-President of the 

 United States, died Nov. 25, 1885. (For sketch 

 and portrait, see Annual Cyclopaedia for 1884.) 



Hotehkiss, Benjamin B., an American invent- 

 or, born in Connecticut in 1830; died in 

 Paris, France, Feb. 14, 1885. He had very 

 few early advantages, served in Sharpe's rifle- 

 factory as a machinist, and later went into the 

 employ of Col. Samuel Colt, whom he assisted 

 in perfecting the revolving pistol. About 1860 

 he became a resident in New York city, and 

 during the draft-riots he was placed in charge 

 of the arsenal. His first invention was what 

 is known as the Hotehkiss magazine-gun, which 

 was subsequently adopted by the United States 

 Government for troops in the West, and later 

 for the naval service. He next applied the Colt 

 principle to breech-loaders, and his system was 

 largely adopted by gun-manufacturers in Eu- 

 rope as well as in America. Mr. Hotehkiss was 

 also the inventor of the machine-gun that is 

 especially designed for use in the rigging of 

 vessels. The Hotehkiss guns were adopted by 

 Russia, France, and other European Govern- 

 ments. Mr. Hotehkiss made also various im- 

 provements in heavy ordnance and projectiles. 

 Fifteen years ago he went to Paris and founded 

 a gun-factory. At the time of his death he 

 was about to establish a factory in England, 

 the British Government having adopted some 

 of his improvements in heavy ordnance. 



Huntington, William Henry, an American collect- 

 or, born in Norwich, Conn., May 30, 1820 ; died 

 in Paris, Oct. 1, 1885. He went to Europe in 

 1858, and for twenty years was the correspond- 

 ent of the " New York Tribune " and the friend 

 and associate of Louis Blanc, M. Clemenceau, 

 and other prominent Frenchmen. Without 

 ceasing to be an American, he was more than 

 half a Frenchman at heart. He gave away a 

 large part of his income. He voluntarily re- 

 mained in Paris during the sieges of ISTO-'Tl, 

 that he might in some measure relieve the poor 

 of his own quarter. Clemenceau, who was at 

 the time Mayor of Montmartre, where Hunting- 

 ton lived, writes : " During the long months of 

 the siege, not a week passed that Huntington 

 did not visit the mayor with his hands full of 

 gold and bank-notes, to be used in the best in- 

 terests of France and of the republic. The 

 sole condition of his gifts was that his name 

 should be kept absolutely secret. It is only to- 

 day that we are permitted to disclose the serv- 

 ices he rendered to the city he loved so ardent- 

 ly." Huntington's large and valuable collec- 

 tion of miniatures, bronzes, and engravings of 

 Franklin, Lafayette, and Washington, was be- 

 queathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 New York, where it may now be seen. It is 



the largest collection of its kind in the world, 

 and represents the result of a quarter of a cent- 

 ury's search for portraits of every description 

 of those three illustrious men. 



Jackson. Helen, an American author, born in 

 Amherst, Mass, Oct. 18, 1831; died in San 

 Francisco, Cal., Aug. 12, 1885. She was a 

 daughter of N. W. Fiske, Professor of Greek 

 in Amherst College, and received her educa- 

 tion at the female seminary in Ipswich, Mass., 

 and at the school of the Rev. J. S. C. Abbott, 

 in New York city. She married Major Ed ward 

 B. Hunt, who was killed in October, 1863, 

 while experimenting with submarine appara- 

 tus at Brooklyn Navy- Yard. Their only child 

 was also taken away, within a year or two. 

 Mrs. Hunt resided for several years at New- 

 port, R. I., and, after her husband's death, be- 

 gan to write for periodicals under the pen-name 

 of " H. H." In 1876 she married William S. 

 Jackson, a banker of Denver, Col. President 

 Arthur appointed her a special commissioner 

 to examine into the condition of the mission 

 Indians of California, and some of her latest 

 literary work was a series of articles on south- 

 ern California, Oregon, and Washington Ter- 

 ritory. Her writings include "Verses," "Bits 

 of Talk," "Bits of Travel," " Nelly's Silver 

 Mine," "Letters from a Cat," " Mammy Tittle- 

 back and her Family," and " Ramona." The 

 " Saxe Holm " stories, about which so much 

 factitious interest was created by ingenious ad- 

 vertising, have been attributed to her. For 

 a commonplace writer she enjoyed a pretty 

 wide, though probably ephemeral, reputation. 



Kingsley, William C., an American contractor, 

 born in Franklin County, N. Y., in 1833 ; died 

 in Brooklyn, Feb. 21, 1885. His early years 

 were spent on a farm, and for a time he taught 

 school. He then took service in work con- 

 nected with railroads, tunnels, etc., and super- 

 intended railroad work in Illinois and Wiscon- 

 sin. In 1858 he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 where, in company with A. S. Keeney, he 

 made a contract to build the Brooklyn Water- 

 W r orks. He became convinced of the feasi- 

 bility of a bridge trom Brooklyn to New York 

 as early as 1865, and succeeded in interesting 

 wealthy men in the scheme. The New York 

 Bridge Company was organized in 1867, with 

 a nominal capital of $5,000,000, of which 

 Kingsley and Keeney took $110,000, and after- 

 ward held $300,000. Mr. Kingsley was made 

 superintendent of the work, and was paid 1 

 per cent, on the cost. In 1875 the bridge 

 was placed in charge of a board of trustees, of 

 whom Mr. Kingsley was one during the re- 

 mainder of his life. In 1882 he succeeded 

 Henry C. Murphy as president of the board, 

 and saw the bridge completed and formally 

 opened, May 24, 1883. Mr. Kingsley amasse 

 great wealth, which he left to his widow, two 

 sons, and two daughters. 



Lay, Henry Cnamplin, an American clergyman, 

 born in Richmond, Va., Dec. 6, 1823; died i 

 Baltimore, Md., Sept. 17, 1885. He wasgradu- 



