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154 says " (Boston, 1867) ; " Curiosities of the Law Re- porters " (1871) ; " Oddities of the Law " (1881) ; and "Shakespeare as a Lawyer " (1883).

HEARD, Thomas Jefferson, physician, b. in Morgan county, Ga., 14 May, 1814. He studied medicine at Transylvania university, and began practice in Washington, Texas, in 1837. He re- ceived the degree of M. D. from the University of Louisiana in 1845. In 1857 he removed to Galves- ton. He exerted his influence to modify the treat- ment of malarial fevers in the southwest, and introduced into Texas the treatment by quinine, opiates, ammonia, and salts, in the place of bleed- ing, purgatives, and mercury. In 1868 he con- tributed to the " Transactions " of the American medical association a paper on " The Epidemics, Topography, and Climatology of Texas," contain- ing observations on the yellow fever, and in 1869 a more general article on epidemics and climatol- ogy. He held the chair of the theory and prac- tice of medicine in the Galveston medical school in 1866, and that of materia medica and thera- peutics in the University of Louisiana in 1876, but resigned his chair in each of these colleges after de- livering a single course of lectures. He was active in organizing the Texas medical association, and was its first president.

HEARNE, Saninel, English explorer, b. in London in 1745 ; d. in 1792. In early life he served as a midshipman under Hood, and after the seven years' war he entered the employment of the Hudson bay company, and made several jour- neys in northern British America in quest of a northwest passage and of mines of the precious metals. He started on an expedition to the north on 15 July, 1771, reached the Coppermine river after a journey of nearly 1,300 miles on foot, and descended it to the Arctic ocean. He returned to the Prince of Wales's fort on 30 June, 1772, after nearly perishing from starvation. He established Cumberland factory in 1774, was made governor of the Prince of Wales's Fort in 1775, and was made prisoner by La Perouse when the fort was captured in 1782. He returned to England in 1787. He published "Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean ; undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a Northwest Passage, etc." (London, 1795).

HEARST, George, senator, b. in Franklin county, Mo., 3 Sept., 1820 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 28 Feb., 1891. He was graduated in 1838, worked on his father's farm in his youth, and in 1850 went to California overland, and engaged in mining. He became chief partner in the firm of Hearst, Hag- gin, Tevis and Co., which gained large profits by speculating in mining claims, and grew to be the largest private firm of mine-owners in the United States. He acquired the reputation of being the most expert prospector and judge of mining property on the Pacific coast, and contributed to the development of the modern processes of quartz and other kinds of mining. He aiso en- gaged largely in stock-raising and farming, and became the proprietor of the San Francisco " Ex- aminer." He was a member of the California legislature in 1865, received the vote of the Demo- cratic minority in the legislature for U. S. sena- tor in 1885, and on 23 March, 1886, was appointed by Gov. Stoneman to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John F. Miller, took his seat in the U. S. senate on 9 April, 1886, but the legislature, on 4 Aug., elected A. P. Williams, a Republican. When the legislature met in January, 1887, Hearst was elected senator for the succeeding term.

HEATH, Lyman, song-writer, b. in Bow, N. H., 24 Aug., 1804; d. in Nashua, N. II.. :! June, 1870. He lived in his youth at Lyman, Vt., and subsequently at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and Littleton, N. H., and for the last thirty years of his life at Nashua. He became a teacher of mu- sic at the age of twenty-one, and gave concerts for many years. He was the composer of "The Grave of Bonaparte," "The Burial of Mrs. Jud- son," and many other popular songs.

HEATH, William, soldier, b. in Roxbury, Mass., 7 March, 1737 ; d. there, 24 Jan., 1814. He was brought up on the same farm on which his ancestor settled in 1636. He was active in organ- izing the militia before the Revolution, was a cap- tain in the Suffolk regiment, of which he after- ward became colonel, joined the artillery company of Boston, and was chosen its commander in 1770, in which year he wrote a series of essays in a Bos- ton newspaper on the importance of military dis- cipline and skill in the use of arms over the signature " A Military Countryman." He was a representative in the general assembly in 1761, and again in 1771-'4, a member of the committees of correspondence and safety, and of the Provin- cial congress in 1774-'5. He was appointed a pro- vincial brigadier-general on 8 Dec, 1774, performed valuable services in the pursuit of the British troops from Concord on 19 April, 1775, organized and trained the undisciplined forces at Cambridge before the battle of Bunker Hill, was made a ma- jor-general of provincial troops on 20 June, 1775, and upon the organization of the Continental army was, on 22 June, commissioned as a briga- dier-general, and stationed with his command at Roxbury. On 9 Aug., 1776, he was made a major- general in the Continental army. In March, 1776, he was ordered to New York, and opposed the evacuation of the city. After the battle of White Plains he took command of the posts in the High- lands. In 1777 he was assigned to the command of the eastern department, embracing Boston and its vicinity, and had charge of the prisoners of Burgoyne's army at Cambridge. In June, 1779, he was ordered to the command of the posts on the Hudson, with four regiments, and remained in that vicinity till the close of the war, going to Rhode Island for a short period on the arrival, of the French forces in July, 1780. He returned to his farm after the war, was a member of the convention that ratified the Federal constitu- tion, a state senator in 1791-2, probate judge of Norfolk county in 1793, and was elected lieuten- ant-governor in 1806, but declined the office. He was the last surviving major-general of the Revolu- tionary army, and published " Memoirs of Major- General William Heath, containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, etc., during the American War" (Boston, 1798).

HEATHCOTE, Caleb, merchant, b. in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, 6 March, 1665 : d. in New York city, 28 Feb., 1721. He came to New York in 1691 with the means of entering on a mercantile life, in which he was successful. He was appointed by King William a councillor of the province in 1692, and remained in office, with the exception of those years, 1698-1701, all his life. He was the organizer of the borough town of Westchester, and its first mayor, and the first judge of the county of Westchester, and colonel of its militia also, during his life. He originated the first movement for the erection of an Anglican church in the city of New York, and aided in obtaining for it a charter of incorporation by forming in 1695 " The Managers of the Church of England," of which he was