BIOGRAPHY 



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Hall, and indictment of Senator Mitchell. George C. 

 Brownel), and other-. 



Hennepin, Louis, a French recollct frinr, missionary, 

 and traveler in North America; born in Flanders about 

 1 H 10. At length he embarked for Canada and arrived at 

 Quebec in 1675. Between that period and 1682 he ex- 

 plored the regions afterward called Louisiana, and 

 returning to Europe, published an account of his re- 

 searehe-. 'I he geographical portions of his works are 

 feeble but they present much interest as descriptions of 

 the manners of the aboriginal races which the author 

 i. He die.) in I'trecht about 1706. 



llenr\ I.. King of England; born in 1068, youngest 

 of William I., seized the throne on the death of 

 William II. ( 1 10O). and forced Robert to be content with 

 landy. but deprived him of this also after the battle 

 of Tenehebrai; married Matilda, daughter of Malcolm 

 111. and descendant of the Saxon kings; established 

 "Justices in Kyre," the court of exchequer, and a 

 standard of weights and measures, abolished the- curfew, 

 and compromised the Investiture question by an agree- 

 ment with Paschal II.. His charter was the foundation 

 of the (irr;it Charter. Pird. 11 :{.'.. 



Henry II., born in 113."., grandson of last-named, and 

 "f Maud and GeotTrev Plantagenet; came to the 

 throne in ll">t, married Eleanor of Aquitaine (divorced 

 wife of I .on is VII.), and acquired by the m -image Guienne 

 and Poitou; put down private war and jurisdiction*. 

 and subdued the last great feudal rising, which was aided 

 by William the I. ion, of Scotland, whom he compelled to 

 do homage; was engaged in a long quarrel with Beckct 

 as representative of the immunity <!" clerks from civil 

 jurisdiction, and sanctioned the first expedition against 

 Ireland, afterwards accepting the kingdom. His last 

 years were much troubled by wars with his sons. The 



important enactments of his reign were the A 



of Clarendon and Northampton, and the Assizes of arms, 

 besides the grant of charters to towns. He was the most 



rful prince of his time, was offered the imperial 

 throne, and possessed by various titles the greater part 

 .-f Franc.-. Lied. 1189. 



II. n i > 111., born in 1206, son of John by Isabella of 

 . \ngoulemc; came to the throne in 1216 when a minor, 

 ami in the course of a long reign provoked much hostility 

 by his foreign favorites and his submission to papal 

 >ntent culminating in the Barons' War 

 in which he was defeated at Lewes and com- 

 pelled to submit to control of the government by De 

 Mont fort arid his friends. 'I he-e. however, quarreled 

 among t hem-elves, and at Eyesham Pe Montfort was 

 nl .-lain. During this reign the Great Charter 

 h important clause-; omitted) was frequently renewed, 

 and Wot minster Abbey was almost entirely built. 

 DM- I. 1L'7J. 



Henr> VII.. born about 1456; first of the Tudor 

 on of Kdmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort, 



-cendant of John of Gaunt; invaded Kngland in 

 MS:,, and defeated Richard III. at Bosworth. after 

 which he married F.li/abeth. daughter of Kdward IV. 



reinn was marked by three Yorkist risings, which he 

 defeated, by the rnea-ures he enforce,) against the nobles, 

 1>\ with foreign princes, and the 



enactment of Poymng's law. Pie, I. I 



Henrj Mil., bom m M91; son of Henry VII., 



whom he succeeded in 1.">O!; married Katherine of 



Arngon, wife of Ins deceased brother, his divorce from 



proximate cau-e of the Reformation. 



Papal jurisdiction was renounced, more especially by 



the Acts of Supremacy and of Appeal-, but the'king 



was strongly a \er-e io doctrinal changes. The c.-ul\ 



year M- marked by a war with France, 



Henry ti>k part in per -on; attempt- at union 



ind were made, but defeated by I rench and 



napnl influence; a -v-lcm of balance wa* main lamed in 



Ltions; a large anioin i>n>p 



etty wan 'he Crown. \\in, i.plete 



Church : t: 

 A a- suppressed; and the king b. 



. being granted by parliament the right 

 proclamation, and of 



lienr,\ II.. King of France, was born in l.ll.; on of 



whom he succeeded m I.M. :<am-e 



the (ierrnan Protcatnntx, I.- loiil. 



in. while he al MI the 



with Spain 



wit ' icntin. and 



lie: Mid inlb.ted in a tournament held 



lebrate its conclusion by the marriage of hi- daugh- 



i riuiip n. 



I'M r \ I \ .. , 1553; aa son 



of Anthonv ..f Navarre, a d*. l\ 



was founder of the Bourbon Dynasty, succr. 



