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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HINKEL JAY.) 



June 15, 1864; and the assault on Petersburg, June 

 16. He was bre vetted colonel, U. S. A., for Antietam ; 

 brigadier general, U. S. A., for Petersburg ; and major 

 general of volunteers for gallant services during the 

 war. Gen. Hincks was wounded four times, twice at 

 Antietam, where he was left on the field for dead. _ He 

 was commissioned lieutenant colonel 40th United 

 States Infantry, July 28, 1866 ; was transferred to the 

 2;~>th Infantry, March 15, 1869 ; and was retired with 

 the rank of colonel, Dec. 15, 1870. In 1882-'89 he 

 \vas an alderman in Cambridge, and during his lust 

 year was president of the board. 



Hinkel, Charles John, educator, born in Hanau, Ger- 

 mauv, Jan. 9, 1817 ; died in Amagansett, Long Is- 

 land'. N. Y., Aug. 21, 1894. He attended the gymna- 

 sium of his native city from 1827 till 1834, and then 

 went to the University of Marburg, where he studied 

 theology and philosophy, taking his degree of Ph. D. 

 in 1838. Immediately after graduation lie was called 

 to the gymnasium in Kinteln, Hesse, where he taught 

 Latin and Greek. From Kinteln he was called to the 

 Polytechnic in Hesse-Cassel, and later to the gym- 

 nasium of the same city, remaining ; as the Govern- 

 ment directed, several years in each institution. His 

 next call was to the University of Marburg, where 

 for nine years he lectured on philology and philoso- 

 phy. In 1855 he resigned his professorship for po- 

 litical reasons, and, coming to the United States, 

 continued his educational work. In 1867-'69 he was 

 director of the Martha Institute in Hoboken, N. J., 

 and from 1869 till 1890 he was Professor of the Greek 

 and Latin Languages and Literature at Vassar Col- 

 lege, retiring from active work in the latter year. 

 Dr. Hinkel published u Die Speculative Analysis des 

 Begrift's Geist " in Kinteln ; " Leitfaden bei d'em Un- 

 terficht in der deutschen Grammatik " in Cassel ; and 

 " Allgemeine Aesthetik fur gebildete Leser" in Mar- 

 burg; and was also a contributor to foreign cyclo- 

 paedias. 



Holt, Joseph, jurist, born in Breckinridge County, 

 Ky., Jan. 6, 1807 ; died in Washington, D. C., Aug. 1, 

 1894. He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Bards- 

 town, and at Center College, Danville, began prac- 

 ticing law in Elizabethtovvn, Ky., in 1828, and re- 

 moved to Louisville in 1832 and to Port Gibson, 

 Miss., in 1835. He acquired 

 rapidly a lucrative prac- 

 tice, developed much pow- 

 er as an orator, and early 

 entered political life. At 

 the Democratic National 

 Convention at Baltimore in 

 February, 1835, he replied 

 to a fierce attack on his 

 friend Rich ard M. Johnson, 

 subsequently V ice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States, 

 in a speech that was long 

 remembered for its elo- 

 quence and dramatic de- 

 livery. Inl842-'48 he lived 

 in Louisville, and then spent several years in Europe, 

 settling in Washington, D. C., on his return. In 1857 

 President Buchanan appointed him Commissioner of 

 Patents, in 1859 Postmaster-General, and in 1860, on 

 the resignation of John B. Floyd, Secretary of War. 

 He co-operated^with Gen. Scott in the measures taken 

 to prevent hostile demonstrations at the inauguration 

 of President Lincoln, and appealed to the citizens of 

 his native State " to rouse themselves from their leth- 

 argy and fly to the rescue of their country before it is 

 everlastingly too late." On Sept. 3, 1862, President 

 Lincoln appointed him judge-advocate general of the 

 army, with the rank of colonel. He was promoted 

 brigadier general June 22, 1864; brevetted major gen- 

 eral for distinguished services in the Bureau of Mili- 

 tary Justice during the war, March 13, 1865; and was 

 retired Dec. 1, 1875. With the exception of Gen. 

