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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



its counsel in the advocacy of the reciprocity 

 treaty. He organized and was Secretary of 

 the Mexican, Rio Grande, and Pacific Railway 

 Company, and in 1854 obtained a charter from 

 the Mexican Government that authorized the 

 construction of a railroad across that country. 

 Mr. Hayes was one of the marshals that rode 

 beside the carriage of Abraham Lincoln at his 

 first inauguration, and in 1861 was appointed 

 Chief Clerk of the Patent-Office. This place 

 he held until 1865 when, on the organization 

 of the National Association of Wool Manufact- 

 urers, he became its secretary, and continued 

 so until his death. In 1822 he was appointed 

 president of the Tariff Commission. Mr. Hayes 

 collected and mounted a cabinet of birds, made 

 a herbarium, and studied geology in the library 

 and field. In 1843 he read a paper before the 

 American Association of Geologists and Natu- 

 ralists, of which he was a member, on " Gla- 

 ciers," which was regarded as the most impor- 

 tant contribution, up to that time, on glacial 

 phenomena in relation to geology. He was 

 elected a member of the Boston Society of Nat- 

 ural History in 1845, and was connected with 

 other scientific bodies both at home and abroad. 

 In 1860 he received the degree of LL.D. from 

 Dartmouth. He edited the " United States In- 

 dustrial Directory " and the " Bulletin of the 

 National Association of Wool Manufacturers," 

 of which he was also the principal contributor. 

 His \vritingt!, which are both scientific and po- 

 litical, include nearly one hundred titles, among 

 which are "Report on North American In- 

 dians"; "Jackson's Vindication as the Dis- 

 coverer of Anesthetics " ; " Sketch of Ma- 

 ryland Geology " ; " Sheep Industry in the 

 South " ; and very many papers on wool-grow- 

 ing and wool -manufacture, as well as on its 

 relations to the tariff issues. He also published 

 " Reminiscences of the Free-soil Movement in 

 New Hampshire " (1845), that attracted much 

 attention, he himself drawing up the call for 

 the first convention of Independent Democrats, 

 when Senator John P. Hale withdrew from 

 the Democratic party ; also, " Corolla Hym- 

 norum Sacrorum, 1 ' a selection of Latin hymns 

 of the early and middle ages (Boston, 1887). 



Henne, Antonia, an American singer, born in 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850; died in New York 

 city, July 18, 1887. While yet a child she dis- 

 tinguished herself by singing in concerts and 

 operas in her native city, where her father was 

 employed as a teacher of languages in the pub- 

 lic schools, appearing in " Der Freischutz " as 

 early as her twelfth year. In 1865 she re- 

 moved to New York city for the purpose of 

 vocal study, and, whil.e under the tuition of 

 Signor Muzio, sang in Theodore Thomas's 

 symphony soirees in the season of 1866. In 

 1869 she went to Europe, studying two years 

 in Florence, and returning to New York in 

 1871, having been engaged as contralto for the 

 choir of Madison Square Presbyterian Church, 

 where she sang till two months previous to her 

 death. During this engagement she took part 



in many of the Philharmonic concerts and in 

 the classical concerts of Thomas and Damrosch, 

 and appeared in all the concerts of the Church 

 Music Association, besides those of other so- 

 cieties. Latterly she had given much of her 

 time to the musical instruction of young ladies, 

 and was winning a high reputation as a teacher 

 when she was bitten by a dog in the summer 

 of 1886, and her nervous system sustained a 

 shock from which she never recovered. Aban- 

 doning all else, she sang with the choir till she 

 became too feeble to leave her house, and passed 

 away in an attack of apoplexy. 



Holliday, Ben, an American pioneer, born in 

 Bourbon County, Ky., in 1819; died in Port- 

 land, Ore., July 8, 1887. While a mere youth 

 he removed to Leavenworth, Kan., and became 

 a leader in the rugged life of that section. At 

 the outbreak of the civil war he established 

 himself as a contractor, purchasing the various 

 materials required by the subsistence, military, 

 and Indian departments. With the proceeds 

 of this business he opened mercantile houses in 

 Salt Lake City and San Francisco, and bought 

 out the Brigham Young express, with which 

 the Federal authorities had refused to renew a 

 contract for mail transportation after the Mor- 

 mon war of 1857-'o8. Mr. Holliday had no 

 difficulty in securing a valuable contract with 

 the Government, and his mail and overland 

 express was for the next ten years the connect- 

 ing-link between the frontier States of the 

 West and the Pacific coast. To facilitate the 

 speedy delivery of important business letters 

 and newspapers, he organized the "pony ex- 

 press," for which stations were opened at 

 regular intervals over an uninhabited stretch 

 of country 2,000 miles across, relays of horses 

 were kept at each station, and daring riders at. 

 every third station. The trip from San Fran- 

 cisco to St. Joseph, Mo., was thus made in ten 

 days. Mr. Holliday's mail pay from the Gov- 

 ernment on the overland route soon amounted 

 to $150,000 a year, and the income from his 

 stages to $1,500 a day. He invested largely in 

 cattle-raising, was one of the owners of the 

 famed Ophir mine in Nevada, and established 

 steamship-lines between San Francisco and 

 Portland, Oregon, the Sandwich Islands, and 

 Australia. By 1866 his wealth was estimated 

 at $10,000,000. In 1868 he sold his overland 

 mail route to Wells, Fargo & Co. for $850,- 

 000, removed to Portland, and began building 

 the Oregon and California Railroad. With his 

 income from the Ophir mine he purchased a 

 farm in Westchester County, N. Y., to which 

 he gave the name of Ophir, and expended 

 about $1,000,000 on the erection of a stately 

 castle and the beautifying of the grounds. He 

 met with serious losses in the panic of 1873, 

 abandoned Ophir farm, and retired to Port- 

 land. One of his daughters became the 

 Comtesse de Pourtales, and another the 

 Baroness de Bnssiere. 



Homes, Henry Augustus, an American librarian, 

 born in Boston, Mass., March 10, 1812; died in 



