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Rh was a professor in Miami university at the time of her birth, and afterward became president of the seminary in Oxford. She was graduated at the seminary in 1852. the same year that Gen. Harrison took his degree at the university, and was married to him on 20 Oct., 1853. She is a musician, and is also devoted to painting, besides which she is a diligent reader, giving part of her time to literary clubs, of several of which she is a member. Mrs. Harrison is a manager of the orphan asylum in Indianapolis and a member of the Presbyterian church in that city, and until her removal to Wash- ington taught a class in Sunday-school. They have two children. The son, Russell, was graduated at Lafayette in 1877 as a mining engineer, and, in addition to other engineering work, has been con- nected with the U. S. mints at New Orleans and Helena as assayer. He is now a resident of Mon- tana, where he has a cattle-ranch, and is also en- gaged in journalism. The daughter, Mary, married Robert J. McKee, a merchant of Indianapolis.

HARTLEY, Robert Milham, philanthropist, b. in Cockermouth, England, 17 Feb., 1796; d. in New York city, 3 March, 1881. He was a nephew of David Hartley (vol. iii., p. 104). He came to this country in infancy and became a merchant in New York city, but in 1829 he founded the New York city temperance society, and in 1833-'42 held its secretaryship. In 1842 he originated the New York association for improving the condition of the poor, remaining with it thirty-five years, and issuing 34 octavo volumes of reports. Various charitable institutions in New York had their origin in him. Besides numerous contributions to the press, he published " Historical, Scientific, and Practical Essay on Milk " (New York, (1841), and "Intemperance in Cities and Large Towns" (1851). — His son, Isaac Smithson, clergyman, b. in New York city, 27 Sept., 1830, was graduated at New York university in 1852 and at Andover theological seminary in 1856, and after extensive travels became pastor of the Union Reformed Dutch church, New York city, in 1863. Seven years later he removed to Philadelphia to become a pastor in that city, and in 1871 he accepted the Eastorate of the Reformed church at Utiea, N. Y. le received in 1873 from Rutgers the degree of D. D., and the same year founded at that college the Vedder lectureship on modern infidelity, and published under its auspices " Prayer and its Rela- tion to Modern Thought and Criticism " (New York, 1874). His other works are " History of the Re- formed Church, Utica, N. Y. *» (1880); " Memorial of Rev. Philip H. Fowler, D. D. " (New York, 1881) : " Memorial of Robert Milham Hartley " (Utica, 1881); " Old Fort Schuyler in History " (1884); and m The Twelve Gates," poems (Utica, 1887).

HASKELL, James Richards, inventor, b. in Geneva, N. Y., 17 Sept., 1825. He was educated at Richfield (Ohio) academy, and at the preparatory de- partment of Western Reserve college. He was as- sistant postmaster of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1849-'53, and then engaged unsuccessfully in business in New York. In 1854 he began a series of experi- ments with steel breech-loading rifled cannon and breech-loading small-arms, manufacturing twenty- five of the former, which were purchased by the Mexican government, and were the first of the de- scription that were made in the United States. In 1855 he began experimenting with multicharge guns in association with Azel S. Lyman, who first conceived the idea of applying successive charges of powder to accelerate the velocity of a projectile. In 1885 congress appropriated funds in order to test these guns, but the bureau of ordnance op- Eosed such action. Mr. Haskell's experiments ave cost more than $300,000, and the system is now completed, so that the power of these guns is more than doubled, and at the same time the maximum pressure used is less than that in other guns. In 1862, with Rafael Rafael, he invented and constructed a machine gun for very rapid fir- ing, but, notwithstanding a favorable report on it by a board of army officers, the authorities refused to adopt it. Mr. Haskell is a member of the Ameri- can association for the advancement of science, and has written several pamphlets on national arma- ment and on ordnance problems.

HENDRIX, Eugene Russell, M. E. bishop, b. in Fayette, Mo., 17 May, 1847. He was gradu- ated at Wesleyan in 1867, and at Union theologi- cal seminary, New York, in 1869, and after holding several pastorates in the Methodist church, south, became in 1878 president of Central college, Fay- ette, Mo. In 1886 he was made a bishop. In 1878 he received the degree of D. D. from Emory col- lege, Ga. Dr. Hendrix declined the vice-chancellor- ship of Vanderbilt university in 1885, and also the g residency of the University of Missouri. Bishop [endrix was chairman of the committee to arrange for the centennial celebration of organized Ameri- can Methodism in behalf of the church, south, when $2,000,000 were raised as a thank-offering. He was a delegate to the oecumenical conference in London in 1881 and to the centennial conference in Balti- more in 1884, and a member of the general confer- ences of 1882 and 1886. He made a missionary tour of the world in 1876-7 with Bishop Marvin, of St. Louis, and on his return published "Around the World " (Nashville, Tenn., 1878). In 1876-'8 he was an editor of the St. Louis " Christian Advocate."

HENNESSY, John Joseph, R. C. bishop, b. near Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 19 July, 1847. He came to the United States in his youth, was graduated at the College of the Christian Brothers, St. Louis, Mo., in 1862, and pursued theological studies in the Seminary of St. Francis de Sales, Milwaukee, Wis. After his ordination he was rector of Iron Mountain, Mo., in 1870-80, and then of the cathedral of St. Louis. He was appointed bishop of Wichita, Kan., on 28 Aug., 1888, and conse- crated on 30 Nov.

HERBERT OF LEA, Elizabeth, Baroness, philanthropist, b. in England about 1825. She is the only daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Charles Ashe A'Court", and niece of Lord Heytesbury, and on 12 Aug., 1846, married Sidney Herbert, second son of the 11th Earl of Pembroke. Her husband was created Baron Herbert of Lea, 15 Jan., 1861, held for some time the secretaryship of state for war, and died, 2 Aug., 1861. His elder brother died childless, and Lady Herbert's eldest son, George Robert Charles, succeeded to the earldom of Pem- broke in 1862. Lady Herbert has passed many years in the West Indies in philanthropic labors among the negroes, and came to this country in 1888 to work among the colored people of the, south, seeking their conversion to Roman Catholi- cism. She purposes to erect an orphanage in Baltimore. — Her son, Michel Henry, b. 25 June, 1857, as attache of the British legation at Wash- ington, became acting minister in November, 1888, on the dismissal of Lord Sackville, and on the 27th of that month married an American.

HILLERN, Bertha von, artist, b. in Treves, Germany, 4 Aug., 1857. She came to this country in 1877, and for two years devoted her time to ad- vocating athletic exercises for women, appearing in public as a pedestrian. She then devoted herself to the study of art, which she has since pur-