III. in 1589. His marriage with Marguerite de Valois, 

 in 1572, was the occasion of the Bartholomew massa- 

 cres. In 1576, he quitted the court and became leader 

 of the Huguenots and opponent of the League, being 

 the rival of the Guises for the succession. He defeated 

 them at Arques and Ivry, but was unable to conquer 

 Paris without becoming a Roman Catholic, which he 

 did in 1593. He concluded peace with Philip II. at 

 Vervins, and issued the Edict of Nantes. The rest of 

 his reign was occupied by domestic reforms. He was 

 assassinated by Ravaillac. Died. 1610. 



Henry IV., of Germany, born in 1050; son of 

 Henry III., began the Investiture disputes with the 

 papacy, in the course of which he de|*>sed Gregory VII.. 

 but was himself excommunicated and deposed, and was 

 obliged to submit at Canossa in 1076, but. in 10M. 

 again invaded Italy, and captured Rome. In Germany 

 he had enemies in Rudolf of Swabia (whom he del. 

 finally at Wolksheim in 1080). in the Saxons, and in 



I his sons, Conrad and Henry, by the latter of whom he 

 was dethrone. 1. Pied, 1106. 



Henry, Joseph, an eminent American physicist; 

 born in Albany. N. Y., in 1797; was appointed pro- 

 fessor of natural philosophy in the College of New 

 Jersey at Princeton, in 1832; and, in 1846, was called 

 to the office of secretary or director of the Smithsonian 

 Institution at Washington, to the organization and wide 

 reputation of which he had mostly contributed. Henry 



! made most important discoveries in electro-magrn 

 Pi.-d. 1878. 



Henry, Patrick, born in 1736; American politician, 

 nephew of Robertson and cousin of Ix>rd Brougham; 

 practiced as an advocate in Virginia, where he first 

 came into prominence in 1763, by his pleading in the 

 of clerical incomes; was an active opponent of the 

 Stamp Act, and the chief leader of the revolution in 

 Virginia, being more extreme in his views than \\ 

 ington. He was for some years governor of hi- B 

 during which he opposed the Federal Constitution as 

 not democratic enough. He was an eloquent but reck- 

 less speaker, and was obliged to resume his profession 

 in order to cover his heavy debts. Pied. 1799. 



Hepburn, William Peters, congressman; born in 

 Wellsville, (.)., November 4. is.'U; taken to Iowa Terri- 

 tory, April, 1841; educated in local schools and in a 

 printing oilier; admitted to bar, 1X54; in t'nion army. 

 1861-65; captain, majorj and lieutenant-colonel, jd 

 Iowa cavalry; presidential elector. 1S7> and l^v 

 member of Congress, 1881-ST, and since 1893, from Mh 



i Iowa district. Chairman of Committee on Inl- 

 and Foreign Commerce, and author of the Hepburn Bill 



i to regulate interstate commerce. 



Herbert. Victor, conductor, composer; lx>rn in 



j Dublin. Ireland, February 1, 1859. Began musical edu- 

 cation in Germany at 7, studying under leading ma 

 first position of prominence that of principal violoncello 

 player in court orchestra, Stuttgart; heard in co: 

 throughout. Europe before coming to the United States 

 as solo violoncellist in Metropolitan Urdu 

 York, ISXli; since then has been connected with Theo- 

 dore Thomas's. Seidl's. ami other orchestral organi/:i 



' as soloist and conductor. Bandmaster of JlM Regiment 

 Hand. New York, -m, e 1VM; conductor of Pitt.sburg. 



>rc!ie-tra. I Vis i-.ni; \ ictOf II, 

 Orchestra -m, I'.itil. Composer: "TheCapti\> 



vl ten for ami performed at . Mass.. 



'Prince Ananias. I'he Wizard of the Nile. 



"The Serenade." "Cyrano de Bergernc." "The Am. 

 "The Tort une Teller." 



"The Singing Girl." "Babette." " Baltes in Toyland." 

 "It Happened in .V.rdland " (all comic operas). Alm> 



M compositions for orchestra, songs, and a co 

 for violoncello and orchestra. 



Herod the Great, born in 78 B C.; Kim: of ' 



put to death hi .nine, and I" 



!.e children of Bethlehem, ami rebuilt t 



P.ed. :< B C 



Herodotus, born in Hah. arnas-u-. m Gai 



eminent Greek hi-torian. u-ually called "thr 

 ,r of Hist,.- --eat work, for which he ap- 



i the material- during King <' 

 i- |.eiie\e.| to have been writion at Thuni 

 do\\n to -i rx H c ; and, except for the author'* love of 



the marvelou*. hi* history i : one of the most 



'.II ancient hi-tone*. wlulr in thr grncr 

 of it- .style it i- unrnalisl ! t:lish trnn-l > 



of II. ' uion Raw I 



Pied, in Thmn. in Italy. al-ut J B C 

 I I ' h, I. \\ illi.ini. >ir. in en. men- 



and died in ]s 

 of his life was spent MI England. John I rod. 



; fu.n. who \\a* aUi distinguished in tlir M 



Imr. was iH.rn m Kni-1 and died < 



