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Rh , studying in the office of Felton and Parker, Charlestown, Mass., and in 1848-'9 had charge of the building of a railroad from Charlestown, N. H., to Windsor, Vt. In 1849 he was in charge of the construction of the Harvard branch railroad near Boston, after which he established an office in Boston, and was frequently called upon as an expert to decide on the work of others. Later he had charge of the laying out and filling up of new lands of the state of Massachusetts and Boston water-power company, now known as the Back-bay district in Boston. In 1865 he became professor of civil engineering in the Massachusetts institute of technology, where he remained until 1881. But meanwhile he continued his oversight of the laying out of streets and lots in the back bay. He wrote numerous poems, mathematical papers, and a &ldquo;Field-Book for Railway Engineers&rdquo; (New York, 1860).

HENDEE, Mrs., heroine, b. in 1754. When the Indians burned Royalton, Vt., in 1776, her husband, Joshua Hendee, was absent in a Vermont regiment, and she was at work in an adjacent field. The Indians entered her house, seized her children, and carried them across White river, where it was a hundred yards wide and too deep for fording. Mrs. Hendee dashed into the river, swam and waded through, and, entering the camp, regardless of the tomahawks that were flourished about her head, demanded her children's release, and persevered until her request was granted. She carried them across the stream, landed them in safety on the other bank, and, returning three times in succession, procured the release of fifteen children belonging to her neighbors. On her final return to the camp the Indians were so struck with her courage that one of them declared that so brave a squaw deserved to be carried across the stream, and taking her on his back swam with her to the place where the rescued children were awaiting her return. She was twenty-two years old when she performed this feat, and in 1818 she was living in Sharon, Vt., with her third husband, whose name was Mosher. It is thought that she removed to one of the western states about 1820.

HENDEL, William, clergyman, b. in the Palatinate, Germany, about 1730; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 29 Sept., 1798. After completing his theological studies, he removed to the United States in 1764 and became one of the pioneers of the German Reformed church in this country. Between 1769 and 1782 he was pastor of nine congregations at one time in the neighborhood of Lancaster, Pa., besides making several missionary tours. In 1794 he removed to Philadelphia, and during the yellow-fever epidemic of 1798 died of that disease. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1788.

HENDERSON, Archibald, soldier, b. in Vir- 5inia in 1785 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 6 Jan., 859. He was appointed lieutenant of marines, 4 June, 1806; captain in April, 1811 ; brevet major in 1814; lieutenant-colonel, 17 Oct., 1820; and colonel, 1 July, 1834. During the Florida war he commanded a battery of marines, was engaged in the skirmish on the Hatcheluskee, 27 Jan., 1837, and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious service while in command of the marines in Florida, Alabama, and in Tennessee, against the hostile Indians. 27 Jan., 1837.

HENDERSON, Jacob, clergyman, b. in Ireland about 1681 ; d. in Queen Anne parish, Md., 27 Aug., 1751. Having been admitted to holy orders by the Bishop of London in 1710, he was appointed to a mission at Dover, Kent co., Delaware, came to the United States, and was involved in an ecclesi- astical dispute with Gov. Robert Hunter, of Dela- ware. He returned to England in 1711, and in 1712 was appointed to the first Episcopal mission on the western shore of Maryland, in Queen Anne parish, Prince George co., and marrying the widow of a wealthy jurist and planter, Gabriel Duval, built a chapel near their residence. In 1716 he was appointed by the Bishop of London com- missary of the Church of England on the western shore of Maryland. In 1717 he became rector of the parish of St. Anne, and in 1729 was commissary of the entire colony. He visited England in 1737, was elected the first colonial member of the Society for the propagation of the gospel, and obtained liberal donations in its interests. He bequeathed all his property to this society.

HENDERSON, James Alexander, lawyer, b. in Stoke, Devonshire, England, in February, 1821. He came to Canada in 1835, and completed his educational course at Upper Canada college. He was admitted to the bar of Ontario in 1843, and has practised at Kingston ever since. He first entered into a partnership with the late Sir Henry Smith, which continued until the death of the lat- ter in 1868, and has been a master in chancery since 1851. He was appointed chancellor of the diocese of Ontario in 1862, and is a member of the council of Trinity college, Toronto, which, in 1863, conferred upon him the degree of D. C. L.

HENDERSON, John, U. S. senator, b. in a northern state in 1795 ; d. in Pass Christian, Miss., in 1857. He removed to Mississippi in early man- hood, and began the practice of law in Woodville, • Wilkinson co., about 1820. In 1835 he served in the state legislature, and was the author of the resolutions impeaching the validity of the laws, that admitted members to the legislature from the counties that had been newly formed out of Indian cessions. In 1849 he was elected to the U. S. senate as a W'hig. At the expiration of his term he allied himself with the politicians of the extreme southern school, favored the annexation of Texas, the conquest of Cuba and Mexico, and was con- nected wirh Gen. John A. Quitman in his schemes regarding those enterprises. In 1851 he was ar- rested with Gen. Quitman, and tried before the U. S. district court at New Orleans for violating the neutrality laws of 1818 by his complicity with the Lopez expedition against Cuba. He was ac- quitted, but afterward retired from public life.

HENDERSON, John Brooks, senator, b. near Danville, Va., 16 Nov., 1826. He removed with his parents to Missouri in 1836. spent his early years on a farm, and taught while receiving his education. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and in that year and 1856 was elected to the legislature, originating the state railroad and banking laws in 1857. He was a presidential elector in 1856 and 1860, and opposed Pierce's administration after the president's message on the Kansas question. Mr. Henderson was a delegate to the Charleston Democratic convention of 1860, and to the State convention of 1861 to determine whether Missouri should secede. In June. 1861, he equipped a regiment of state militia, which he commanded for a time. On the expulsion of Trusten Polk from the U. S. Senate, in 1862, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, and in 1863 was elected for the full term ending in 1869, serving as chairman on the committee on Indian affairs. He was one of the seven Republican senators whose votes defeated the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He was a commissioner to treat with hostile tribes of Indians in 1867, and in 1875 was appointed assistant U. S. district attorney to prosecute men that were accused of evad-