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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (HELMUTH HOADLY.) 



Helmuth, William Tod, physician, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 30, 1833; died in New 

 York city, May 15, 1902. He was graduated at 

 the Homeopathic Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 in 1853; became Professor of Anatomy there in 

 1855; and during the interval wrote Surgery and 

 its Adaptation to Homeopathic Practise. In 

 1858 he began practise in St. Louis, Mo., and in 

 the following year organized the College of 

 Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons there, 

 and was made its dean and Professor of Surgery. 

 In 1867 he was president of the American Insti- 

 tute of Homeopaths; the following year he 

 spent in Europe studying surgery; and in 1869 

 he was made Professor of Surgery in the New 

 York Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- 

 pital. Dr. Helmuth was one of the editors of 

 the North American Homeopathic Journal, and 

 was author of numerous works, including A Sys- 

 tem of Surgery, Scratches of a Surgeon, Supra- 

 pubic Lithotomy, and With the Pousse Caf6. 



Hemphill, William Arnold, publisher, born 

 in Athens, Ga., May 5, 1842; died in Atlanta, 

 Ga., Aug. 17, 1902. He was graduated at the 

 University of Georgia, where he received the de- 

 gree of civil engineer; served in the Confederate 

 army during the civil war, and was wounded at 

 Gettysburg. He was mayor of Atlanta in 1891, 

 and founded the Atlanta Constitution. 



Hendrickson, John, merchant, born in Mid- 

 dletown, N. J., about 1832; died in New York 

 city, June 29, 1902. He served in the civil war, 

 first as a lieutenant in the 7th New York Regi- 

 ment and later as colonel of the 9th Regiment. 

 In the battle of Fredericksburg he lost his right 

 leg, and at the close of the war he was brevetted 

 brigadier-general of volunteers for gallant and 

 meritorious services. In early life he was en- 

 gaged in the silk business, later in the cotton 

 trade, and after 1880 in the woolen trade. 



Henry, John W., jurist, born in Cynthiana, 

 Ky.; died in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 12, 1902. 

 He studied law at the Transylvania Law School, 

 began practise in Booneville about 1840, and sub- 

 sequently formed a partnership with J. Brown 

 Hovey in Independence, Mo. In 1872 he was ap- 

 pointed a district judge to fill a vacancy, and 

 afterward was twice elected to the office for full 

 terms. In 1876 he was appointed a judge of the 

 Supreme Court, on which bench he served till 

 1888, being Chief Justice in the two last years. 

 On his retirement he settled in Independence. A 

 year afterward he was appointed a judge of the 

 circuit court, which was his last judicial office. 



Hepworth, George Hughes, clergyman and, 

 journalist, born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1833;' 

 died in New York city, June 7, 1902. He was 

 graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1855. 

 He was pastor of a Unitarian Church in Nan- 

 tucket in 1855-'57, and in the following year or- 

 ganized a Unitarian Society in South Boston, 

 which grew so rapidly that a church was built, 

 known as the Church of the Unity. In 1862, 

 while in charge of this church, he received leave 

 of absence and entered the 47th Massachusetts 

 Regiment as chaplain, and served throughout the 

 Louisiana campaign. In 1863 he was transferred 

 to the staff of Gen. Banks, and at the end of the 

 year returned to his church, and soon afterward 

 wrote an account of his army experiences under 

 the title Whip, Hoe, and Sword. In 1870 he left 

 this church, and soon afterward was called to 

 the Church of the Messiah, New York city, where 

 he remained two years, when he withdrew from 

 the Unitarian Church and became pastor of the 

 Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York 

 city. In 1880 he was sent to Ireland by the New 



York Herald to distribute a relief fund to the 

 famine sufferers. Since 1885 he had applied him- 

 self exclusively to journalism and literary work. 

 In 1897 he was sent to Armenia as special cor- 

 respondent of the Herald. Dr. Hepworth was 

 author of They Met in Heaven ; The Life Beyond ; 

 The Farmer and the Lord ; Starboard and Port ; 

 The Little Gentlemen in Green; Rocks and 

 Shoals; Lectures to Young Men; Christ and His 

 Church; Hiram Golf's Religion; Brown Studies; 

 and On Horseback through Armenia. 



Herron, Francis Jay, military officer, born in 

 Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 17, 1837; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 8, 1902. He was graduated at the 

 Western University of Pennsylvania in 1854; 

 and removed to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1856, where 

 he became a merchant. When the civil war broke 

 out he organized and commanded the Governor's 

 Grays, in the 1st Iowa Regiment; was engaged 

 in the battles of Booneville, Dug Springs, Ozark, 

 and Wilson's Creek; was promoted lieutenant- 

 colonel of the 9th Iowa Infantry in Septem- 

 ber, 1861 ; commanded it through the cam- 

 paigns in Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Ter- 

 ritory; and later was promoted colonel of thj 

 regiment, and distinguished himself at the battl j 

 of Pea Ridge, where he was wounded and taken 

 prisoner, but was soon exchanged. He was com- 

 missioned a brigadier-general of volunteers July 

 29, 1862, and commanded in the battle of Prairie 

 Grove, Ark., for which he was promoted major- 

 general of volunteers Nov. 9. Early in 1863 he 

 joined Gen. Grant at Vicksburg. where he com- 

 manded the left wing of the National forces till 

 the surrender of the city. He then commanded 

 the expedition that captured Yazoo City and the 

 large fleet of boats and supplies there. Later he 

 was placed in command of the 13th Army Corps, 

 on the Texas coast. While there he broke up the 

 traffic across the Rio Grande, and, under private 

 instructions from Washington, gave what aid 

 he could to President Juarez of Mexico, and 

 prevented Maximilian's troops from establishing 

 themselves at any point on the Rio Grande fron- 

 tier. For this service President Juarez offered 

 him a high command in the Mexican army. In 

 March, 1865, he was assigned to command the 

 Northern Division of Louisiana, and in June he 

 received the surrender of all the Confederate 

 forces west of the Mississippi. In July he was ap- 

 pointed one of the commissioners to negotiata 

 treaties with the Indian tribes. He resigned the 

 latter commission together with that of major- 

 general in August of the same year. In 1873 he 

 removed to New York, where *he practised law 

 till his death. 



Hirsch, Solomon, diplomatist, died in Port- 

 land, Ore., Dec. 15, 1902. He was a merchant in 

 Portland, and well known in Oregon politic?. 

 While president of the State Senate, in 1885, he 

 was nominated for the United States Senate. As 

 the vote was a tie, he could have elected himsell', 

 but he cast his vote for his opponent. In 188') 

 he was appointed minister to Turkey. 



Hoadly, George, jurist, born in New Haver, 

 Conn.. July 31, 1826; died in Watkins, N. Y , \ 

 Aug. 27, 1902. He was graduated at Western Re- 

 serve College in 1844; studied at Harvard Lav 

 School, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. 

 In 1849 he became a partner in the law firm of ' 

 Chase & Ball; in 1851 was elected a judge of ths 

 Superior Court of Cincinnati; in IS.")."). < ilv solic- 

 itor; and in 1858 succeeded Judge Gholson on ths 

 bench of the new Superior Court. He resigned 

 his judgeship in 1866, and established a law firm 

 of which he was the head. During the civil war 

 he became a Republican, but in 1876 his opposi- 



