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Rh HENDRIX, Eugene Russell, M. E. bishop, b. in Fayette, Mo., 17 May, 1847. He was graduated at Wesleyan. and at l/nioii theological seminary. New York, in 1809, and after holding several pas- torates in the Methodist church, south, became in 1878 president of Central college, Fayette, Mo. In 1886 he was made a bishop. In 1878 he re- ceived the degree of D. D. from Emory college, Ga. Dr. Hendrix declined the vice-chancellorship of Vanderbilt university in 188o, and also the presidency of the University of Missouri. He was chairman of the committee to arrange for the cen- tennial celebration of organized American Meth- odism in behalf of the church, south, when $2,000,- 000 were raised as a thank-offering. He was a delegate to the cecumenical conference in London in 1881, and to the centennial conference in Balti- more in 1884, and a member of the general confer- ences of 1883 and 1886. He made a missionary tour of the world in 1876-'7 with Bishop Marvin of .St. I^uis, and on his return puhlishetl " Around the World " (Nashville, Tenn., 1878). HENNESSY, John Joseph, R. C. bishop, b. near Cloyne, Cork co., Ireland, 19 July, 1847. Ar- riving in the Inited States with his family when young, he received his classical education at the college of the Christian brothers at St. Louis, Mo., and grmhiated in 1803. He completed his theo- logical course at the Salesianuni, Milwaukee, at Cape Girardeau he made his philosophy, and re- turning to the Sidesianum in 1866. and having been a professor there, was ordained a priest in 1869 by dispenssation, being then under the canon- ical age. His first mission covered fen counties of Jlissouri, with his headquarters at Iron moun- tain, and he built a inimlwr of churches. In 1877 he cstalilished the I'rsulinc convent at Arcadia, in 1878 was app<>inte<l procurator and vice-presi- dent of the boaril of managers of the St. Louis protectory, and in February, 1880, he »uecec<led Archbishop Ryan as pastor of St. John's church, St. Louis. He founded a reformatory school at Glencoe. He was appointeil bishop of Wichita, Kan., ami was consecrated in November, 1888. '''HEPBURN. William Peter,''' congressman, b. in Wellsville. Columbiana co., Ohio, 4 Nov., 183.3. As a child he was taken by his family to Iowa, and sent to the schools of the then territory. He studied law. and was admitted to the bar, served during the civil war in the 3il Iowa cavalry, reach- ing the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a dele- gate to the Republican national conventions of 18<M) and 1888, and was a presidential clector-at- large for Iowa in 1876 and in 1888. He was sent to the 47th congress, and has been re-elected five times, receiving for the 55th congress 34.786 votes as against 23.960 votes for the candidate nominated by both the Democratic and Populist conventions. In September. 1899, Col. Hepburn delivered an exceedingly elo<)uent oration at the opening of the I'hiliidelphia export exposition. '''HERBERT. Hilary Abner''', statesman, b. at LHurensvillc, S. C., 12 March, 1834. When a schoolboy, he removed with his father's family to Greenville, Ala. In 1853 he entered the Univer- sity of Alabama, and on leaving it he went to the University of Virginia, and after a two years' course returned home, studied law, and was ad- mitted to the bar. When Alabama seceded, he joined the southern army in V'irginia as a captain in the 8th Alabama regiment. He was wounded and captured at the battle of Fair Oaks, having won the commission of major. Within two months he was exchanged and again entereil active service. In 1863 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 8th Alabama, and became colonel in 1864. In the battle of the Wilderness he was wounded, and was borne by his men from the field. Upon the surrender of Lee he resumed the practice of law at Greenville. In 1873 he removed to Montgomery, was elected to the 4oth congress in 1876, and was re-elected to the 47th congress and placed upon the ways and means committee. He was made chairman of the naval committee in the 49th con- gress, which position he filled until his appoint- ment as secretary of the navy, 4 March, 1893, ex- cept in the 51st congress, when Charles A. Bou- telle. Republican, was chairman, Mr. Herbert being first on the Democratic side. He now re- sides in Washington. In 1888 he wrote for a Democratic campaign book a history of the efl'orts to increase the navy. He also edited a volume, published two years later, entitled " Why the Solid South, or Reconstruction and its Results." HERBERT, Ivor Caradoc, British soldier, b. in Llanarth. Monmouth co.. England. 15 July. 1851. He entered the Grenadier guards, o Nov., 1870, and became colonel, 18 Aug., 1889, was brigade-major of the home district from 35 Feb. to 31 July. 1883, went to Egypt as brigade-major in August of that year, and later resumed his old post. In November, , he became commandant of the school for aux- iliary forces, Wellington barracks, and in April, , he accepted the post of military attache at St. Petersburg. He was present at the action of Maju- ba and at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 ; was mentioned in despatches, and received medal with clasp, bronze star, and onler of the Medjidie. In the Nile ex- pedition of 1884-'5 he was present at the action of Abu-Klea, with the guards' camel-corps, for which he received two clasps. In November, 1890, he was apfminted major-general commanding the militia of Canada, and introduced many reforms in that service, though several of his improvements were subje('te<l to harsh criticism. Gen. Herbert resigned, and returned to England in the autumn of 1X95. rejoining his regiment there. HERBERT OF LEA, Elizabeth. Baroness, philanthropist, b. in England about 1H25. She is the only daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Charles Ashe A'Court and niece of Lord Heytesbury. and on 12 Aug.. 1846. married .Sidney Herbert, second son of the eleventh earl of Pembroke. Her husband was created Baron Herbert of Lea, 15 Jan., 1801, held for some time the secretaryship of state for war, and died, 2 Aug., 1861. His elder brother died childless, and I^ady Herbert's eldest son, George Robert Charles, succeeded to the earldom of Pembroke in 1863. Lady Herbert has passed many years in the West Indies in philanthropic labors among the negroes, and came to this country in 1888 tie work among the colored people of the south, seeking their conversion to Roman Catholicism. — Her son. Michel Henry, b. 25 June, 1857, as attaelii ot the British legation at Washington, liecame acting minister in November. 1888. on the dismissal of Lord Sackville, and on the 27th of that month he married an American. HERDIC, Peter, inventor, b. near Fort Plain, N. Y., in 1824: d. in New York city. 3 March, 1888. He removed to Bradford county. Pa., when he was a youth, aided his mother in clearing a few acres of uncultivated land there, and in 1846 bought a tract of pine land in the forest of Lycoming county. Settling in Williamsport. he aided in increasing that town from 5,000 inhabitants to 35.000, became the owner of its sewers, gas-works, street-railways, bridges, and hotels, and at a cost of $80,000 erected Trinity church, which he gave to its congregation. He failed with large