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312 England, in 1634, with his wife, Lady Susan, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and a family of six children, and settled in Swampscott. He was an assistant from 1632 till 1641, and first major-general of the colony in 1641. He laid out the bounds of the town of Ipswich with Capt. Na- thaniel Turner and John Cogswell in 1636. On 26 Oct., 1641, he returned to England.

HUMMING-BIRD, Indian chief, b. in Tennessee in 1742; d. in Nashville, Tenn., 23 Dec., 1827. He was friendly with the settlers, and their ally in many difficulties with the Indians. In the campaigns of Gen. Anthony Wayne and Gen. Charles Scott in 1794 against the northwestern tribes, he led a company of sixty friendly warriors, and also distinguished himself in the war against the Creeks and the British. His commission and a silver medal that he received from Gen. Washington were, by his request, buried with him.

HUMPHREY, Elizabeth B., artist, b. in Hopedale, Mass., about 1850. She was a pupil at the Cooper school of design, of Worthington Whittredge, and Dr. William Rimmer, and her professional life has been devoted chiefly to designing illustrations. She made some excellent sketches and paintings during a trip to California. In 1882 Miss Humphrey was awarded two prizes in the competitive exhibition of L. Prang and Co. Her illustrations include landscapes, still-life, and figures.

HUMPHREY, Heman, clergyman, b. in West Simsbury, Conn., 26 March, 1779 ; d. in Pittsfield, Mass., 3 April, 1861. He taught to enable him to attend college, and was graduated at Yale in 1805. After studying theology under Timothy Dwight, he was pastor of the Congregational church at Fairfield, Conn.,in 1807-'17,in Pittsfield in 1817-'23,and president of Amherst in 1823-'45. Taking charge of that institution in its infancy, he contributed largely to its growth and prosperity, and impressed upon it much of his own character. He was one of the pioneers of the temperance reform in 1810, preached six sermons on intemperance, and in 1813 drew up a report to the Fairfield association of ministers, which is believed to be the first temperance tract that was published in the United States. Among the most celebrated of his tracts on this subject is his " Parallel between Intemperance and the Slave-Trade," which was also a formidable indictment of slavery. For fifty years he was a constant contributor to periodicals and literary journals. Middlebury gave him the degree of D. D. in 1823. He published " Essays on the Sabbath " (New York, 1830) ; " Tour in France, Great Britain, and Belgium " (1838) ; " Domestic Education " (Amherst, 1840) ; " Letters to a Son in the Ministry " (New York, 1842); "Life and Writings of Prof. Nathan W. Fiske " (1850) ; " Life and Writings of Thomas S. Gallaudet " (1857) ; and " Sketches and History of Revivals" (1859). — His son, Edward Porter, clergyman, b. in Fairfield, Conn., 28 Jan., 1809, was graduated at Amherst in 1828, and at the Andover theological seminary in 1833. He was tutor in Amherst in 1832-'3, ordained to the ministry in 1834, and for the next two years was pastor in Jefferson, Ind., and was called to the 2d Presbyterian church in Louisville, Ky., in 1836. He resigned this charge in 1853 to become professor of ecclesiastical history in the Presbyterian theological seminary in Danville, Ky., and remained there till 1866, when he became pastor of a Presbyterian church in Louisville. Since 1879 he has been pastor emeritus. In 1861 he was associate editor of the " Danville Review." — Another son, James, lawyer, b. in Fairfield, Conn., 9 Oct., 1811; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 June, 1866, was graduated at Amherst in 1831, studied law, and practised in Louisville, Ky., and afterward in New York city, lie removed to Brooklyn in 1848, was corporation counsel in 1850-'l, and in 1858 was elected to congress as a Republican. He served as a member of the committee on foreign affairs and the select committee on the seceding states. He was defeated for congress in 1860 and in 1862, but was re-elected in 1864, and was chairman of the committee on expenditures in the naval department.

HUMPHREY, Herman Loin, congressman, b. in Candor, Tioga co., N. Y., 14 March, 1830. He was educated in the public schools, and at sixteen became a merchant's clerk in Ithaca, N. Y. After several years in business he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and the next year removed to Hudson, Wis., where he practised his profession, and soon afterward became district attorney for Saint Croix county. He was appointed county judge to fill a vacancy in 1860, elected to the full term the next year, was state senator in 1862, and a strong advocate of the administration of President Lincoln. He was judge of the 8th judicial district of Wisconsin in 1866-'77, and resigned to take his seat in congress as a Republican, serving from October, 1877, till 1883. In 1886 he was elected to the legislature.

HUMPHREY, James, printer, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1747; d. there, 10 Feb., 1810. After receiving a liberal education he studied medicine, but afterward learned the printing business with William Bradford, and in January, 1775, began the publication of the " Ledger, or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey Weekly Advertiser." He held for a time the office of clerk to the orphans' court of Philadelphia, and, when called upon to take up arms in defence of the colony, declined to do so, pleading the obligation of his oath of allegiance to the crown, which he had taken to qualify himself for this office. He came to be regarded a Tory, and his paper was denounced. In November, 1776, its publication was suspended until the British occupied the city, when, on 10 Oct., 1777, it again appeared, this time with the royal arms at its head. When the British evacuated the city, Humphrey made his exit, and, after remaining in New York for a short time, sailed for England, and thence to Nova Scotia, where he opened a printing-house and issued the "Nova Scotia Packet." This enterprise not proving a success, he sold the paper, and, after engaging in mercantile business until 1797, established a publishing-house in Philadelphia.

HUMPHREYS, David, poet, b. in Derby, Conn., 10 Julv, 1752; d. in New Haven, Conn., 21 Feb., 1818. He was the son of the Rev. Daniel Humphreys, a Congregational clergyman. After graduation at Yale in 1771, he entered the army under Gen. Samuel H. Parsons at the beginning of the Revolution with the rank of captain. He was attached to the staff of Gen. Putnam in 1778, and in 1780 was appointed aide-de-camp to Washington, which place he retained until the close of hostilities. At the siege of Yorktown he particularly distinguished himself, and was voted an elegant sword by congress for his gallantry. While in the army he wrote, with Joel Barlow and Timothy Dwight, stirring lyrics that were designed to stimulate and encourage the ranks. On the disbanding of the troops, Col. Humphreys accompanied Washington to Mount Vernon, and remained a member of his family for nearly a year. It was owing to the influence of this patron that he was appointed in 1784 secretary of legation to Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, who were sent