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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HARMKR HENRY.) 



lation to Crime (1873); Spiritualism and Allied 

 Causes and Conditions of Nervous Derangement 

 (1876) ; Cerebral Hyperaemia (1878) ; Fasting Girls 

 (1879) ; Neurological Contributions of Studies and 

 Case Records (1879); On Certain Conditions of 

 Nervous Derangement: Somnambulism, Hypno- 

 tism, Hysteria, Hysteroid Affections (1881); Dr. 

 Grattan (1884); Lai (1884); A Strong-minded 

 Woman (1885); Mr. Oldmixon (1885); On the 

 Susquehanna (1887); Sexual Impotence in the 

 Male (1886); Sexual Impotence in Male and Fe- 

 male (Detroit, 1887); Spinal Irritation (1888); 

 The Son of Perdition (Chicago, 1898) ; and with 

 Clara Lanza, Tales of Eccentric Life (New York, 

 1886). 



Hanner, Alfred Grout, merchant, born in 

 Germantown, Pa., Aug. 25, 1825; died there, 

 March 6, 1900. He was educated in the public 

 schools and at the Germantown Academy. He 

 began business as a shoe manufacturer, and later 

 became a wholesale dealer. He was afterward 

 identified with railroad enterprises and mining 

 and land operations. He was elected to the city 

 council of Philadelphia in 1856, and served till 

 1860, when he was elected recorder of deeds, 

 which office he held three years. He was a dele- 

 gate to the Republican National Convention that 

 nominated General Grant for President. He was 

 elected to Congress in 1870, and re-elected in 1872 

 and 1876. He was " father of the House " after 

 the death of Representative O'Neill. 



Harnden, Henry, soldier, born in Massachu- 

 setts in 1823; died in Madison, Wis., March 17, 

 1900. He followed the sea several years, and 

 later took part in the Mexican War. He served 

 in the civil war, and on May 6, 1865, was ordered 

 by Gen. Wilson, in command of the 1st Division, 

 Cavalry Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland, 

 to take 150 men and pursue Jefferson Davis and 

 his party, who several days previously had been 

 at Macon, Ga. After a chase of four days he 

 overtook Davis and a number of Confederate 

 officers. During the capture there was by mis- 

 take a collision between Harnden's men and a 

 small detachment from the 4th Michigan, which 

 caused the death of two men; each party took 

 the other for Confederates. A congressional in- 

 vestigation exonerated Harnden. At the time of 

 his death he was commander of the Wisconsin de- 

 partment of the Grand Army of the Republic. 



Haskell, Thomas Hawes, lawyer, born in 

 New Gloucester, Me., May 18, 1842; died in 

 Portland, Me., Sept. 24, 1900. He was graduated 

 at the Norway Liberal Institute in 1862. In 

 1862-'63 he served in the National army. He 

 was admitted to the Maine bar in February, 

 1865, and began practice in Portland in 1866. He 

 was elected in 1884 Associate Justice of the Su- 

 preme Judicial Court of Maine. His term would 

 have expired in 1905. Judge Haskell was known 

 as one of the greatest case lawyers in New Eng- 

 land. He published Haskell's Reports (2 vols.) 

 and The New Gloucester Centennial (1874). 



Hastings, Silas Wright, soldier, born in 

 Franklin County, New York, April 30, 1846; 

 died in Washington, D. C., June 3, 1900. He en- 

 listed in the volunteer army in 1862, and at the 

 close of the war was colonel of the 142d New 

 York Regiment, and had been brevetted brigadier 

 general. He was badly wounded in one of the 

 battles in which he was engaged. After the war 

 he returned to Franklin County, and later he 

 spent some years in California. In 1889 he went 

 to New York city, and became general agent of 

 the Consolidated Coal Company. 



