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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



of well-known hymns and religious poems. 

 In June, 1886, as his strength would not per- 

 mit the performance of his duties in the class- 

 room, he was elected professor emeritus. 



Harrison, Benjamin Franklin, an American phy- 

 sician, born in North Branford, Conn., April 

 19, 1811; died in Wallingford, Conn., April 

 23, 1886. He was graduated at the medical 

 department of Yale in 1836, and settled in 

 Wallingford, where he practiced his profession 

 for fifty years. In 1846 he visited Europe, 

 and spent six months studying in Paris, also 

 visiting hospitals elsewhere. During the civil 

 war he served as surgeon with the Independ- 

 ent Battalion of New York Volunteers, from 

 September, 1862, till March, 1864. Subse- 

 quently he was associated with the United 

 States Sanitary Commission, and during the 

 summer of 1864 was sent to South Carolina 

 and Florida. He was prominent in most of 

 the public measures adopted in Wallingford. 

 It was largely through his efforts that water 

 was introduced into the town, and he was 

 urgent in his appeals for beautifying the streets 

 with shade-trees, himself planting many of 

 its elms. For years he was principal of the 

 school board, and was always active in pro- 

 moting the cause of education. He kept a 

 careful record of the rainfall during thirty 

 years, and made other meteorological observa- 

 tions. Dr. Harrison was a member of several 

 scientific societies, and had been President of 

 the County Medical Society. In 1872 he re- 

 ceived the degree of A. M. from Yale, to which 

 institution he bequeathed his medical library. 



Hendricken, Thomas Francis, an American cler- 

 gyman, born in Kilkenny, Ireland, May 5, 1827; 

 died in Providence, R. I., June 11, 1886. He 

 was educated for the priesthood of the Roman 

 Catholic Church, in McDonald's Academy and 

 St. Kyran's College, in his native city, and the 

 Theological Seminary at Maynooth. He was 

 ordained in Dublin, April 29, 1853, by Bishop 

 O'Reilly, of the Diocese of Hartford, Conn., 

 then visiting Ireland, and on his invitation the 

 young priest came to America. His earliest 

 missions were at the cathedral in Providence, 

 at St. Joseph's, in the same city, at Woon- 

 socket, and at Newport. On Jan. 17, 1854, 

 he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's, West 

 Winsted, Conn., and on July 5 was stationed 

 at Waterbury, in the same State. He remained 

 in that parish for seventeen years, during which 

 period he built a costly Gothic church, a school- 

 house, and pastoral residence, bought and laid 

 out a cemetery, founded a convent, and served 

 acceptably as a member of the Board of Edu- 

 cation of the city. What he accomplished in 

 this parish commended him to a higher ap- 

 pointment, and when, in 1872, the Diocese of 

 Hartford was divided and the Diocese of Prov- 

 idence created, he was appointed by Pope Pius 

 IX the first bishop of the new diocese, com- 

 prising the State of Rhode Island, Bristol, Barn- 

 stable, and part of Plymouth Counties, Mass., 

 and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nan- 



tucket. He was consecrated April 28, 1872. 

 At the time of his death he had nearly com- 

 pleted an imposing cathedral. 



Hildbnrghanser, flyman, an American philan- 

 thropist, born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, in 1812; 

 died in New York city, Jan. 22, 1886. ' He came 

 to America in 1836, and settling in New York 

 engaged first in the dry-goods and afterward 

 in the general insurance business. He took a 

 leading part in the Hebrew institutions of the 

 city, devoting much of his time and means to 

 their interests ; was one of the founders and 

 most earnest supporters of the Hebrew Benev- 

 olent Society, and had served as President of 

 the Grand Lodge of the Hebrew Fraternal Order 

 of B'nai B'rith. 



Hill, John Boynton, an American lawyer, born 

 in Mason, N. H., Nov. 25, 1796 ; died in Tem- 

 ple, N. H., May 3, 1886. He practiced law for 

 many years in Bangor, Me., and was the au- 

 thor of the original Maine liquor law. He 

 published histories of Mason, Old Constable, 

 and other localities in his native State. 



Hoadley, John Chipman, an American civil en- 

 gineer, born in Turin, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1818 ; died 

 in Boston, Mass., Oct. 21, 1886. He began his 

 engineering career in the employ of the State 

 of New York, during 1836, on the survey for 

 enlargement of the Erie Canal, where his abil- 

 ity brought him quick promotion and respon- 

 sible work. In 1844 he became engineer for 

 the construction and equipment of a number 

 of mills in Clinton, Mass., and devoted himself 

 tor four years to the wide range of work neces- 

 sary to build up a variety of industries, a task 

 that he accomplished with rare success. He 

 then became associated with Jordan McKay in 

 the manufacture of engines and other machin- 

 ery, in Pittsfield, and in 1852 was appointed 

 superintendent of the Lawrence machine-shop. 

 Subsequently he again turned his attention to 

 the manufacture of machinery. His experi- 

 ence with locomotives led him into an analysis 

 of the dynamical relations that speed bore to 

 the operation of engines, and the result of his 

 investigations, partly theoretical and partly 

 practical, were shown in his invention of the 

 Hoadley portable engine, which was probably 

 the first application of scientific principles to 

 the design of high-speed engines. These soon 

 gained a high reputation and sold extensively 

 throughout the United States. Meanwhile he 

 had become interested in the organization of 

 the Clinton Wire Cloth Company, agent of the 

 New Bedford Copper Company, and of the 

 McKay Sewing-Machine Association, and was 

 one of the founders and President of the Archi- 

 bald Wheel Company. After 1876 he devoted 

 his attention chiefly to mechanical and engi- 

 neering questions, serving as an expert on im- 

 portant cases in the courts, and filling respon- 

 sible places in mechanical exhibitions. During 

 the civil war he was sent to England by the 

 State of Massachusetts, to examine ordnance 

 and fortifications, for the purpose of devising 

 a system of American sea- coast defenses. His 



