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Rh waukee, and recommended Father Henni as bishop, on account of the large German immigration to Wisconsin. He was accordingly nominated and consecrated bishop by Archbishop Purcell, 19 March, 1844. There was only one frame church in Milwaukee when he arrived there. For the 8,000 Roman Catholics in the diocese there were but four priests. The bishop devoted himself energetically to remedy this state of things ; in less than three years he had increased the number of priests to thirty-four. St. Mary's church was opened in 1847, and in the same year he began the erection of a cathedral, and founded a hospital which he placed under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. In 1848 he went to Europe to visit the Eope, and also travelled through Germany. On is return he founded an orphan asylum and built the churches of Holy Trinity and St. Gall. In the mean while institutions were springing up in every direction under his initiative. He collected money in Cuba and Mexico for the completion of his ca- thedral, and was enabled to consecrate it on 31 July. 1853. In 1854 he began to build the semi- nary of St. Francis de Sales, or the " Salerianum." It was opened the following year under the direc- tion of Father Heiss (q. v.), the present archbishop of Milwaukee. Meanwhile the territory of Wis- consin had become a state, containing a Roman Catholic population of over 300,000, and in 1868 the dioceses of La Crosse and Green Bay were created out of the northern part of Wisconsin. Finally Milwaukee was created an archbishopric, and Bishop Henni was nominated archbishop. He received the pallium in July, 1875, but soon after- ward he began to decline in health. A visitation in 1879, in which he exerted himself beyond his strength, prostrated him, and he obtained a coad- jutor, 14 March, 1880, but he soon became too weak to perform any official dutv.

HENNINGSEN, Charles Frederick, soldier, b. in England in 1815; d. in Washington, D. C, 14 June, 1877. His parents were Swedes. He joined the Carlist army in Spain in 1834, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the peace convention he returned to England, but on the re- newal of the war resumed his post, and after the battle of Vielas de los Navarros was promoted colonel and given the command of the cavalry. He was afterward taken prisoner and released on pa- role. After serving in the Russian army in Cir- cassia, he joined Kossuth in the Hungarian revolu- tion, becoming military and civil commander of the fortress of Comorn. Afterward he came to the United States as a representative of Hungarian interests, and in October, 1856, joined William Walker in Nicaragua. He was immediately made a brigadier-general, given command of the artil- lery, and rendered efficient service, distinguishing himself by his defence of Granada, and in the vic- tory at Queresma. He took part in Walker's negotiations with Com. Davis in 1857, and after the surrender to that officer returned to the United States. At the beginning of the civil war he en- tered the Confederate army as colonel of the 3d regiment of Wise's brigade, and was afterward made brigadier-general, and served in Virginia. Gen. Henningsen was an able artillerist, and also gave much attention to improvements in small arms, superintending the construction of the first Minie rifles ever made in the United States. He published " Revelations of Russia " (Paris, 1845) ; "Twelve Months' Campaign with Zumalacarregui " ; "The White Slave," a novel ; " Eastern Europe " ; "Sixty Years Hence," a novel of Russian life; " Past and Future of Hungary"; "Analogies and Contrasts"; "Personal Recollections of Nicaragua"; and various other works, most of which were pub- lished in London.

HENRION, Nicolas, French scientist, b. in Montpellier in 1733; d. in Paris in October, 1793. He studied botany in Paris under Jussieu, and by his recommendation was sent in 1780 to South America to study the medicinal plants of Chili and Peru, and to bring to France some of the best specimens for acclimation in the Paris botanical gardens. He landed in Concepcion in October, 1780, and in two years he had collected over 1,500 of the plants of Chili. He crossed to Peru in 1783, but had scarcely arrived at Callao when the Asiatic cholera broke out there. He was at once appointed chief physician of the city, and, by thoroughly disinfecting every building and pulling down unhealthy houses, succeeded in abating the disease. He refused all rewards except letters of nobility that were granted to himself and his descendants. Having made a complete collection of the plants of Peru, Henrion was about to sail for France in 1785 with an herbarium numbering over 2,300 specimens, when the governor-general opposed his leaving, and offered him every inducement to make Peru his home, but without success. Henrion was then required to present to the Spanish government a complete memoir about the Peruvian mines of silver and sulphur, and was occupied in his investigation till 1787, when he was allowed to sail. In 1791 Henrion went to the United States by order of the French government to study the medicinal plants of the country. He had scarcely landed in Bordeaux, on his return in 1793, when he was arrested on suspicion of being a royalist, transported to Paris, and put to death. Henrion published &ldquo;Mémoire sur le cholera du Callao&rdquo; (Paris, 1788); &ldquo;Herbier expliqué des plantes du Chile&rdquo; (3 vols., 1788); &ldquo;Mémoire sur les mines d'argent et de sulphure du Pérou&rdquo; (1789); &ldquo;Herbier expliqué des plantes du Pérou&rdquo; (2 vols., 4to, 1790); and &ldquo;Plan de mineralogie du Pérou&rdquo; (1790).

HENRIQUEZ, Camilo (en-ree'-kayth). Chilian journalist, b. in Valdivia, 20 July, 1769 ; d. in Santiago, 17 March, 1825. He entered the monastic order of San Camilo de Lelis at Lima, and was prosecuted by the Inquisition for reading prohibited French works on philosophy, but was acquitted after a long trial. At the beginning of the Chilian revolution in 1810 Henriquez hurried to his country to offer his services, arriving in the beginning of 1811, and after the royalist mutiny of Figueroa on 1 April of that year, Father Henriquez patrolled the city to avoid further disorders. He was the first to sustain popular rights, both in the revolutionary paper " La Aurora and in the pulpit on 4 July, 1811. when the members of the 1st. congress attended divine service. After the defeat of Rancaguas in 1814, he emigrated to the Argentine Republic, and there continued his work for independence. He was graduated in the medical faculty of Buenos Ayres, and at the same time taught mathematics. In 1822 he returned to Chili by special invitation of the director, O'Higgins, and in the same year was elected deputy to the National convention, and chosen its secretary. He founded in Santiago the paper " El Mercurio de Chile." In May, 1875, Santiago erected to his memory a monument of white marble, surmounted by his bust. He published " Ensayo acerca de las causas de los succesos desastrosos de Chile" (Buenos Ayres, 1818) : a translation of " Bosquejo de la Democracia," and the dramas "Camila" and "Inocencia en el asilo de las virtudes."