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Rh of the Great Basin&rdquo; (1884); &ldquo;On the Development of Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe&rdquo; (1885); &ldquo;Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District&rdquo; (1885); and &ldquo;The Volcanic Rocks of Salvador&rdquo; (1886).

HAHN, Michael, politician, b. in Bavaria, 24 Nov., 1830; d. in Washington, D. C., 15 March, 1886. While he was an infant his parents removed to New York, and a few years later to New Orleans. He was graduated at the high-school of that city, and in the law department of the University of Louisiana in 1854. When twenty-two years of age he was elected school-director, served for several years, and at one time was president of the board. He was antagonistic to the Slidell wing of the Democratic party, opposed Mr. Buchanan for president in 1856, was a strong Douglas advocate, and a vehement anti-slavery agitator. In 1860-'1 he was a member of the committee that canvassed the state against secession, and he personally exerted all his influence to prevent disunion. Mr. Hahn's opponents charged that in 1861, with all public, state, and parish officers, he took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate government; but the official records show that he renewed his oath of office as notary, but omitted the oath of allegiance, and no public notice was taken of the omission. On the arrival of Admiral Farragut's fleet in New Orleans, 25 April, 1862, Mr. Hahn took the oath of allegiance to the United States, and represented the 2d congressional district of Louisiana in congress as a Republican, from 17 Feb. to 3 March, 1863. At the end of his term he returned to New Orleans, advocated the reopening of the Federal courts, and bought and edited the &ldquo;New Orleans True Delta,&rdquo; in which he advocated emancipation. In March, 1864, he was inaugurated governor of Louisiana. He possessed the full confidence of Mr. Lincoln, who wrote him a letter advising that the elective franchise be extended to the negro race, and granting him the additional powers of military governor. In 1865 he was chosen U. S. senator, but did not press his claim to his seat. In July, 1866, while present at the Mechanics' institute in New Orleans during the riot of that month, he was severely wounded. Mr. Hahn became the editor of the &ldquo;New Orleans Republican&rdquo; in 1867, and four years later removed to his sugar-plantation in St. Charles parish, where he built the village of Hahnville. He was a member of the legislature from 1872 till 1876, and in 1879 was elected district judge, which office he resigned in 1885, on his election to congress, where he was the only Republican member from his state.

HAIDT, John Valentine, artist and evangelist, b. in Dantzic, Germany, 4 Oct., 1700; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 18 Jan., 1780. He was educated at Berlin, where his father was court-jeweller. The son studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London. When he was forty years of age he united with the Moravian church and devoted himself to painting portraits of its clergymen and other pictures, the majority of which represented scriptural incidents. In 1754 he emigrated to America, was ordained a deacon of the church, and began to preach through the middle colonies as an evangelist, at the same time continuing to paint. A gallery of his portraits and several of his other pictures are still preserved at Bethlehem, Pa. Among the latter the most remarkable is a reduced copy of a large painting which he produced in Germany, representing the first converts of the various nations to which the Moravians brought the gospel, coming to the throne of Christ's glory.

Twelve of Haidt's paintings, setting forth incidents in the life of Jesus, which formerly adorned the walls of the first church-edifice at Bethlehem, were many years ago sold to a dealer, who realized enormous profits from them.

HAIGHT, Benjamin I., clergvman, b. in New York city, 16 Oct.. 1809; d. there, 21 Feb., 1879. He was graduated at Columbia in 1828. and at the General theological seminary of the Episcopal church in 1831. He was ordained deacon the same year, and priest in 1833. While in deacon's orders he was elected (1831) rector of St. Peter's church, New York, and in 1834 was called to St. Paul's, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1837 he was elected rector of All Saints', New York, and remained there until 1846. He was chosen professor of pastoral theology in the General theological seminary in 1837, and served the interests of the church in that chair until 1855. In the latter year Dr. Haight was elected an assistant minister of Trinity church, New York, and during the absence of the rector in 1874 held the office of assistant rector. He was a delegate from New York to the general conventions of 1868, 1871, and 1874. In 1873 Dr. Haight was elected bishop of Massachusetts, but declined on account of feeble health. He served as secretary of the Convention of New York for twenty years, and was a member of the standing committee of the diocese for ten years. He was elected a trustee of Columbia college in 1843, and gave much time and attention to the interests of that institution. Dr. Haight was an excellent speaker and debater, and exercised a wide influence in guiding the course of ecclesiastical affairs under anomalous and trying conditions. During the last two or three years of his life he suffered from impaired health caused by overtaxed energies. He published a few occasional sermons and addresses. — His son, Charles C, is an architect, and designed the new buildings of Colum- bia college and the General theological seminary.

HAIGHT, Henry Huntley, lawyer, b. in Rochester, N. Y., 20 May, 1825'; d. in San Fran- cisco, Cal., 2 Sept., 1878. His father, Fletcher M. Haight, was U. S. judge for the district of Califor- nia. The son was graduated at Yale in 1844, stud- ied law, and was admitted to the bar at St. Louis in October, 1846. He afterward removed to Cali- fornia, where he entered on the practice of his pro- fession in 1850. He was appointed U. S. district judge by President Lincoln, and in 1867 was elected governor by the Democratic party, remaining in office until 1871, when he was renominated, but defeated by Newton Booth. He then returned to the practice of law, and was a member-elect of the State constitutional convention.

HAINES, Daniel, governor of New Jersey, b. in New York city, 6 Jan., 1801 ; d. in Hamburg, Sussex co., N. J., 26 Jan., 1877. He was graduated at Princeton in 1820, studied law. was admitted to the bar in 1823, and settled at Hamburg in 1824. In 1837 he entered public life as a member of the council, and was one of the board of canvassers who resisted the governor in giving certificates of election to the Whig candidates in the famous "broad- seal" election. In 1843 he was elected governor, and while in office proclaimed the new constitution. His efforts during his one year's term of office left their impress on the common-schools and on the state normal-school, which had been projected by him. In 1847 he was again elected governor, and served for three years. He was afterward chosen a judge of the supreme court, where he served until 1861, and was during his tenure of office a member ex-officio of the court of error and appeals. From 1870 till 1876 he was a member of several judicial