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Rh is known as "Los tres primeros historiadores de Cuba " (Havana, 1876). Urrutia published also "Compendio de Memorias para servir a la historia de la Isla Fernandina de Cuba" (1791).

URTIAGA, Pedro (oor-tee-ah'-gah), Mexican missionary, b. in Queretaro about 1650 ; d. in Porto Rico about 1720. He entered the Order of St. Fran- cis, and set out for Central America with four other missionaries in 1694. He obtained good re- sults among the wild Choles, Talamanca, and Tologalpa tribes, whose language he soon learned, and founded in the city of Guatemala the College of Propaganda Fide. In 1703 he went to Spain, and on his return in 1704 he was captured by a British cruiser and landed on the coast of Portu- gal. He returned on foot to the court of Madrid, and was appointed bishop of Porto Rico, in which city he died. Besides numerous religious works of mei'it, which have been reprinted many times in Mexico and Guatemala, he is author of " Diario del viage de los cinco misioneros Franciscanos desde Queretaro hasta Guatemala en 1694; y conquista espiritual de los Indios Choles, Talamancos y To- logalpos" (Mexico, 1702).

URUGUAY, Paulino José Soares e Souza (oo-roo-gah'-ee), Viscount de, Brazilian statesman, b. in Paris, France, in 1807; d. in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 15 July, 1866. He was educated at the Uni- versity of Coimbra, studied law in the Academy of Sao Paulo, Brazil, entered the magistracy in 1831, was a member, and afterward president, of the pro- vincial assembly of Rio Janeiro, after the promul- gation of the additional act to the constitution. He was a member of the Brazilian parliament in 1836-'49, entered the cabinet on 23 May, 1840, as minister of justice, and held the same office in 1841-'3, prepared the law of 3 Dec, 1841, which reformed the criminal procedure of the empire, was secretary of foreign relations in 1843-'4, and be- came a senator, 21 March, 1849. On 8 Oct. of the same year he succeeded Marquis de Olinda as sec- retary of foreign relations. He negotiated in 1851 the treaty of alliance between Uruguay, Entre-Rios, and Brazil, and treaties of commerce with Uru- guay, Peru, and the Argentine Republic, and re- signing, 6 Sept., 1853, was appointed on 8 Sept. a councillor of state, and created Viscount of Uru- guay and a grandee of the first class, 2 Dec, 1854. He went to Paris in the following year as minister to settle the difficult question of the frontier be- tween Brazil and French Guiana, returning in 1858 to Brazil. He wrote " Ensaios sobre o Dirieto ad- ministrative " (2 vols., Rio Janeiro, 1862) and " Estudos praticos sobre o administracao das pro- vincias do Brazil " (2 vols., 1866).

USHER, Hezekiah, bookseller, b. in England about 1615 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 14 March, 1676. He was a citizen of Cambridge in 1639, and in 1646 established himself in Boston, became a select-man of the town, and, as agent for the Society for propa- gating the gospel, purchased in England in 1657 the press and types for printing Eliot's Indian Bible. He was a founder of the Old South church in 1669. — His son, Hezekiah, bookseller, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 6 June, 1639 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 11 July, 1679, was also engaged in business in Bos- ton. During the excitement over witchcraft he was arrested, but was suffered to make his escape from the colony. His wife was Bridget, daughter of John Lisle, the regicide, and widow of Leonard Hoar. — Another son, John, lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire, b. in Boston, Mass., 27 April, 1648 ; d. in Medford. Mass., 1 Sept., 1726, succeeded his father in business, and became a member of the council, a colonel of militia, and treasurer of Massachusetts. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Allen, whose claims to the New Hampshire patent he supported. In March, 1677, he acted in London as agent for Massachu- setts colony in the purchase of the title to the dis- trict of Maine from Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He was lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire from 1692 till 1697, and was reappointed in 1702.— John's great-great-grandson, John Palmer, secretary of the interior, b. in Brookfield, N. Y., 9 Jan., 1816; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 13 April, 1889, removed to Indiana, studied and practised law, was elected to the legislature, and was attorney-general of the state. He was appointed 1st assistant secretary of the interior on 20 March, 1862, and on the resigna- tion of Caleb B. Smith, succeeded him as head of the interior department on 8 Jan., 1863, holding the office till 15 May, 1865, when he resigned, and resumed the practice of his profession, becoming consulting attorney for the Union Pacific railroad.

USSHER, Brandram Boilean, Canadian R. E. bishop, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 6 Aug., 1845. He was educated at Delgany college, Wicklow, and in private schools. He early conceived a love for the study of medicine, but his father encountered finan- cial losses and his studies came to an abrupt close. He was sent to New York, where he abandoned business at the end of a year and began the study of medicine in Washington and subsequently at the University of Michigan. Ten years were passed in Aurora, 111., where he practised his profession. Hearing a sermon by Dwight L. Moody, he deter- mined to study for the ministry, and on 9 June, 1874, he was ordained deacon in Christ church, Chicago, by Bishop Cheney, of the Reformed Epis- copal church. Two years later he became presby- ter in Emmanuel church, Ottawa, Canada. In Canada he has held pastorates in Toronto and Montreal, where he has had charge of St. Bartholo- mew's church since 1878. He and his congregation withdrew from the jurisdiction of the Reformed Episcopal church in the United States and united their fortunes with the English branch of that body, otherwise called the Reformed church of England. The general synod in England elected Dr. Ussher to the episcopate, but he declined. Two years later he was re-elected, the Canadian synod choosing him as their bishop. On 19 June, 1882, he was consecrated in Trinity church, Southend, by Bishop Gregg and seven presbyters. He re- turned to Canada and assumed the duties of his large diocese, which includes Newfoundland.

USSIEUX, Jacques Gerard des (oos-se-uh), French naval officer, b. in Eu, Normandy, in 1719; d. in Port Royal, Martinique, in 1781. He was a captain in the merchant service, and during the war of 1756 he commanded privateers against the English, and defended the fortifications at the entrance of St. Lawrence river. After the conclusion of peace he entered the service of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who had obtained from Louis XV. a grant of the Falkland islands, carried emigrants there in 1764, and governed the colony during Bougainville's absence. After the retrocession of the Falkland archipelago to Spain in 1766, he was sent to make an exploration of the coast of Patagonia, and visited also the island of Georgia. At the beginning of the war of 1778 he again entered the royal navy as 1st lieutenant, and was appointed harbor-master of Port Royal. He Kublished "Histoire de la colonie fondee aux iles lalouines par le capitaine de Bougainville, suivie d'une description de la cote de la Patagonie, et d'une relation d'un voyage a File Saint Pierre et a la Terre des Etats" (Dieppe, 1768).