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Rh National academy of design, New York, of which he is an honorary member. He is one of the best American portrait-painters of the French school. His style is vigorous and characteristic, but has been criticised as lacking delicacy and not always happy in coloring. — His daughter, Mary, is the author of " Lakeville " (New York, 1871), " Storm- Driven " (Philadelphia, 1876), and other novels.

HEALY, James Augustine, R. C. bishop, b. near Macon, Ga., in 1830. At an early age he came to the northern states and studied in Quaker schools in Long Island and New Jersey. He after- ward became a student in Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass., where he was graduated in 1849. He began his theological studies in the Sulpitian seminary of Montreal, and completed them in that of Paris. After his ordination he began mission- ary work in the diocese of Boston. He was after- ward appointed chancellor of the diocese and sec- retary to the bishop, and was stationed at the cathedral. He next held the post of pastor of St. James's church, Boston, where he remained nine years. He was consecrated bishop of Portland, 2 June, 1875. From 1875 till 1884 over thirty new churches were built in his diocese, and the number of the clergy increased from fifty-two to eighty- nine. There has been a large immigration of French Canadians into his diocese, for whose wants he obtained French priests. He has founded va- rious convents. In 1884 his diocese was divided, the state of New Hampshire being erected into the see of Manchester, while that of Maine continued to constitute the see of Portland.

HEALY, John Plummer, lawyer, b. in Wash- ington, Sullivan co., N. H., 28 Dec, 1810; d. in Boston, Mass., 4 Jan., 1882. His father, Joseph, was a representative in congress from 1825 till 1829, and a friend of Daniel Webster. The son was graduated at Dartmouth in 1835, supporting himself while in college by teaching. He then en- tered the office of Daniel Webster in Boston, won his confidence and friendship, and as soon as he had completed his studies became the law partner of the latter, which relation was maintained till Mr. Webster's death. During the incumbency of his partner as secretary of state Mr. Healy was offered the chief justiceship of California, but de- clined. In 1840 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature, serving several terms, and in 1854 he entered the state senate. He declined sev- eral times the post of chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts. From 1856 till the close of his life he was solicitor of the city of Boston. HEAP, Crwynn Harris, diplomatist, b. in Ches- ter, Pa., 23 March, 1817 ; d. in Constantinople, Tur- key, 6 March, 1887. His great-grandfather, George, was sent by the British government to Pennsylva- nia as surveyor-general. One of the earliest maps of Philadelphia was made by him, and is pre- served in the Pennsylvania library in that city. In 1839-40 Gwynn served as vice and acting consul in Tunis, where his father had been appointed consul in 1825. He was appointed a government clerk in Washington, D. C, in 1846, and in 1855-'7 was em- ployed by the war department in Turkey in the purchase of camels. In 1861, being then a clerk m the navy department, he volunteered for secret service at Pensacola, Fla., and in 1863-4 had charge of the pilots of Admiral Porter's squadron on the Mississippi. He was appointed consul at Belfast, Ireland, in 1866, and the following year sent to Tunis as consul, where he remained until 1878. In that year he was made secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople, occasionally serving as charge d'affaires. During his official residence in Tunis he organized the department devoted to that country in the Centennial exhibi- tion at Philadelphia in 1876. Mr. Heap compiled " A Synoptical Index to the Statutes at Large " (1849-50), and is the author of " Exploration of the Central Route to the Pacific " (Philadelphia, 1853) and " Itinerary of the Central Route to the Pacific" (1854). — His son, David Porter, engi- neer, b. in San Stefano, Turkey, 24 March, 1843, was educated at Georgetown college, D. C, and at the U. S. military academy, where he was gradu- ated in 1864. He was assigned to the engineer corps, served in the civil war in the Army of the Potomac, and was brevetted captain, 2 April, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services." He was promoted captain, 7 March, 1867, and major of engineers, 23 June, 1882. Since the war he has been engaged in the construction of fortifications, the improvement of harbors, and other duties. In 1871 he was engaged in the exploration of the re- gion afterward known as the Yellowstone park, and in 1876 had charge of the engineering section of the war department exhibit at the Philadelphia centennial exhibition. In 1881 he was ordered on detached service as military representative of the United States at the Paris congress of electricians, and honorary commissioner to the Paris electrical exhibition. Maj. Heap has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. He is the author of a " History of the Application of the Electric Light to Lighting the Coasts of France " (Washington, D. C, 1883) ; " Report of Engineer Department of the Philadelphia Exhibi- tion " (1884) ; " Electrical Appliances of the Pres- ent Day " (New York, 1884) ; and " Ancient and Modern Lights " (Boston, 1887).

HEARD, Franklin Fiske, jurist, b. in Wayland, Middlesex co., Mass., 17 Jan., 1825. He was graduated at Harvard in 1848, studied law in the office of Chief-Justice Edward Mellen, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. After practising for five years in Middlesex county, he removed to Boston, and acquired a reputation as an authority on pleading. From 1861 till 1866 he was associated with George P. Sawyer in the editorship of the " Monthly Law Reporter." He revised Davis's " Criminal Justice " (Boston, 1853) ; prepared, with the assistance of Charles R. Train, a standard work on " Precedents of Indictments, Special Pleas, etc., Adapted to American Practice" (1855) ; contributed to the third edition of " Greenleaf on Evidence " the chapter on criminal law (1856) ; and published, in conjunction with Edmund H. Bennett, '• A Selection of Leading Cases in Criminal Law " (1856). His other publications include " Libel and Slander " (1860) : " Digest of the Massachusetts Reports," with Edmund H. Bennett (1862-'3); an edition of " Stephen on Pleading " (Philadelphia, 1867) ; standard works on " Criminal Pleading " (Boston, 1879), and "Civil Pleading" (1880); a reprint of the " Star Chamber Cases, with an Introduction " (1881) ; also an edition of " The Reporters," by John W. Wallace (1882) ; and the " Heard on Equity Pleading " (1882) ; " Curtis's Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States," edited (1882). His other works on legal subjects are " Heard on Criminal Law " (2d ed., 1882) ; " Acts and Resolves, General and Special, of Massachusetts" (1882-'3); "Precedents of Equity Pleadings" (1884); an American edition of "Seton on Decrees " (1884) ; " Precedents of Pleadings in Personal Actions in the Superior Courts of Common Law" (1886); and an edition of "Gould on Pleading " (Albany, 1887). Mr. Heard has contributed to general literature an edition of Bacon's "Es-