Hazen, Henry Allen, meteorologist, born in 

 Serur, India, Jan. 12, 1849; died in Washington, 



D. C., Jan. 23, 1900. He was graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1871, and was instructor in 

 drawing in Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity till 1875, becoming Assistant Professor in 

 Meteorology, which chair he held till 1879. May 

 1, 1881, he went to Washington as computer in 

 the United States Signal Service. In October. 

 1887, he became one of the regular officers in this 

 department, and made forecasts for the whole 

 country. July 1, 1891, he was made Professor of 

 Meteorology of the Weather Bureau. He devised 

 a system for reducing barometric observations to 

 sea level, a sling psychrometer, and a thermom- 

 eter shelter. He published Meteorological Tables 

 (1888) and The Tornado (1890). 



Healy, James Augustin, clergyman, born in 

 Macon, Ga., Aug. 6, 1830; died in Portland, Me., 

 Aug. 5, 1900. He studied civil engineering, and 

 began its practice, but later turned to the Church, 

 and in 1849 was graduated at Holy Cross College, 

 at Worcester, Mass., at the head of his class. He 

 continued his theological studies at the Grand 

 Seminary, in Montreal, and at St. Sulpice, at Paris. 

 June 10, 1854, he was ordained a priest in the 

 Catholic cathedral of Notre Dame. He returned 

 to the United States, and for a time acted as sec- 

 retary of Bishop Fitzpatrick in Boston; later he 

 became first chancellor of the diocese of Boston, 

 serving as rector of the cathedral twelve years. 

 In 1866 he became rector of St. James's Church 

 which place he held nine years. Feb. 12, 1875 

 he was elected bishop of the diocese of Maine, and 

 he was consecrated June 2, 1875. 



Hendrie, John W.. philanthropist, born in 

 Sound Beach, Conn., Nov. 18, 1821; died there, 

 Nov. 25, 1900. He was graduated at Yale Uni- 

 versity in 1851, and in 1854 he w T ent to San Fran- 

 cisco, where he became *a merchant and a dealer 

 in real estate. After amassing a fortune in Cali- 

 fornia, he returned to his native town. His prin- 

 cipal gifts were $15,000 to the Mercantile Library 

 in San Francisco and $10,000 to the Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences of the same city, in 1897 ; in 

 the same year a gift of $50,000 to Yale Law 

 School was announced, and later contributions 

 made his gifts to that university double thai 

 amount.' He also made various liberal gifts to 

 local churches and benevolent institution-. 



Hennessy, John, clergyman, born in Limerick 

 County, Ireland, Aug. 20, 1825; died in Dubuque, 

 Iowa, March 4, 1900. In 1847 he removed to Ca- 

 rondelet, Mo., where he studied theology. Nov. 1, 

 1850, he was ordained a priest, and his first mis 

 sion was at New Madrid, Mo., where he entered 

 upon his duties, Jan. 20, 1851. A few months 

 later he became pastor of St. Peter's Church, Gra- 

 vois, Mo., where he remained till 1854. He was 

 then called to the duty of preparing priests fo - 

 missionary work, being installed in the Canm 

 delet Seminary as vice-president and Professor of 

 Dogmatic Theology and Ecclesiastical History. IIM 



1857 he became president of the seminary. In 



1858 he was sent to Rome as representative of 

 Archbishop Kenrick. After his return he officiated 

 a year at the St. Louis Cathedral. Jan. 12, 1860, 

 he became pastor of St. Joseph's Church, at St. 

 Joseph, Mo., remaining there six years. April 24 r 

 1866, he was elected Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, an<l 

 Sept. 30, 1866, was consecrated. The diocese of 

 Dubuque was created an archdiocese in 1893, and 

 Sept. 17, 1893, Bishop Hennessy was made arch- 

 bishop. In 1873 he was instrumental in founding 

 the New Melleray Abbey, and in the same year h? 

 founded St. Joseph's College, Dubuque. 



Henry, William Wirt, lawyer, born in Rfl 

 Hill, Charlotte County, Va., Feb. 14, 1831; 

 died in Richmond, Va., Dec. 5, 1900. He waJ 