 Cass he was the only member of the old Buchanan 

 Cabinet who did not sympathize with the South. He 

 was the first incumbent of the chief office in the Bu- 



reau of Military Justice; was conspicuous in various 

 courts martial and courts of justice, notably that be- 

 fore which President Lincoln's assassins were ar- 

 raigned ; several times declined Cabinet offices ten- 

 dered him since the war ; and delivered his last 

 speech at the replacing of the flag on Fort Sumter. 



Howe, William Bell, clergyman, born in Claremont, 

 N. H., March 21, 1823 ; died in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 

 25, 1894. He was graduated at the University of 

 Vermont in 1844. He assumed deacon's orders in 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1847, and became 

 a priest in that Church in 1849. After being succes- 

 sively rector of St. John's Church, Berkeley, and St. 

 Philip's, Charleston, he was consecrated * assistant 

 Bishop of South Carolina in October, 1871, and in 

 December of that year, on the death of Bishop Davis, 

 he became the sixth bishop of the diocese. In 1871 

 he received the degree of D. D. from the University 

 of the South, and in 1872 the same honor from Co- 

 lumbia College. He published several sermons and 

 addresses. His elder brother, John Budlam Howe, 

 was a noted writer on finance. Bishop Howe was a 

 man of great strength of character and stanch con- 

 victions, and his steadiness of purpose was of much 

 service in the administration of a diocese in which 

 more than one sharp discussion has occurred. lie 

 suffered an attack of paralysis two years previously to 

 his death, and in the summer of 1893 many of his 

 duties were assumed by the assistant bishop. 



Hunt, Alexander Cameron, governor, born in Ham- 

 mondsport, N. Y., in 1829; died in Tennallytown, 

 D. C., May 14, 1894. When a child he accompanied 

 his parents to Freeport, 111., where he lived till 1850, 

 when he went to Colorado, of which he was Governor 

 in 1867-'69. 



Insley, Henry E., photographer, born in 1811 ; died 

 in Nanuet, Kockland County, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1894. 

 When Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse returned to the 

 United States in 1839 after learning the art of mak- 

 ing daguerreotypes from Daguerre he went to George 

 W. Prosch, a manufacturer of instruments on Nassau 

 Street, New York city, to secure his aid in making 

 the necessary instruments. Mr. Prosch was a brother- 

 in-law of Mr. Insley, who was then engaged in 

 broom-making on the Bowery. According to Mr. 

 Inslev, the first daguerreotype of still life made in 

 the United States was by Prof. Morse and Mr. Prosch, 

 and the first life portrait by the new process was 1>\ 

 Prof. Draper. Messrs. Prosch and Insley opened a 

 daguerreotype gallery at Broadway and Liberty 

 Street, in which Prof. Morse is believed to have had 

 an interest, and conducted it for nearly a year, when 

 "cool weather and short days" forced them to close. 

 In 1841 Mr. Insley opened a gallery at Broadway and 

 Cedar Street, where he did a large" business for many 

 years. He claimed to have been the first operator to 

 take an instantaneous view of a moving object, which 

 was a man walking along the Bowery. The picture 

 was taken by moving the camera as the man walked. 

 He introduced a combination of mirrors and colored 

 glass by which the eyes of a sitter were protected fr< >m 

 the glare of direct sunlight, and discovered a method 

 of giving a pink tint to the cheeks of sitters. 



Jay, John, lawyer, born in New York city. .Tune _'">. 

 1817 ; died there, May 5, 1894. He was of' Huguenot 

 descent, a grandson of John Jay, Franklin's associ- 

 ate commissioner in Paris, the" first Chief Justice 

 of the United States, and a son of William Jay. dis- 

 tinguished as a jurist, author, and philanthropist. 

 In 1836 he was graduated at Columbia Colleire, in 

 the class with Samuel Blatchford and William K. 

 Travers, and in 1839 he was admitted to the bar. 

 From youth he was deeply interested in the anti- 

 slavery movement. He became a manager of the 

 New York Young Men's Antislavery Society in ls:;4. 

 and was an active promoter of the cause till legalized 

 slavery ceased to exist. He acted as volunteer coun- 

 sel for many fugitive slaves, presided over two New 

 York State conventions of the Free-soil party, was 

 once the candidate of that party for Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, and organized the series of popular meetings in 



